Heart Health

This news channel includes content on cardiovascular disease prevention, cardiac risk stratification, diagnosis, screening programs, and management of major risk factors that include diabetes, hypertension, diet, life style, cholesterol, obesity, ethnicity and socio-economic disparities.
 

Is fasting during Ramadan good or bad for your blood pressure?

Researchers looked at this question closely, performing a study of their own in addition to a meta-analysis.

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Specialists awarded $4M grant for diabetes research

The grant will support the development of smartphone apps, glucose monitoring devices and other technologies that manage diabetes.

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A lifetime of obesity can do serious heart damage before symptoms even occur

The new study highlights yet another reason that weight control is so important to a person's cardiac health. 

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Cigarette sales jumped during the pandemic

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, sales had actually been on the decline. 

Advanced age, hypertension among predictors of AFib in ESUS patients

The analysis included more than 5,000 patients who received care from December 2014 to January 2018 in one of 42 countries.

FDA approves expansion of clinical support system to include patients with type 2 diabetes

The platform is now approved as a treatment option for patients with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Cardiologists can make a difference by promoting flu shots, debunking vaccine misinformation

An international team of specialists from the Netherlands and New York made their case in a new editorial. 

FDA announces recall of 2 hypertension medications

The affected batches were distributed from October 2018 to December 2020. 

Around the web

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.