In a study of 620 married fathers in the United Kingdom, those who reported improving marital relationships over a six-year span dropped an average of 10 pounds. They also showed slightly lower LDL cholesterol levels and improvements in blood pressure readings.

Two decades after being approved by the FDA for treatment of acute ischemic stroke, clot-dissolving medication intravenous alteplase is administered to just 10 percent of patients, researchers from Georgia State recently reported in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

A new type of monogenic diabetes, caused by a gene mutation and fueled by a lack of the insulin-stimulating hormone GIP, has been discovered by a team of researchers across Europe and Asia.

Physicians are aware of stroke risk factors at this point, but something is getting lost in translation.

Multiple arterial grafting (MAG) was associated with lower rates of death and revascularization over 15 years of follow-up than the standard form of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), according to a study in JAMA Cardiology.

Women who develop hypertension in their 40s are up to 73 percent more likely to suffer from dementia later in life than normotensive counterparts, recent research published in Neurology states, while men with high blood pressure don’t see an increased risk at all.

Chinese cardiologists will be presenting their latest data on cardiovascular disease at the 28th Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology this weekend.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) strikes black women harder than other races, both in frequency and the ability to recover, according to a report published in JAMA Cardiology.