MedPage Today) — A community-based intensive blood pressure (BP) intervention was safe and effective for both older and younger adults with hypertension, a randomized trial conducted in rural China showed. Among participants ages 60 and older…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Women diagnosed with perinatal depression are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in the following 20 years compared to women who have given birth without experiencing perinatal depression, according to research published in the European Heart Journal. Perinatal depression, meaning depression during pregnancy or after birth, is believed to affect one

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 peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread by Tufts University “While we’ve seen some modest improvement in American diets in the last two decades, those improvements are not reaching everyone, and

BOSTON — A Mediterranean diet with extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) significantly reduced the risk for tachyarrhythmia recurrence after atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation in patients with paroxysmal disease, but the diet had less of an impact on patients with persistent AF, a new study showed. “An intervention with the Mediterranean diet with EVOO produced a

PARIS — A percutaneous intervention strategy based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides greater procedural success than an angiography-based strategy for stent optimization in calcified lesions, according to a multicenter randomized controlled trial. In addition to providing a significantly more favorable minimal stent area (MSA), which was the primary endpoint of the trial…

MedPage Today) — TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center…

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 peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread by Ann Kellett, Texas A&M University A review of research suggests exercising in a park or other natural setting is more beneficial than exercising

Deploying and evaluating a machine learning intervention to improve clinical care and patient outcomes is a key step in moving clinical deterioration models from byte to bedside, according to a June 13 editorial in Critical Care Medicine that comments on a Mount Sinai study published in the same issue…

TOPLINE: In the ENGAGES-Canada trial, patients who received electroencephalography (EEG)-guided anesthesia or usual care during cardiac surgery experienced similar rates of postoperative delirium. METHODOLOGY: ENGAGES-Canada was a randomized clinical trial involving 1140 patients aged 60 years or older undergoing cardiac surgery at four Canadian hospitals. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either EEG-guided anesthesia or

LISBON — Patients with decompensated heart failure who have bendopnea on discharge from hospital appear to be at significantly increased risk for all-cause mortality within 2 years, reported investigators The research, presented here at the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (HFA-ESC) 2024 and published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology…