By February of 2022, Ella, a 25-year-old behavioral interventionist in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sick with strep-like symptoms for the third time in 3 months. She didn’t bother to call her doctor. The first two times she had strep throat, she’d tried to schedule an appointment with her newest primary care doctor but couldn’t get
Declines in heart failure-related mortality from 1999 to 2012 were entirely reversed from 2012 to 2021, according to a research letter published online April 24 in JAMA Cardiology. Ahmed Sayed, M.B.B.S., from Ain Shams University in Cairo, and colleagues used data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiological
A study in more than 3,000 US counties, with 315 million residents, has suggested that air pollution is linked with stress and depression, putting under-65-year-olds at increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. The research is presented today at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found that Black women with poor cardiovascular health may face an elevated risk of early signs of cognitive decline in midlife. The study, which is published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, included 363 Black and 402 white women who enrolled in the Chicago site
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When it comes to matters of the heart, cardiovascular disease in women is underdiagnosed compared to men. A popular scoring system used to estimate how likely a person is to develop a cardiovascular disease within the next 10 years is the Framingham Risk Score. It is based on factors including age
In patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel disease, fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided complete nonculprit revascularization did not reduce death, myocardial infarction (MI) or unplanned revascularization compared with culprit lesion-only percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). “Around half of all patients undergoing primary PCI to the culprit lesion in STEMI have multivessel disease…
Editors’ notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked trusted source proofread by Oxford University Press Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new paper in JNCI Cancer Spectrum finds that following a healthy diet lowers the risk of cardiovascular
MedPage Today) — A multi-pronged electronic health record-based population health management intervention failed to move the needle for slowing chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression, a cluster randomized trial showed. Over a median follow…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research indicates that physical activity lowers cardiovascular disease risk in part by reducing stress-related signaling in the brain. In the study, which was led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system and published in the Journal of the American
Treatment with ticagrelor alone results in a lower rate of clinically relevant bleeding compared with ticagrelor and aspirin among patients with an acute coronary syndrome who had percutaneous coronary intervention and remained event-free for one month on dual antiplatelet therapy, according to a study published online April 7 in The Lancet to coincide with the