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Science Daily - Heart Disease
JULY 15, 2024
According to a new study, both 30-year risk for cardiovascular disease in addition to 10-year risk may be considered in making decisions about when to initiate high blood pressure medication.
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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Disruptions of blood pressure (BP) circadian variation are closely associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Thus, gaining insights into the molecular mechanisms of BP circadian variation is essential for comprehending BP regulation.
American Heart News - Heart News
JULY 15, 2024
Research Highlights: A comparison of two tools for calculating cardiovascular disease risk found that if only the current 10-year risk thresholds are applied, fewer adults may be recommended for blood pressure-lowering medication. The tools, The.
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JAMA Cardiology
JANUARY 21, 2025
This cohort study investigates the association of supine hypertension with cardiovascular disease and mortality in middle-aged adults.
Open Heart
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
This study aimed to evaluate the risk factors associated with LV mass and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, in an Asian population free of baseline cardiovascular disease.
Science Daily - Heart Disease
JUNE 4, 2024
Driven by an older, more diverse population, along with a significant increase in risk factors including high blood pressure and obesity, total costs related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) conditions are likely to triple by 2050, according to recent projections. At least 6 in 10 U.S.
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Science Daily - Heart Disease
JUNE 19, 2024
Women diagnosed with perinatal depression are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in the following 20 years compared to women who have given birth without experiencing perinatal depression. The study is the first of its kind to look at cardiovascular health after perinatal depression and included data on around 600,000 women.
Medical Xpress - Cardiology
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Certain genes associated with hypertension affect blood pressure from early in life, and they increase the risk of cardiovascular disease as you get older. But you can do something about it.
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Circulation
APRIL 10, 2025
The purpose of this American Heart Association science advisory is to describe the existing evidence on device-measured sedentary behavior and light-intensity physical activity in relation to cardiovascular health during pregnancy and to make specific calls to action for future research to improve health outcomes and to promote health equity.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
However, it remains unclear which type of exercise is most effective for managing AS, particularly in individuals at high risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). BackgroundPrevious studies have shown that exercise can improve arterial stiffness (AS).
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DAIC
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.
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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Metabolic syndrome, today affecting more than 20% of the US population, is a group of 5 conditions that often coexist and that strongly predispose to cardiovascular disease. How these conditions are linked mechanistically remains unclear, especially two of these: obesity and elevated blood pressure.
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American Heart News - Heart News
JUNE 4, 2024
ET Tuesday, June 4, 2024 DALLAS, June 4, 2024 — Driven by an older, more diverse population, along with a significant increase in risk factors including high blood pressure and obesity, total costs related to. Embargoed until 4 a.m.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
APRIL 4, 2024
Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and poses a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Paddy Barrett
APRIL 4, 2025
When it comes to a proper ‘explanation’ of cardiovascular disease or a ‘plan’ to address it, you will have to learn or address a lot of this on your own. Some doctors are less interested in cardiovascular disease; their particular interest may be in another area, e.g., migraines or gastrointestinal health.
Physiologically Speaking
OCTOBER 11, 2024
This was one of my main research interests in graduate school when I was involved in projects related to the effects of sleep deprivation on blood vessel function (endothelial function)—a major risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease. Does the same protective effect of exercise also extend blood pressure?
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DECEMBER 20, 2023
years; p < 0.001), had more cardiovascular risk factors, target organ damage and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in comparison with those without hypertension. Results A total of 8,066 patients were consecutively included, of whom 3,860 (48.0%) had hypertension. These patients were older (65.8 ± 10.9 vs. 51.6 ± 14.7
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Cardiovascular Diabetology
APRIL 23, 2024
The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and blood pressure (BP) are correlated and serve as risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The potential impact of BP status on the association between the TyG inde.
Science Daily - Heart Disease
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Hispanic/Latina women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) -- conditions marked by high blood pressure during pregnancy -- are more likely to have abnormalities in their heart structure and function decades later when compared with women without a history of HDP, according to a new study.
Journal of the American Heart Association
JANUARY 11, 2024
BackgroundChronic lead exposure is associated with both subclinical and clinical cardiovascular disease. We evaluated whether declines in blood lead were associated with changes in systolic and diastolic blood pressure in adult American Indian participants from the SHFS (Strong Heart Family Study).Methods
American College of Cardiology
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
The goal of the BPROAD trial was to determine the efficacy and safety of an intensive blood pressure (BP)-lowering strategy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension with respect to future cardiovascular disease (CVD) events.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Background Current clinical guidelines on cardiovascular disease (CVD) do not specifically address the female population. The aim of this consensus is to know the opinion of a group of experts on the management of CVD in women. Most of the non-consensus items (31.8%) belonged to group 3.
Medical Xpress - Cardiology
APRIL 7, 2025
The five classic risk factors for cardiovascular disease are well knownsmoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and underweight or overweight/obesity. All increase the likelihood of heart ailments down the road.
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DAIC
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 population could be affected by cardiovascular disease within the next 30 years, according to two new science reports. and Susan F. population.
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Open Heart
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Background High blood pressure (BP) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Adequate treatment of high BP should reduce the risk of CVD, but this association has seldom been assessed in a general population setting.
Medical Xpress - Cardiology
JULY 15, 2024
A comparison of two risk prediction tools used to calculate an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) suggests that the long-term, 30-year risk should be considered in addition to the short-term, 10-year risk to help inform when to begin medication therapy for stage 1 hypertension, or high blood pressure, according to new research (..)
Hypertension Journal
APRIL 2, 2025
BACKGROUND:Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) increase cardiovascular disease risk. Blood pressure (BP) trajectories 20 weeks gestation predict HDP outcomes. Hypertension, Ahead of Print. From lowest to highest BPT groups, hazard ratios ranged from 2.91 for preeclampsia, 4.20 for gestational hypertension, and 2.92
Heart BMJ
AUGUST 14, 2024
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk equations are useful to guide treatment decisions for blood pressure and lipid-lowering medications because they identify patients who are at high risk of CVD but do not have either blood pressure or cholesterol measurements above the levels when considering treatment as individual risk factors.
Medical Xpress - Cardiology
JULY 29, 2024
A recently unveiled cardiovascular disease risk calculator that measures a patient's risk for heart attack and stroke is better calibrated and more precise than its previous version, but if current treatment guidelines for cholesterol and blood pressure therapy remain unchanged, the new calculator may have unintended consequences, according to research (..)
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Cardiovascular Diabetology
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
The relationship between ankle blood pressure (BP) and cardiovascular disease remains unclear. We examined the relationships between known and new ankle BP indices and major cardiovascular outcomes in people w.
MIBHS
JANUARY 15, 2025
Smoking is a well-known health hazard, contributing to a wide array of diseases and conditions. Its effects on the heart are particularly alarming, as smoking significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and complicates medical procedures such as minimally invasive or bloodless heart surgeries.
American Heart News - Heart News
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Research Highlights: In a 3-year trial, intensive treatment with antihypertensive medication to reduce systolic blood pressure, the top number, to less than 120 mm Hg reduced cardiovascular disease events among people at high-risk for cardiovascular.
Heart BMJ
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The frequent concurrence of elevated blood pressure (BP) and type 2 diabetes markedly elevates the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality.
JAMA Cardiology
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Hypertension is the leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the US, affects 122 million adults, and is projected to exceed 180 million adults by 2050.
DAIC
MARCH 11, 2025
Resistant hypertension is defined by the American Heart Association as elevated blood pressure despite the use of three or more antihypertensive medications in different classes, including a diuretic. The Momentum trial, which will enroll 1,000 patients across 45 sites in the U.S.,
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Physiologically Speaking
JANUARY 10, 2024
Circadian rhythms in blood pressure and heart rate, among other functions, are crucial for cardiovascular health and preventing cardiovascular disease. This has profound implications for cardiovascular health. In general, light exposure increases nighttime blood pressure and heart rate.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
MARCH 14, 2025
BackgroundCommunity-based models of care with the involvement of pharmacists and other nonphysician healthcare professionals can help improve blood pressure (BP) control. Pharmacist care is one key element of the solution to the global burden of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.
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DAIC
AUGUST 14, 2024
15, 2024 — According to a new study being presented at ACC Asia 2024 in Delhi, India, drinking over 400 mg of caffeine per day on most days of the week could increase the susceptibility of healthy individuals to cardiovascular disease. All participants had their blood pressure and pulse measured and underwent a three-minute step test.
JAMA Cardiology
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
It found that targeting blood pressure below 130/80 mm Hg could sustainably reduce cardiovascular disease incidence by 25% and total mortality by 10%. Given frailtys impact on blood pressure and adverse health outcomes, its evaluation is essential for effective hypertension management in older adults.
Medical Xpress - Cardiology
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system is a hallmark sign of chronic kidney disease (CKD) that increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. People with CKD often have impaired sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity—a measure of how well the baroreflex system regulates blood pressure changes.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
MARCH 14, 2025
BackgroundObesity is a global epidemic and a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. This study aims to investigate the impact of weight loss after LSG on the left ventricular myocardial work (LVMW) in obese patients and explore the clinical value of the left ventricular pressure - strain loop (LV - PSL).MethodsThirty
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Open Heart
AUGUST 30, 2024
Background The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted cardiovascular disease management in primary care in England. Results The percentage of patients aged ≥45 years who had blood pressure screening recorded in the preceding 5 years decreased from 90% (March 2019) to 85% (March 2023).
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JANUARY 31, 2024
Background The level at which cumulative blood pressure (BP) can increase the risk of ASCVD in different age groups remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association of 10-year cumulative BP levels with the long-term risk of ASCVD of different age groups.
Medical Xpress - Cardiology
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Continuously monitoring a person's pulse can provide meaningful medical information, such as heart rate and, indirectly, blood pressure. However, pulse waves can vary dramatically from person to person and even within the same person at different times of day and during different activities.
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