Managing their high blood pressure is the best way patients with diabetes can avoid hypertensive emergencies, according to research published in Clinical and Experimental Hypertension this fall.

A small-scale pilot study has linked omega-3 fatty acid supplementation to improved social function and reduced cognitive depression in patients with combined chronic heart failure (CHF) and major depressive disorder.

A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology provides reassurance that TAVR is a safe alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in low-risk patients, as zero of the 200 people undergoing the transcatheter procedure died or experienced a disabling stroke within 30 days.

Certain antiphospholipid antibodies were detected more often after heart attacks than for age-matched controls, suggesting the markers could be used to identify patients at high risk of myocardial infarction, according to a study published Oct. 22 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

A free phone app helped a low-income, obese patient population achieve clinically meaningful weight loss, researchers from Duke University reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Having reduced cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is as harmful to survival as coronary artery disease, smoking cigarettes or diabetes, suggests a retrospective study published Oct. 19 in JAMA Network Open.

Canadian physicians are calling for nationwide CVD screening for all competitive high school athletes, CTV News reported this week of new guidelines issued at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Toronto.

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston has hired two new cardiac surgeons and an administrator in an effort to revamp a heart transplant program that recently lost Medicare funding due to poor patient outcomes, the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica reported.