Weekend warriors who take brisk walks of around four miles just once or twice per week enjoy lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality than their sedentary peers.

Using waist-to-height ratio instead of body mass index (BMI) eliminates the oft-debated "advantage" of being overweight or obese with a heart condition.

The model estimated mortality risk for more than 244,000 patients in Alberta, Canada, who had an ECG taken after a related health incident. 

When should a clinician tell a patient they have a gene variant that appeared incidentally but may have ramifications for cardiovascular health?

Evkeeza, which was previously approved for patients ages 12 and above, was shown to help lower cholesterol for children with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), in conjunction with other therapies. 

“The effect of lower doses of radiation on the heart and blood vessels may have been underestimated in the past,” experts explained in BMJ.

These individuals face a more than an eightfold risk for myocardial infarction, according to new findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. 

UnitedHealthcare announced it would remove 20% of its current prior authorizations starting with the third quarter of this year.