Soft drink companies still have a lot of work to do to reach their goal of making their beverages healthier, the New York Times reports.

Researchers have discovered a protein called ALK1 that plays a role in the buildup of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in blood vessels.

More than 400 medical practices, providers and health systems are working on Target: BP, an initiative from the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Medical Association (AMA).

After nearly five years of follow-up, adults with hypertension who received chlorthalidone had a 21 percent lower risk of hip and pelvic fractures compared with those who received lisinopril or amlodipine, according to a post hoc analysis of a randomized trial.

Alexis D’Elia, a cardiologist from New York, recently died due to breast cancer, Newsday reports. She was 34 years old.

Approximately one-third of women who were at low atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk had coronary artery calcium (CAC), according to a meta-analysis of five population-based cohorts.

A registry analysis found that providing bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was associated with an improvement in survival and neurologically favorable survival in children younger than 18 years old. However, bystander CPR only occurred in 46.5 percent of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

After 76 weeks of treatment, patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease who received evolocumab plus statin therapy had a statistically significant regression of atherosclerosis compared with patients who received statins and a placebo, according to a randomized trial.