Only 30 percent of Medicare patients who received ventricular assist devices (VADs) in 2014 attended cardiac rehabilitation, but those patients enjoyed significant decreases in hospitalizations and mortality over the following year, according to a study in JACC: Heart Failure.

A new analysis in Circulation suggests low-volume centers that follow clinical guidelines are able to provide the same level of care in treating heart failure as higher-volume centers.

A wearable patch with the ability to track cardiac activity can assess patients’ heart failure status, researchers reported in Circulation: Heart Failure this week.

Heart disease in adults could be a result of fetal infection and inflammation before birth, especially if a baby is born prematurely, researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine reported this week.

Men are more prone to develop heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) than women but both sexes are equally likely to have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), according to research published Jan. 19 in Circulation.

A six-week period following delivery poses the greatest threat to a new mom’s heart health, according to a study published this month in Circulation—it’s during these 42 days postpartum that a woman appears most susceptible to heart failure.

As life expectancy continues to expand for cancer patients, clinicians are increasingly dealing with oncological complications like cardiotoxicity, according to a medical team in the Netherlands—and those doctors are met with a paucity of research on the topic.

An update on the 2013 heart failure guidelines released jointly by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, the new decision pathway aims to guide clinicians through 10 critical issues in treating heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).