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How High Blood Pressure Affects Your Heart and What You Can Do About It

MIBHS

This condition, called atherosclerosis, narrows the arteries, restricting blood flow and increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes. This condition reduces blood flow to the heart, increasing the risk of angina (chest pain) and heart attacks. If an aneurysm ruptures, it can cause life-threatening internal bleeding.

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Association between weight-adjusted waist circumference index and myocardial infarction: results from the national health and nutrition examination survey, 1999–2014

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundWeight-adjusted waist circumference index (WWI) is a novel index related to obesity and has been associated with the risk and prognosis of several diseases. Subgroup analyses revealed that the impact of WWI on myocardial infarction varied across different populations.

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The Hidden Toll of Chronic Stress on Your Heart Health

MIBHS

While this response is adaptive in the short term, chronic stress keeps your blood pressure elevated for extended periods, increasing your risk of hypertension (high blood pressure) and its associated complications, such as heart disease and stroke.

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American College of Cardiology ACC.24 Late-breaking Science and Guidelines Session Summary

DAIC

24 will focus on the following three current guideline updates: American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines 2023 Atrial Fibrillation Guideline - Pharmacology II: Strokes vs. Bleeds, What Do the Guidelines Tell Us About Practical Management in A-fib? The Guidelines Sessions at ACC.24

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Abstract 4139303: Temporal Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Disease among Middle Eastern Immigrants in the National Health Interview Survey 2004-2018

Circulation

The study assessed the prevalence of CVD (heart attack, angina pectoris, coronary heart disease, other heart conditions, or stroke) and LE8 risk factors: insufficient physical activity (PA), nicotine exposure, sleep duration, obesity, physician-diagnosed high cholesterol, diabetes, and hypertension. NHW&6.8%

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

DAIC

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 mg) to reduce the risks of heart attack, stroke, coronary revascularization, and CV death.29 4 In the U.S. 22 In general, hsCRP values above 2.0

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Association of Depression and Poor Mental Health With Cardiometabolic Disease in Women 

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

These indirect and direct factors can lead to obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, ischemia with no obstructive coronary artery disease (INOCA), CAD, myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, sympathetic-adrenal-medullary system, sympathetic nervous system, and hypoestrogenemia.