SGLT2 inhibitors—namely dapagliflozin—have been linked to a reduced risk of heart failure and death, as well as decreased odds of major adverse cardiovascular events.
Months after the latest losartan recall and more than a year after drug companies first started pulling bulk lots of angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARB) from pharmacy shelves, the FDA has issued a statement updating the American public on the scope of the situation.
Malpractice litigation is a risk that’s inherent to acute stroke care, Mount Sinai researchers reported in Stroke this month—and while just over half of cases get resolved, the remainder can cost medical centers millions in payouts.
Anxiety about rejection and abandonment in close relationships could be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, a study out of Concordia University has found.
A study funded by the Mayo Clinic and published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology this week suggests AI could be successfully applied to ECG data to measure a person’s overall health status.
An editorial published in the latest issue of The Lancet suggests physicians might make quicker progress toward reducing global levels of uncontrolled hypertension if they reframe the condition as part of a patient’s whole health profile, rather than as an isolated disease.
It’s the fifth year in a row and the seventh year out of ten that compensation for cardiologists has increased, according to MedAxiom’s Cardiovascular Provider Compensation and Production Survey report.
Rates of hypertension have been climbing in the U.S. in recent years, according to an analysis by Blue Cross Blue Shield, and they’re growing fastest among millennials and adults in their mid-thirties and forties.
Heart disease deaths are on the rise in the U.S., according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Aug. 27—and they have been for almost a decade.
Oregon Health & Science University will resume its heart transplant services this month after nearly a year of inactivity, the university announced Aug. 26.
