Increasing physical activity after a heart attack could halve a person’s risk of dying over the following four years, suggests research presented April 19 at EuroPrevent 2018, a European Society of Cardiology congress.

A hybrid revascularization approach combining PCI and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) produced similar five-year outcomes compared to CABG alone, according to a randomized trial of patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

Children whose families have increased psychosocial risks are three times more likely to discontinue weight management treatment and are also less likely to improve their weight status, according to new research published April 5 in the Journal of Pediatrics.

Poor health in adolescence can be an indicator of an individual’s future risk of cardiovascular disease. What seems like common sense, lower health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children can lead to structural changes in retinal blood vessels.

Men under the age of 50 who smoke are more likely to have a stroke—and that risk increases with how much an individual smokes, according to new research published April 19 in Stroke.

Though research shows that fathers impact their children’s eating habits and physical activity, a study published April 10 in Preventive Medicine suggests fathers are rarely included in family interventions that combat childhood obesity.

The odds of stroke patients being transferred from one hospital to another more than doubled from 2006 to 2014. While this is good for patients who may need more advanced care than a small community or rural hospital can provide, it is also important to limit the number of unnecessary transfers, researchers said.

At MedAxiom’s CV Transforum on April 12, Ginger Biesbrock and Jacob Turmell presented examples of how health systems around the country are reorganizing their care delivery models to boost patients’ access to services while improving care coordination and collaboration.

A class of blood pressure medications—short-acting calcium channel blockers (CCBs)—was associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer in postmenopausal women, according to a study presented April 17 at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Chicago.

A team of researchers from Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania are attempting to curb diabetes among their patient population with a program that treats healthy food like a prescription drug—and it has delivered strong early results.