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September 11, 2024

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Sep. 11, 2024 — People who have had a stroke may be more likely to sleep too much or too little compared to those without prior stroke, according to a new study. The study does not prove that stroke causes abnormal sleep; it only shows an ...

Throat Problems Could Impair Autonomic Nervous System's Ability to Regulate Blood Pressure

Sep. 11, 2024 — Patients with throat problems were less able to regulate their blood pressure in a new study. The study shows reduced baroreflex sensitivity in patients with throat ...

Experimental Blood Test Predicts Risk for Developing COPD, Other Severe Respiratory Diseases

Sep. 10, 2024 — A scientific team has created a preclinical blood test to identify adults most likely to develop severe respiratory conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The blood test ...

Diagnostic Tool Identifies Puzzling Inflammatory Diseases in Kids

Sep. 9, 2024 — RNA is expelled from cells via cell death or active release, and can then find its way into blood plasma. Medical researchers have now developed machine learning models that use these cell-free molecular RNA dregs to diagnose pediatric inflammatory ...

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Study Estimates Home Blood Pressure Devices Don't Fit Properly for More Than 17 Million US Adults

Sep. 5, 2024 — Over-the-counter blood pressure measuring devices offer a simple, affordable way for people to track hypertension at home, but the standard arm-size ...

Regular Mobile Phone Use May Increase the Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases, Study Suggests

Sep. 4, 2024 — A new study has found that regular mobile phone use was positively associated with incident cardiovascular diseases risk. In addition, this ...

High Cholesterol Levels at a Young Age Significant Risk Factor for Atherosclerosis

Sep. 4, 2024 — Our risk of developing atherosclerosis -- 'furring' of the arteries -- can begin much earlier in life than was previously thought, highlighting the ...

Sep. 3, 2024 — Heart failure during pregnancy is a dangerous and often under-detected condition because common symptoms -- shortness of breath, extreme fatigue and ...

Clinical Trial Finds Finerenone Reduces Worsening Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Death

Sep. 2, 2024 — Finerenone reduced the composite of total first and recurrent heart failure (HF) events (hospitalizations for HF or urgent HF visits) and ...

Is Long-Term Beta-Blocker Therapy Needed After a Heart Attack?

Aug. 30, 2024 — The appropriate duration of beta-blocker treatment after a heart attack (a myocardial infarction [MI]) is unknown in patients who do not need to take beta-blockers for another reason. In the ABYSS ...

One in 7 Medicare Beneficiaries With High Body Mass Index May Qualify for Anti-Obesity Drug

Aug. 26, 2024 — A new study estimates that 3.6 million Medicare beneficiaries are most likely to become eligible for semaglutide. The study also estimates ...

Catching Up on Sleep on Weekends May Lower Heart Disease Risk by Up to 20%

Aug. 29, 2024 — Modern lifestyles mean many people are sleep deprived on work or school days, and try to 'catch-up' with compensatory sleep on weekends. A new study of more than 90,000 individuals showed that those ...

Borderzone Breakthrough: A New Source of Cardiac Inflammation

Aug. 29, 2024 — Researchers report the discovery of a novel mechanism of cardiac inflammation that may expand therapeutic opportunities to prevent heart attacks from becoming heart ...

More People at Risk of Hereditary Heart Disease Than Thought

Aug. 28, 2024 — A new study used data from the UK Biobank to analyze the genes of 469,789 people in the UK and found that one in 1,000 possessed genetic variants with a likely link to cardiac transthyretin (ATTR) ...

Study Shows Long Term-Effects of Immigration on Chinese Americans' Cardiovascular Health

Sep. 5, 2024 — A new study found that cardiovascular disease risk among Chinese American immigrants increases with length of residence and varies by location in the ...

Study Shows Reduced Inflammation in Residents After Adding Trees to Their Neighborhoods

Aug. 27, 2024 — A new project has found that people living in neighborhoods where the number of trees and shrubs was more than doubled showed lower levels of a blood marker of inflammation than those living outside ...

Weight Loss Drug's Heart Benefits Extend to People With Heart Failure

Aug. 22, 2024 — The researchers looked at data from 4,286 people -- out of a total of 17,605 from the landmark Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes (SELECT) trial who were randomly assigned either semaglutide or ...

Study of Pythons Could Lead to New Therapies for Heart Disease, Other Illnesses

Aug. 21, 2024 — In the first 24 hours after a python devours its massive prey, its heart grows bigger, softer and stronger and its metabolism speeds up forty-fold. The extraordinary process could inspire novel ...

New Insights and Potential Treatments for Pulmonary Hypertension

Aug. 21, 2024 — A new study has found that asporin, a protein encoded by the ASPN gene, plays a protective role in pulmonary arterial hypertension ...

Proposed Risk Factor Tool Finds Heart Failure Rates Are Higher Among American Indian Adults

Aug. 21, 2024 — An analysis based on a proposed heart failure risk prediction tool reveals that the incidence of heart failure may be 2- to 3-fold higher among American Indian adults compared to people in other ...

High or Low Oxygen Levels Are Safe During Heart Surgery, Study Finds

Aug. 21, 2024 — A recent study explored one possible cause -- hyperoxia or high concentrations of oxygen given to such patients during surgery -- as opposed to doses more similar to air. The study concluded that ...

Researchers Use AI Tools to Uncover Connections Between Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer and Heart Complications

Aug. 20, 2024 — Researchers have used artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the understanding of the risk of specific cardiac arrhythmias when various parts of the heart are exposed to different thresholds of ...

Tiny Killers: How Autoantibodies Attack the Heart in Lupus Patients

Aug. 20, 2024 — A team of researchers report that autoantibodies alone directly affect heart function in lupus ...

Gut Microbial Pathway Identified as Target for Improved Heart Disease Treatment

Aug. 20, 2024 — Researchers have made a significant discovery about how the gut microbiome interacts with cells to cause cardiovascular disease. The study found phenylacetylglutamine (PAG), produced by gut bacteria ...

'Heart-in-a-Box' Better Than Cooler for Heart Transplants

Aug. 20, 2024 — The risk of early heart failure after heart transplantation is lower if the donor heart is stored in a so-called heart-in-a-box instead of in the usual cooler with ...

Blood Platelet Score Detects Previously Unmeasured Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

Aug. 20, 2024 — A new study created a score to identify patients with platelet hyperreactivity and risk of related, future cardiovascular ...

Improving Access to Heart-Failure Screening With Saliva

Aug. 19, 2024 — Heart failure is a leading cause of death worldwide and is especially deadly for people who don't have access to medical facilities. A team of researchers aims to bring heart failure screening ...

Expanding a Child's Heart Implant With Light

Aug. 19, 2024 — Children born with certain heart defects undergo a series of invasive surgeries early in life. The first surgery includes implantation of a shunt to improve blood flow. However, as children grow, the ...

Nurses Play Key Role in Addressing Mental Well-Being for People After a Stroke

Aug. 19, 2024 — The latest research indicates that 16% to 85% of people recovering from a stroke experience at least one psychosocial symptom, including depression, anxiety, stress, fatigue and/or decreased quality ...

Genetic Link Between Alzheimer's and Heart Disease Confirmed

Aug. 15, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered a significant genetic connection between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and several coronary artery disease (CAD) related disorders and lipid classes, offering opportunities ...

Aug. 14, 2024 — Job strain and effort-reward imbalance at work were associated with a greater chance of developing an abnormal heart rhythm condition, finds a new ...

Breakthrough Heart MRI Technique Accurately Predicts Heart Failure Risk in General Population

Aug. 12, 2024 — MRI scans could replace invasive heart tests, as new research shows they can reliably estimate pressures inside the heart to predict if a patient will develop heart ...

Aug. 12, 2024 — Patients with a common heart arrhythmia called Atrial Fibrillation could benefit from future treatments that target inefficiencies in heart cell metabolism, according to a new ...

Adding a 9th Psychological Health Metric to Life's Essential 8 Enhances the Cardiovascular Health Construct for Predicting Mortality Risk

Aug. 12, 2024 — A cardiovascular health construct based on the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 but enhanced with a ninth psychological health metric strongly predicts all-cause and ...