Psychological illness, CVD risk increased for relatives, spouses of cancer patients
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Haymarket Media
Sep 09, 2024
An increased risk for developing a psychological illness or cardiovascular disease at one year was seen after family member’s cancer diagnosis.
Inflammation, cholesterol, lipoprotein(a) predict 30-year cardiovascular outcomes in women
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Haymarket Media
Sep 03, 2024
The authors say that the findings call for primary prevention strategies to extend beyond traditional 10-year estimates.
Women undergoing CABG more likely to get care at low-quality hospitals
Jul 29, 2024
More than fourfold higher mortality was seen for women Medicare beneficiaries receiving coronary artery bypass grafting at low-quality hospitals than male beneficiaries at high-quality hospitals.
Heart surgery patients may not need opioids at home
Dec 27, 2021
Older age, longer length of hospital stay and undergoing surgery during the past three months of the study were independent predictors of discharge without an opioid prescription.
Social isolation, loneliness up risk of new CVD in older women
Feb 03, 2022
The findings were independent of each other, with an even stronger effect seen for women with high levels of social isolation and loneliness.
Individual a-fib episodes tied to recent alcohol intake
Aug 31, 2021
Individual atrial fibrillation (AF) episodes are associated with increased odds of recent alcohol consumption, according to a study published online Aug. 31 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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.
Hypertension while lying down tied to worse cardiovascular disease outcomes
Sep 13, 2023
Findings seen regardless of whether hypertension persists in seated position
More than one in four adults with cardiovascular disease currently smoke
Jun 11, 2021
From wave 1 to 4 of PATH, a <5% decrease was seen in cigarette use and a 0.5% increase was found in e-cigarette use.
Replacing sitting for a few minutes of activity each day shows health benefits
Dec 13, 2023
30 extra minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was tied to drops in body mass index.