Cardiovascular Health

For this Mother’s Day, Caroline Carney, MD, MSc, FAPM, CPHQ, explains the importance of understanding the correlation between mental health and heart health in women aged 65 years and older.

The drug is indicated to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, HF hospitalizations, or the need for outpatient intravenous diuretics.

The study investigated whether people who regularly ate higher quantities of nitrate-rich vegetables, such as leafy greens and beetroot, had lower blood pressure.

Caroline Carney, MD, MSc, FAPM, CPHQ, chief medical officer of Magellan Health, a board-certified internist, and a board-certified psychiatrist, discusses the impact of trauma and stress on overall health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use of tranexamic acid is not associated with complications such as deep vein blood clots, heart attacks, seizures, or strokes or mini strokes when used in high-risk patients, according to a study published in Anesthesiology.

Caroline Carney, MD, MSc, FAPM, CPHQ, chief medical officer of Magellan Health, a board-certified internist, and a board-certified psychiatrist, discusses the correlation between heart health and mental health.

A heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation occurs at least twice as frequently in patients with diabetes as those without.

Medication should be considered for patients with slightly elevated blood pressure who do not respond to 6 months of healthy lifestyle changes, according to a new statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) published in Hypertension.

Women who had migraines before menopause had a 29% increased risk of developing high blood pressure after menopause.

Researchers found that the amount of time between the onset of heart attack symptoms and an artery-clearing percutaneous coronary intervention was an important target for public education efforts.

A greater understanding of obesity and its impact on cardiovascular health highlights abdominal obesity, sometimes referred to as visceral adipose tissue (VAT), as a cardiovascular disease risk marker.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified additional genetic mutations that strongly predispose otherwise healthy women to peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare condition characterized by weakness of the heart muscle that begins sometime during the final month of pregnancy through 5 months after delivery.

Nocturnal respiratory events, when they either completely or partially block the airways, often cause repeated oxygen desaturations and interrupted sleep in patients with OSA, leading to abnormal nervous system function.

Collaboration between a health coach and pharmacist is a relatively new concept, but initial evidence is promising.

For the study, which included 19,408 participants in the UK Biobank, the researchers examined associations of self-reported intake of red and processed meat with heart anatomy and function.

The study suggests that the effects of job strain and social strain on women have a powerful health impact, with both being associated with a 21% higher risk of developing CHD.

Higher levels of physical leisure activity were associated with a decreased risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and overall risk of death, whereas higher levels of physical labor had the opposite effect.

Long-term societal and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have promoted urgent responses in many sectors, which could lead to real-world efforts to improve prevention of chronic health conditions.

Despite identical HDL cholesterol levels, study participants who had experienced a cardiovascular event showed lower anti-inflammatory activity in their HDL particles compared to the healthy cohort.

Heart failure and stroke are rising among individuals below 40 years of age, with links between obesity and low fitness in the late teen years and these early diagnoses.

Among patients with HIV who had not been diagnosed with heart disease at the beginning of the study, the risk of developing heart disease, heart failure, or stroke for the first time was 90% higher among those taking beta-blockers.

The study did not find significant associations between the intake of unprocessed red meat or poultry with either of these conditions, in contrast to prior studies that linked red meat to higher risks of cardiovascular disease.

Study is the first to examine how the choice of blood pressure medications influences the long-term risk of heart disease, stroke, and heart failure in a patient population with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

Some drugs commonly used for psoriasis can increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, whereas other treatments can reduce the risk.

Cardiometabolic health risk factors include metabolic syndrome, a cluster of disorders that include excess fat around the waist, insulin resistance, and high blood pressure.