The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) have released performance and quality measures for preventing sudden cardiac death in adults.

Children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) in Sweden in the early 1990s had a lower mortality rate than those born in the 1970s, according to a registry-based, prospective, matched-cohort study.

Professor William Wijns, co-director of EuroPCR and chairman of PCR, has joined NUI Galway as a professor of medical devices. He will head the $5 million research project to develop wearable sensors for patients at high risk of heart attacks.

Adults who increased their nut intake by a handful a day had a 29 percent relative risk reduction for coronary heart disease, a 7 percent relative risk reduction for stroke and a 21 percent relative reduction for cardiovascular disease, according to a meta-analysis of 20 prospective studies.

An analysis in the United Kingdom found that children who were obese from age 11 to 13 had an increased risk of developing heart disease when they were 21 to 23 years old. The results were similar regardless of ethnicity or gender.

Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, MD, an intern at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts, writes in STAT about how her approach to medicine changed after her grandmother suffered an MI and had blood clots in both of her lungs.

In 2014, cardiovascular diseases accounted for the leading cause of death in 97.1 percent of counties in the U.S. and the leading age-standardized cause of death in 98.5 percent of counties, according to an analysis of deidentified death records. However, the rate of death from cardiovascular diseases varied considerably from county to county.

New research shows a smartphone app was successful at tracking participants’ physical activity and that mobile-based studies could be feasible.