Abbott’s transcatheter tricuspid valve repair system is a safe and effective approach to treating tricuspid regurgitation in heart patients with few other options, according to data published in The Lancet.
Surgical candidates with active cannabis use disorders were nearly twice as likely as their non-user peers to suffer a heart attack after surgery, according to research published in Anesthesiology on Nov. 25.
A study published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing Nov. 28 found that nearly half of heart patients undergoing PCI admit to not understanding or remembering the bulk of the informed consent process, leaving them without a clear picture of the procedure and its potential benefits.
Research presented at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting in Chicago this month linked obesity to MRI-detected brain damage in young people.
Worries about deportation could be contributing to worse heart health among Latina women in the U.S., according to work published Nov. 27 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers have established a strong connection between depression and heart disease or stroke, with more severe cases of the mood disorder tied to increasingly greater odds of adverse CV events.
A cardiologist in Madrid, Spain, thinks physicians could leverage data from later-generation Apple Watches to diagnose heart attacks, HealthDay News reported Nov. 25.
One in eight adults with a history of CVD or stroke are noncompliant to their prescribed medications because of increasingly steep healthcare costs, researchers reported this month in Circulation.
Deprescribing—or working with patients to reduce and optimize their medication load—could be fundamental to healthcare’s push toward more patient-centered care, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
More than 10% of cancer patients in the U.S. die not from their cancer but from cardiovascular complications, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal Nov. 25.
