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.
 

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Ornish beats Mediterranean as best heart-healthy diet of 2020

The Mediterranean diet has been eclipsed as the U.S. News & World Report’s best-ranked heart-healthy diet for the first time in a decade, nudged out of the top spot by the popular Ornish diet.

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How 7 North Carolina clinics increased patient use of statins by 349%

A two-year collaboration between the North Carolina chapter of the American College of Cardiology and North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics was successful in providing thousands of underserved heart patients with free lipid-lowering therapy and clopidogrel.

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The most physically inactive states, ranked

More than 15% of adults in all U.S. states and territories were physically inactive between 2015 and 2018, according to recent data from the CDC, with estimates ranging from 17.3% to 47.7% between regions.

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Transcendental meditation helps prevent LV hypertrophy in hypertensive black patients

Black patients at a heightened risk for heart disease cut their CV mortality risk by 11% in a study that explored the cardiac benefits of the Transcendental Meditation technique.

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Ozempic receives expanded approval from FDA

The FDA has approved Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic—once-weekly semaglutide—for an expanded indication of CV risk reduction in people with type 2 diabetes and established heart disease.

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Women’s blood vessels age quicker than men’s

Women’s blood vessels age at a faster rate than men’s, researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai reported this month—a finding that could explain some of the considerable sex gaps in CVD in men and women.

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Keto diet is too high-fat for heart patients, cardiologist warns

One Minneapolis cardiologist is concerned that people following the trendy Keto diet aren’t worrying enough about their fat intake.

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NHS, Novartis partner to save 30K lives with new CV drug

Pharmaceutical company Novartis has partnered with the U.K.’s National Health Service to study inclisiran, an investigational cholesterol-lowering drug that experts project could save 30,000 lives over the next decade.

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.