American Heart News - Heart News

MAY 14, 2024

DALLAS, May 14, 2024 — Living with a chronic medical condition after surviving a heart attack or stroke may come with additional health and personal care needs. Often survivors must rely on a family member or close friend to help. However, there’s a.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The findings call into question the routine use of beta blockers for all patients following a heart attack, which have stood as a mainstay of care for decades. Approximately 50% of heart attack survivors do not experience heart failure. Over a median follow-up period of 3.5

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MARCH 11, 2025

CaRi-Plaque builds on Caristoscore CaRi-Hearttechnology, which a Lancet 2024 study proved can reveal hidden, high-risk markers of CAD progression predicting heart attacks up to a decade before they strike. For decades, heart disease has been treated reactively, waiting for symptoms to appear before taking action.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Stroke recovery is a challenging process that extends for months after hospital discharge. Navigating Post-Stroke Recovery at Home: One Patient's Experience A ”mildly impaired” stroke patient with atrial fibrillation who was discharged reported, “I knew my local pharmacist, and they knew my prescriptions.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Findings from the highly-anticipated MOST (Multi-Arm Optimization of Stroke Thrombolysis) trial were presented on the first day of the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference, ISC 2024, being held through Feb. A lot of our approaches in stroke treatment were learned from how we treat heart attacks.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The study focused on patients who underwent PCI for acute coronary syndromes (ACS)—life-threatening conditions which include heart attacks and chest pain caused by decreased blood flow to the heart—with stents containing drugs to prevent further plaque buildup.

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APRIL 24, 2024

milla1cf Wed, 04/24/2024 - 19:01 April 24, 2024 — Hello Heart , a digital leader in preventive heart health, today announced results from its latest study observing the benefits of scalable, accessible digital health tools for a growing senior population. Eighty percent of heart attacks and strokes are preventable.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MAY 2, 2024

Youth with high blood pressure are nearly four times more likely to be at long-term risk of serious heart conditions including stroke and heart attack, according to a new study. The research, led by McMaster University, will be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2024 Meeting, held May 2–6 in Toronto.

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APRIL 7, 2024

milla1cf Sun, 04/07/2024 - 18:20 April 7, 2024 — An estimated 1 in 5 U.S. adults—and more than 2 in 5 adults aged 60 years and older—have elevated triglycerides, also known as hypertriglyceridemia , putting them at an increased risk for heart attacks and stroke.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Caristo Diagnostics Limited has announced the results of a landmark clinical study published in The Lancet that support the ability of Caristo's CaRi-Heart AI technology to quantify coronary artery inflammation and accurately predict cardiac events. Coronary inflammation is a crucial piece of the puzzle in predicting heart attack risk.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Thu, 01/25/2024 - 20:44 January 25, 2024 — Agepha Pharma , a leading multinational pharmaceutical company with the first FDA-approved anti-inflammatory cardiovascular treatment ( LODOCO – colchicine, 0.5 mg tablets for therapeutic intervention. In June 2023, the U.S.

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APRIL 7, 2024

milla1cf Sun, 04/07/2024 - 18:09 April 7, 2024 — Among patients at high or very high risk for a heart attack or stroke, the addition of the investigational drug lerodalcibep to standard cholesterol-lowering medication for one year reduced LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, levels by more than half on average, compared with a placebo.

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JUNE 18, 2024

A projected rise in heart disease and stroke – along with several key risk factors, including high blood pressure and obesity – is likely to triple related costs to $1.8 christine.book Tue, 06/18/2024 - 11:22 June 18, 2024 — At least 6 in 10 adults in an older, more diverse U.S. This includes a doubling of stroke rates.

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MAY 16, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Thu, 05/16/2024 - 15:37 May 16, 2024 — People were more likely to develop a type of treatment-resistant hypertension when they experienced adverse effects of economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status, known as social determinants of health. Over a period of 9.5

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JULY 18, 2024

Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death and disability globally, largely driven by myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke caused by atherosclerosis (plaque build-up in the arteries).

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APRIL 7, 2024

Many studies have shown that people who engage in more physical activity are healthier and have fewer heart attacks and strokes than people who engage in less. This is equally true for people who have previously had a heart attack or a stroke or have heart failure or are at risk for cardiovascular disease.”

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JANUARY 23, 2024

3 Patients with ASCVD are at a higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) including heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cardiovascular (CV) death.4 milligrams per liter (mg/L) are linked to increased risk of heart attacks or risk of a repeat heart attack.23

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The answer is pretty simple, but most people get this wrong, and doing so increases their future risk of heart attack and strokes. 2024 Nov;81(11):2329-2339. ” This is one of the most common questions I get as a cardiologist. High blood pressure is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide 1. N Engl J Med.

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JUNE 20, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 06/20/2024 - 19:40 June 20, 2024 — A programing algorithm, being tested by HonorHealth Research Institute for those patients with new or recently installed pacemakers, is designed so the device not only provides a steady heartbeat, but also controls high blood pressure. You just turn it on, and it works,” Dr.

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APRIL 7, 2024

mtaschetta-millane Sun, 04/07/2024 - 18:43 April 7. High blood pressure, or hypertension , is a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and death. It occurs when the heart has to work harder to push blood through the blood vessels, increasing pressure inside the vessels.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

tim.hodson Wed, 10/30/2024 - 10:00 Oct. By adding AutoChamber AI to thoracic CT scans including coronary artery calcium (CAC) and coronary CT angiography (CCTA), doctors not only can evaluate coronary disease but also the risk of heart failure, atrial fibrillation and stroke which are not reported today.

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MAY 16, 2024

A new joint guideline from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and nine other medical societies reports early diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease is essential to improve outcomes and reduce amputation risk, heart attack, stroke and death for people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

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MARCH 20, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Wed, 03/20/2024 - 19:16 March 20, 2024 — SARS-CoV-2 , the virus that causes COVID-19 , can damage the heart even without directly infecting the heart tissue, a National Institutes of Health -supported study has found.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They found that following heart failure, heart attack or stroke, mortality was higher in childhood cancer survivors than in their siblings who did not have cancer.

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Hypertension Journal

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

2 If this was a simple issue to solve, one could ask – what do we need to ensure that the 60% to 80% of people with hypertension who are at high risk of a stroke, heart attack and other consequences, are not left behind? However, more recently these organizations developed two independent guidelines in 2023 and 2024.

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MARCH 18, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 03/18/2024 - 08:00 March 18, 2024 — The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai recently became one of four institutions in the U.S. and the first on the West Coast to use a new device aimed at lowering blood pressure in patients with difficult-to-treat hypertension.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP136-ATP136, February 1, 2025. Once these post-stroke patients have been identified, they are given a personalized monitoring plan depending on the individuals risk factors, the personalized care and rehabilitation plans are tracked and followed.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATMP16-ATMP16, February 1, 2025. Having elevated Lp(a) can increase risk of heart attack, stroke, and peripheral artery disease.It A configurable measure report including Lp(a) measurement obtained and Lp(a) level was added in April 2024.Methods:Beginning

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page AWP64-AWP64, February 1, 2024. Specificity could not be calculated due to low numbers of patients who did not need emergency evaluation.Results:The mean time to complete the acute assessment was 60 seconds for MI and 111 seconds for stroke.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This took place Thursday the 5 th of December 2024. The articles were published in similar form online on the MailOnline website on 2 March 2019, where they remained until June 2024. In a Judgment of 25 June 2024, the Court dismissed the Defendants’ public interest defence in its entirety.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

APRIL 12, 2024

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men and women. 80% of heart attacks and strokes linked to CVD are preventable with optimal risk factor management. However, every 40 seconds, an individual in the US suffers a heart attack. What are we falling short?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Physicians in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have pioneered using a catheter-based approach to treat patients with tricuspid valve disease. The heart has four valves (aortic, mitral, pulmonic, and tricuspid) that open and close to move blood through the heart and to the rest of the body. Image by Getty.

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MARCH 13, 2024

By silencing the LPA gene, the levels of Lp(a) are lowered, which in turn is expected to lower the risk of heart diseases, heart attacks and strokes. “We In this case, it aims to ‘silence’ LPA, a gene that tells the body to make a specific protein that is only found in Lp(a).

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JANUARY 19, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 01/19/2024 - 10:55 January 19, 2024 — Orchestra BioMed , a biomedical company accelerating high-impact technologies to patients through risk-reward sharing partnerships, today announced the first patient was randomized in the BACKBEAT pivotal study in late December 2023. Suman Pasupuleti, M.D. and Europe. Circulation.

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APRIL 7, 2024

High levels of triglycerides and the lipid particles on which they are carried in the blood can contribute to the formation of “plaques” in the arteries that impede blood flow and can lead to heart attacks and strokes.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

JUNE 25, 2024

25 June 2024 In the case against the Mail on Sunday (Associated Newspapers) and Barney Calman, Health Editor of the Mail on Sunday. Because of our lies hundreds of thousands of people had stopped taking statins, resulting in (potentially) many thousands of heart attacks, strokes and deaths. Step backwards for a moment.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

tim.hodson Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:12 Oct. 15, 2024 – Elucid has announced that four of the seven Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) will extend coverage for AI-enabled quantitative coronary plaque analysis, including its FDA-cleared PlaqueIQ image analysis software, beginning Nov.

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