The research included data from more than 47,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. 

The authors found a link between six months of empagliflozin and a reduction in extracellular volume, sharing their findings in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

For patients undergoing PCI, subclinical hypothyroidism was associated with higher short-term and long-term mortality.

Researchers were able to predict, with considerable accuracy, each patient's 5- and 10-year risk of heart failure. 

“Some people have expressed concerns about taking the vaccine,” the AHA wrote. “However, after review by science and medical experts, the association is confident the benefits of vaccination far exceed the very small, rare risks."

The researchers, sharing their work in the American Journal of Cardiology, suggested multiple reasons why this may be the case. 

Straightforward, easy-to-replicate changes helped transform a hospital's CR referral rates. 

Succession planning is about a practice’s top job, but it’s not *only* about the top job.

CEO Jim Rechtin said the pause will last through 2021, emphasizing that the physician firm’s political activities must reflect “our values as a national medical group."