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 Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New data demonstrated that a left main (LM) bifurcation-specific novel scoring system (LM V-RESOLVE), based
Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, talks about health disparities and how his studies aim to improve interventions in clinical settings and across communities…
Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified a causal genetic variant strongly associated with childhood obesity. The study provides new insight into the importance of the hypothalamus of the brain and its role in common childhood obesity, and the target gene may serve as a druggable target for future therapeutic interventions…
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