The Mayo Clinic researchers were "surprised" at how far the intervention restored the diseased hearts back to normal.

Heart patients who follow all guideline-recommended medical advice after an MI are far more likely than their peers to survive for years after a heart attack, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association this month.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital physicians have discovered that irregular sleep patterns can significantly hike a person’s risk for heart disease, even if they’re otherwise healthy.

A secondary analysis of the AUGUSTUS trial confirms earlier findings that treating heart patients with the anticoagulant apixaban results in less major bleeding, hospitalization and death than warfarin, a standard-of-care blood thinner.

The editors of the Journal of the American Heart Association have retracted a study that linked some-day and everyday e-cigarette use to an increased risk of having had a heart attack. The same study alleged the effect of e-cigarettes was comparable to those of conventional cigarettes.

Women who have suffered domestic abuse are 31% more likely to develop heart disease and 51% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than women who haven’t been abused, a study out of the U.K. has found.

A beta-blocker and aspirin combination may help attenuate the heightened CVD risk observed in people who have recently lost a loved one, according to research published in the American Heart Journal in February.

Over half of heart patients on a triple-drug regimen of ACE inhibitors, statins and either calcium channel blockers or aspirin are nonadherent to their medications, researchers reported in the American Journal of Cardiology Feb. 6.