Circulation

JUNE 4, 2024

We projected through 2050, overall and by age and race and ethnicity, accounting for changes in disease prevalence and demographics.RESULTS:We estimate that among adults, prevalence of hypertension will increase from 51.2% Diabetes (16.3% to 6.4%), atrial fibrillation (1.7% in 2020 to 61.0% to 26.8%) and obesity (43.1%

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Journal of the American Heart Association

MARCH 21, 2025

BackgroundThe clinical utility of the polygenic risk score in predicting cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) has not yet been established. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print.

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Circulation

JUNE 4, 2024

The human capital approach was used to estimate productivity losses from morbidity and premature mortality due to cardiovascular conditions.RESULTS:One in 3 US adults received care for a cardiovascular risk factor or condition in 2020.

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CardiacWire

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Heart Disease in 2050 – The AHA warned of massive heart disease increases by 2050, spanning CVD (+60%), diabetes (+100%), obesity (+70%), hypertension (+44%), heart failure (+66%), and stroke (+100%). Hypertension Problems: Another JAMA study highlighted the U.S.’s s massive hypertension diagnosis and treatment problems.

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DAIC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

million Americans have atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heart beat that can lead to stroke or sudden death, is three times more common than previously thought, affecting nearly 5 percent of the population, or 10.5 tim.hodson Wed, 09/11/2024 - 15:40 Sept. million U.S. million U.S.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is the most severe adverse effect of anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. Hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and chronic kidney disease are well-known cardiovascular risk factors for ICH. Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A49-A49, February 1, 2025.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Obesity significantly increases AF risk, both directly and indirectly, through related conditions, like hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure. AF increases the risk of stroke, heart failure, dementia, and hospitalization.

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MIBHS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Arrhythmias: Genetic mutations can also predispose individuals to irregular heart rhythms, such as atrial fibrillation or long QT syndrome, which may increase the risk of stroke or sudden cardiac arrest. Mutations in specific genes often cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Multivariate linear regression analysis shows that the degree of anemia, atrial fibrillation, and TR were independently associated with the TAPSE/PASP ratio.ConclusionAnemia in HFpEF is associated with RV dysfunction, and this relationship is not affected by classical risk factors, such as smoking, hypertension, and diabetes.

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DAIC

JUNE 18, 2024

The last decade has seen a surge of cardiovascular risk factors such as uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, each of which raises the risks of developing heart disease and stroke," he said. "It The diabetes rate is expected to rise from 16.3% This includes a doubling of stroke rates. of the population.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

of senior patients with age-related diseases such as hypertension, dyslipidemia and atrial fibrillation had PVTs, as estimated by cardiac computed tomography (CT) and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) must have PVTs. In 2022, we reported that 98.6% from 50 y.o.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Specifically, this genetic factor was found to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes by 46.5%, coronary heart disease by 37.5%, ischemic stroke by 35.4%, cardiac-related mortality by 28.6%, heart failure by 28.2%, transient ischemic attack by 24%, atrial fibrillation by 15.2%, peripheral artery disease by 0.3%, and hypertension by 0.3%.

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ADN Center of Excellence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

September is National Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about one of the most common yet often misunderstood heart conditions. Understanding Atrial Fibrillation Atrial Fibrillation is characterized by an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm that can lead to poor blood flow.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

AI-ECG prediction models developed at our institution can evaluate the probability of atrial fibrillation (AF) and estimate a patients age based on a normal sinus rhythm (NSR) ECG. Migraine with aura(MwA) is associated with an increased risk of stroke and adverse vascular outcomes compared to those with migraine without aura (MwoA).

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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 12:15 p.m.

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Heart BMJ

MAY 10, 2024

Arrhythmias, and in particular atrial fibrillation (AF), are one of the greatest healthcare challenges of our time. Arrhythmia prediction models have long relied on conventional risk factors such as age, diabetes, hypertension, and history of myocardial infarction and heart failure.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Black History Month is a poignant backdrop to the alarming rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes, particularly among those of marginalized populations. Two major risk factors for CVD are hypertension and diabetes, which also place a heavier burden on minority groups.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Introduction:Clinical characteristics of patients with in-hospital onset stroke (IHOS) compared to those with out-of-hospital onset stroke are reported to be late detection of stroke onset, less use of rt-PA, presence of atrial fibrillation, and poor outcome. Stroke group had higher mortality (14.9%

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Open Heart

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The most common comorbidities prior to OHCA were hypertension (43.6%), heart failure (23.6%), chronic ischaemic heart disease (23.6%) and atrial fibrillation (22.0%). had type 2 diabetes, compared with 19.6% Previous AMI was prevalent in 14.8% of men and 10.9% Among women, 18.0% of the men.

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ADN Center of Excellence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

September is National Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about one of the most common yet often misunderstood heart conditions. Understanding Atrial Fibrillation Atrial Fibrillation is characterized by an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm that can lead to poor blood flow.

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

IntroductionThere is a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 in Hispanics as compared to other ethnic groups in the United States. Diabetes is a risk factor for acute ischemic stroke and also a poor predictor of outcome for many interventional surgeries. vs 45.3%, p=0.05) after adjusting for age, NIHSS, and atrial fibrillation.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Background:The STRACK project aims to improve post-stroke patient management and the transition from acute to primary care thanks to improvements in patient pathways and monitoring cardiovascular risk factors: heart failure, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, dyslipidemia and hypertension.

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Physiologically Speaking

JULY 26, 2024

We talk about the ketogenic diet as a metabolic therapy for type 1 diabetes. Dozens if not hundreds of (albeit observational) studies have linked a short sleep duration to a number of health conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Welcome to the Physiology Friday newsletter.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Compared to White, black and Hispanic had higher rate of Diabetes, Hypertension and prior stroke (p<0.001). The rates of other risk factors (hyperlipidemia, smoking, illicit drug use, chronic heart failure, coronary artery disease, and atrial fibrillation) did not vary by race.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Exclusion criteria were pregnancy, lactation, intracerebral hemorrhage, atrial fibrillation, left ventricular clot, and cardioembolic stroke. Significant associations were found between recurrent ischemic events and hypertension (p=0.001), diabetes (p=0.033), and smoking (p=0.001). p<0.05).Results:The

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Hypertension Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Hypertension, Volume 80, Issue 12 , Page 2572-2580, December 1, 2023. BACKGROUND:The STEP (Strategy of Blood Pressure Intervention in the Elderly Hypertensive Patients) trial demonstrated that intensive systolic blood pressure (SBP) lowering has cardiovascular benefits. years, and 46.5% years, and 46.5%

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

New guidelines also: Classify “Elevated BP” between non-elevated BP and hypertension. Measuring eGFR and albuminuria is recommended for assessing kidney disease in all hypertensive patients. Advise increased potassium intake for hypertensive patients.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Propensity score-matched analysis (PSM) (1:1) was performed with matching for age, gender, race, BMI, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, hemoglobin level, low-density lipid (LDL) level, left ventricular ejection fraction, and various drugs including ACEi, ARBi, ARNI, beta-blockers, and diuretics.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Then identified clusters are predicted and tested in the learning set to evaluate their association with outcomes. Finally, the reproducibility of the results of cluster analysis is tested in an external cohort (validation set).

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Coronary Artery Disease Journal

JANUARY 11, 2024

They had significantly lower rates of diabetes and hypertension and higher rates of male gender and smoking compared to the older group. The very young group also had lower rates of CRF, previous MI and atrial fibrillation. We found that the ≤40-year-old group with MINOCA had 12% mortality rates during the follow-up.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Multivariate regression revealed that patients with anleft atrial LA diameter of > 4& cm (AOR 2.531, P = 0.003), patients who did not take B-blockers before surgery (AOR 1.1

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The British Journal of Cardiology

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The key risk factor for cardioembolic stroke is atrial fibrillation or flutter, and oral anticoagulation (OAC) is recommended in all but the lowest-risk patients with evidence of these arrhythmias. In patients with diabetes, good glycaemic control can reduce stroke risk. Strokes can be thrombotic, embolic or haemorrhagic.

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Circulation: Heart Failure

MARCH 8, 2024

The prevalence of HF risk factors was high: hypertension, 61.9%; former or current smoking, 53.7%; obesity 34.8%; diabetes; 24.7%; and chronic kidney disease; 22%. Overt cardiovascular disease, which ranged from 2.1% (HF) to 13.6% (atrial fibrillation), was less common. were female, 25.6% were Black, 12.8% were White.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Based on the points derived from the significant factors we assigned age≥65 =2, non-white race=2, hypertension=3, diabetes=4, body mass index ≥30 =2, coronary artery disease =2, atrial fibrillation =3, alcohol use=1, steroids=3 and presence of aura=2 to total 24 points.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

There were no significant differences between relevant comorbidities (including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, hyper-coagulopathy, or body mass index) of cases and controls. The average C2 tilt of cases was 22.9 degrees compared to 17.7 degrees in cases compared 10.5 degrees in controls.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Ensuring a follow-up neurology appointment within two weeks is vital to managing stroke risk factors like hypertension, diabetes, and atrial fibrillation. Introduction:Effective care transition for ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke patients post-hospital discharge is critical.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

The intervention group had a significantly lower rate of 1 year hospital readmission due to any cause (62.1% vs 69.3%, p=0.04).

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