The HELP-PCI trial showed that in patients with STEMI, early administration of unfractionated heparin at first medical contact led to improved culprit artery TIMI flow before PCI but did not reduce ...

Cardiology asked Fry, members of the Task Force, as well as other College leaders, for their thoughts on what it will take to navigate this crisis. Specifically, we take a deeper look at the Task ...

Lipoprotein (a) (Lp [a]) is a low-density lipoprotein–like molecule with an apolipoprotein (b) moiety that is covalently attached to apolipoprotein (a) (Apo [a]), a plasminogen-like protein that ...

Central Illustration: Racial Disparities in Hypertension in a Snapshot. Major factors (red), reasons for worse outcomes (yellow) and future directions for improving disparities in ethnic minorities ...

Social, Financial Factors Critical to Assessing Cardiovascular Risk Food, housing and financial insecurity strongly linked with increased likelihood of heart disease ...

New US Population Study Projects Steep Rise in Cardiovascular Diseases by 2060 CV rates are expected to significantly increase among minorities while decreasing among ...

Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) remains of utmost clinical importance; it is positioned in clinical trials as a treatment target and is emphasized in worldwide guidelines as the primary ...

Sitting Too Long Can Harm Heart Health, Even for Active People Approximately 10 hours or more of sedentary behavior per day is associated with heightened risk of heart failure and cardiovascular death ...

Large-scale COVID-19 vaccination using mRNA technology revealed a small but real risk of vaccine-associated myocarditis (VAM). Presenting at rates of less than 4 per 100,000 in the general population, ...

Contact: Olivia Walther, [email protected], WASHINGTON (Dec 11, 2023) - A world without cardiovascular disease (CVD) is possible, yet millions of lives are lost prematurely to heart disease each year, ...

Monica M. Colvin, MDAuthors: Heidenreich PA, Bozkurt B, Aguilar D, et al. Citation: 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of ...

Consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverages, potato chips and packaged cookies, may be associated with adverse health outcomes, according to research being presented at the ...