Twenty-six percent of heart attack survivors are confused about the role aspirin plays in secondary MI prevention, according to a recent survey from Bayer—a phenomenon that can be attributed in large part to an onslaught of conflicting headlines in the news this summer.

Discharging patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) under a 0- and 1-hour high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T protocol is helpful for clearing waiting rooms, according to work presented at the ESC Congress Sept. 3.

Taking a nap once or twice a week—regardless of how long those naps are—can lower a person’s risk of incident heart disease, researchers report in the latest issue of BMJ Heart.

Despite a decades-long decline in the rate of heart attacks among older people in the U.S., younger men in their twenties and thirties are presenting more often with MI, Men’s Health reports.

New York City firefighters exposed to dust and debris from the World Trade Center attacks on and after Sept. 11, 2001, are far more likely to experience an adverse cardiovascular event in the long-term, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open Sept. 6.

A study out of Emory University has revealed a link between education levels and the odds of developing or dying from CVD, with anything under a graduate degree representing a higher risk of heart disease. 

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.

Belgium-based Miracor Medical has secured FDA breakthrough device designation for its PiCSO Impulse System, an innovation designed to treat STEMI patients.