Cardiovascular

Research Highlights:

• After surviving a heart attack, the proportion of patients experiencing a repeat attack within a year fell between 2008 and 2017, with the greatest decline in women.
• Despite the improvement, the rate of recurrent heart attacks, or artery-opening procedures, heart failure hospitalizations […]
  

DALLAS y ARLINGTON, VA., 21 de sept. del 2020 — Una nueva campaña educativa de la American Heart Association y la American Diabetes Association busca aumentar el conocimiento y la acción entre las personas con diabetes tipo 2 cuyo idioma principal es el español con el fin de enfatizar el vínculo entre […]

DALLAS and ARLINGTON, VA., Sept. 21, 2020 — A new education campaign from the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association aims to increase awareness and action among Spanish language-dominant people with type 2 diabetes to underscore the link between type 2 diabetes and heart disease and stroke. The announcement comes during […]

Research Highlights:

• Researchers in Finland found a link between smoking and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a type of bleeding stroke, in a study of more than 16,000 pairs of twins over 42 years.
• The study found that bleeding in the brain can be explained to […]
  

Research Highlights:

• Middle-aged adults who didn’t have high blood pressure and had positive health factors, as identified by the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 scale, were less likely to develop high blood pressure years later.
• Each one-point increase in the Life’s Simple 7 […]
  

Research Highlights:

• An analysis of more than 26,000 heart transplant patients found that recipients of hearts from donors with severe obesity had similar post-transplant outcomes to recipients with non-obese donors.
• Nearly 40% of U.S. adults are obese, and the prevalence of severe obesity has […]
  

Statement Highlights:

• Arrhythmias are irregular heartbeats and can be caused by a variety of factors, such as genetics, heart disease, high blood pressure or electrolyte imbalances.
• Many commonly used medications, including over-the-counter medicines, can cause or worsen arrhythmias.
• Health care professionals should consider that a […]
  

Research Highlights:

• Biologic therapy for psoriasis – protein-based infusions to suppress inflammation – was associated with a significant reduction in high-risk plaque in heart arteries, over one-year, according to new research.
• The positive association between biologic therapy and a decrease in high-risk plaque in […]
  

Research Highlights from three separate studies:

• Low blood pressure, or hypotension, in COVID-19 patients with a history of hypertension appears to be a risk factor for kidney damage and death.
• Reducing hypertension medications if and when COVID-19 patients become hypotensive could prevent acute kidney […]
  

Research Highlights:

• Results of a survey show that some health care professionals are not following evidence-based guidelines, potentially leading to under and overdiagnosis of hypertension.
• 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and home blood pressure monitoring are recommended before diagnosing hypertension; however, most health care […]