Recent advances in treatments and management strategies have helped patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy live longer and experience few adverse events, according to a longitudinal cohort study.

Between 2003 and 2013, the death rate for heart disease decreased 19 percent among men age 55 to 64 and decreased 24 percent for women in the same age category, according to a report released on May 6 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Still, in 2013, 55 percent of deaths among that age group were due to cancer or heart disease.

Nearly 17 million people gained health insurance coverage between September 2013 and February 2015, according to a longitudinal survey. The increase coincides with the federal government mandate that most people are required to have insurance.

Physicians say medicine is part science and part art. These days many need to squeeze strategy into the formula.

After patients experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, they had significantly higher survival rates if they were admitted to tertiary heart centers compared with nontertiary hospitals, according to a Danish study.

Despite all their promise, EHRs failed to deliver in a study that compared the quality of care and outcomes for ischemic stroke at hospitals that had and had not adopted the technology. The results were published in the May 12 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

A study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute will examine the most effective dose of aspirin to use in patients with heart disease.

The Iowa City Heart Center and the University of Iowa’s Heart and Vascular Center have partnered in a deal that makes Iowa City Heart Center’s cardiologists and employees members of the university system.