Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills safety who went into sudden cardiac arrest on the football field back in January, has also highlighted the importance of this new bipartisan legislation.
Researchers explored data from nearly 25,000 PCI procedures, tracking the outcomes of patients treated with transradial access and transfemoral access.
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.
A dye marker on agarose gel is used to separate DNA. The smaller fragments move faster, the larger ones slower. The separation process is used to analyze the size of DNA fragments, to map DNA and to separate fragments of DNA for creating clones. Source: National Cancer Institute
When should a clinician tell a patient they have a gene variant that appeared incidentally but may have ramifications for cardiovascular health?
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.
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.