Overall cardiovascular health score less than optimal for U.S. adults
Jun 29, 2022
Significant differences in mean overall CVH scores were based on Life’s Essential 8 by sex, age and racial/ethnic group.
Approach for assessing cardiovascular health enhanced
Jun 29, 2022
Life’s Essential 8 updates many of the metrics from Life’s Simple 7 and adds new metric for sleep duration.
Data elements, definitions for COVID-19 complications detailed
Jun 27, 2022
The clinical lexicon presents data elements related to cardiovascular and noncardiovascular complications of COVID-19.
More sitting time tied to mortality, CVD in both rich, poor countries
Jun 17, 2022
The association was seen across countries at all economic levels but particularly among low- and lower-middle-income countries.
Older adults more likely to have multiple ailments compared with prior generations
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Amy Novotney
Jun 14, 2022
Later-born generations of older adults in the United States are more likely to have a greater number of chronic health conditions than the generations that preceded them, according to a study conducted...
Height may impact risk for disease
Jun 03, 2022
Novel associations were seen for venous circulatory disorders and peripheral neuropathy in the presence and absence of diabetes.
Metformin, lifestyle changes cut risk for T2DM, but not CVD
May 27, 2022
No reduction seen in first occurrence of nonfatal MI, stroke, or CV death with either metformin or lifestyle intervention versus placebo
High AI-ECG-AF risk score tied to worse cognition, cognitive decline
May 11, 2022
A high probability of atrial fibrillation by AI-ECG-AF score correlated with cerebral infarcts on MRI.
Text message intervention does not up meds adherence after heart attack
May 09, 2022
The intervention was associated with small improvements in BMI <25 kg/m2 and eating at least five vegetables and two fruits/day.
Ten-year mortality, recurrence rates decreasing after acute MI
May 04, 2022
Mortality and recurrence risks were lower for patients hospitalized in 2007 to 2009 versus those hospitalized in 1995 to 1997.