Cardiology

Analysis of women who did not have high blood pressure while pregnant found that 1 in 10 were diagnosed with hypertension in the year after delivery.

Bariatric surgery reduced by half the risk of CV events including myocardial infarction, heart failure, and stroke compared to nonsurgical care.

Obesity phenotyping uses a battery of validated tests and procedures to determine the root cause of a patient's disease and then match treatment accordingly.

Acosta, a pioneer in the phenotyping of obesity, says one-third of patients don't respond to treatment and he knows why.

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Baxdrostat shows potential to represent the first new class of antihypertensive agents approved since 2017.

The Mass General Brigham clinical intervention and study included 10 000 participants and resulted in significant reductions in SBP/DBP and LDL-C.

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AHA 2022: Study authors say more research is needed to investigate the impact of targeting social determinants of health to improve cardiometabolic risk and mortality in pregnant women.

AHA 2022: Chronic users of either e-cigarettes or traditional cigarettes had acute changes in cardiovascular function and performed worse on exercise stress testing than never users in new study.

AHA 2022: An estimated 18% of Americans with heart disease reported using wearables, compared with 29% of the total US population.

Use of telemedicine and home blood pressure monitoring may mitigate adverse impact on BP control during future large-scale emergencies, noted researchers.

To help patients improve their cardiometabolic health, encourage them to move more, according to one speaker from CMHC 2022.

CMHC 2022: A decrease in vitamin D levels is associated with increased cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to new study.

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Findings underscore the need for ongoing efforts to improve prevention strategies, as CVD risk factors in younger women continue to rise, according to authors.

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Novel NMDA receptor antagonist approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder, first topical PDE4i approved for plaque psoriasis, and more.

The rate of food insecurity among persons with CVD nearly doubled over 20 years, according to new research.

Adults with migraine with aura were found at significantly greater risk for AF and those younger than age 55 years were particularly vulnerable, write Mayo Clinic investigators.

An aspirin deprescribing intervention at anticoagulation clinics led to a 50% reduction in use among patients with AF, VTE prescribed warfarin.

AHA Hypertension 2022: New research showed that hypertension medication adherence was nearly 76% in large urban areas and increased as population density decreased.

Abelacimab is a dual-acting, fully human monoclonal antibody that selectively targets both factor XI and factor XIa with high affinity.

AHA Hypertension 2022: Adoption of the DASH diet was found to prevent an estimated 16 000 CVD events among men and 11 000 among women with untreated stage 1 HTN.

AHA Hypertension 2022. Half of patients with newly elevated BP had white coat HTN yet some were diagnosed with HTN at next primary care visit, new study finds.

ESC 2022: SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines were not associated with an increased risk of worsening heart failure, venous thromboembolism, or myocarditis in a large Danish real-world study.

Regardless of where individuals live, they may benefit from blood pressure control programs that increase access to primary health care, study authors suggest.

Blood pressure-lowering therapy reduced the risk of major CV events in persons with and without type 2 diabetes, according to an individual participant-level data meta-analysis.

Early rhythm control reduced CV complications regardless of AF pattern but for patients with a first AF diagnosis, risks for hospitalization and ACS were higher after early rhythm therapy.

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