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Cardiovascular Fitness: The Key to Longevity | Golden Age Health Summit 2025

Physiologically Speaking

I delivered it at the Golden Age Health Summit on March 15, 2025, in Austin, TX. Learn how VO2 max integrates multiple physiological systems (lungs, heart, blood vessels, mitochondria, and more) and why it’s a stronger predictor of longevity than traditional risk factors like cholesterol or BMI.

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2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association

Circulation

The 2025 AHA Statistical Update is the product of a full years worth of effort in 2024 by dedicated volunteer clinicians and scientists, committed government professionals, and AHA staff members.

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The relationship between cannabis and cardiovascular disease: clearing the haze

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 23 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41569-025-01121-6 In this Review, Wu and colleagues discuss the evolution in cannabis regulation, the endocannabinoid system and cannabinoid receptors, the influence of cannabis on cardiovascular risk factors, and the effects of traditional and synthetic cannabinoids on cardiovascular (..)

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Patients Who Received Ross Procedure Demonstrate Excellent Survival Rates after 20 Years

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Adult Cardiac

Risk factors for late autograft dysfunction include a dilated aortic annulus and ascending aorta. Freedom from pulmonary regurgitation was lower97% at 5 years, 83.6% at 10 years, 79.7% at 15 years, and 75.1% at 20 years. Individuals aged 18 years or younger exhibit notably higher rates of aortic regurgitation, Dr. Shetty observed.

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Preeclampsia associated with earlier onset and higher incidence of cardiovascular risk factors

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Women who have experienced preeclampsia have accelerated accumulation of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors compared with women who had pregnancies without preeclampsia according to research presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Preventive Cardiology congress 2025.

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Recurrent polymorphic ventricular tachycardia without chest pain: an unusual presentation of focal coronary artery spasm

The British Journal of Cardiology

This case report describes an atypical presentation of CAS in a 68-year-old white British male with cardiovascular risk factors. Coronary artery spasm (CAS), or Prinzmetal angina, is a recognised cause of myocardial ischaemia in non-obstructed coronary arteries which typically presents with anginal chest pain.

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Impact of Conventional Stroke Risk Factors on Early- and Late-Onset Ischemic Stroke: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Stroke Journal

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue 3 , Page 640-648, March 1, 2025. These divergent trends are at least partially attributable not only to diverging trends in stroke risk factors but may also be due to differences in the impact of stroke risk factors at different ages.