American Heart News - Heart News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

found that using cannabis has a significant association with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, independent of tobacco use, with higher odds among the adults. Research Highlights: An analysis of survey data for 430,000 adults in the U.S.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JULY 3, 2024

Researchers have created a questionnaire test for home use that quickly identifies high risk of heart attack. A study shows that it has the same level of accuracy as blood tests and blood pressure measurements.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 8, 2024

Half of all patients discharged from hospital after a heart attack are treated with beta-blockers unnecessarily, new study suggests.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JUNE 6, 2024

Researchers found higher amounts of the sugar alcohol xylitol are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke. The team confirmed the association in a large-scale patient analysis, preclinical research models and a clinical intervention study.

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DAIC

APRIL 8, 2024

The TACT2 study was designed to replicate the results of a previous trial, TACT , which reported in 2012 that chelation reduced subsequent cardiovascular events after a heart attack. and Canadian patients with diabetes and a history of heart attack,” said Gervasio A. and Canada.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MARCH 5, 2024

Coronary artery calcium scoring with CT can identify symptomatic patients with a very low risk of heart attacks or strokes. Researchers said the findings may one day help some patients with stable chest pain avoid invasive coronary angiography.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A new, rapid blood test that spots whether people are having a heart attack could improve the treatment of people presenting with chest pain at emergency departments, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line Session Sept. 2 at this year's ESC Congress 2024.

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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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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Having a heart attack significantly increases the risk of developing other serious long-term health conditions, a major new study shows.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Using the results of a standard blood test and an online tool, you can find out if you are at increased risk of having a heart attack within six months.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 3, 2024

Swedish researchers have created a questionnaire test for home use that quickly identifies high risk of heart attack. A study shows that it has the same level of accuracy as blood tests and blood pressure measurements.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 12, 2023

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have created an "atlas of atherosclerosis" that reveals, at the level of individual cells, critical processes responsible for forming the harmful plaque buildup that causes heart attacks, strokes, and coronary artery disease.

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American Heart News - Heart News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Research Highlights: The risk of a heart attack among adults after a clot-caused stroke or a stroke plus a tear in the wall of a neck artery (carotid or vertebral artery dissection) was almost double within the first year compared to the heart attack.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 2, 2024

Selecting specific cells to be used in an investigational therapy has led to improved recovery of heart function in a new study employing a lab model for myocardial infarction, the medical term for heart attacks.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

APRIL 15, 2024

High degree of awareness of heart attack symptoms in the community will go a long way in seeking early treatment. For life threatening diseases like heart attack, early recognition of symptoms and prompt reporting to the emergency department is highly desirable.

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DAIC

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The typical survival rate of this deadly complication during a heart attack has historically hovered around 50%. Final results from the national study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association were achieved from looking at 406 patients from hospitals across 29 states. In the U.S.,

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Heart Sisters

DECEMBER 10, 2023

With apologies to Dr. Seuss, I offer my own poetic interpretation of what getting misdiagnosed in mid-heart attack can feel like for far too many women.

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DAIC

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The manuscript details how, when targeted specifically to the spleen, histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, chemical compounds that can be used to treat cancers and other diseases, have the potential to improve the healing response following a heart attack. MMRI scientists who contributed to the study include Jason R. McCarthy, Ph.D.,

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Using the results of a standard blood test and an online tool, you can find out if you are at increased risk of having a heart attack within six months. The tool has been developed by a research group at Uppsala University in the hope of increasing patients' motivation to change their lifestyles.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Air pollution is associated with significant increases in heart attacks among nonsmokers, according to a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022, held from Aug. 26 to 29 in Barcelona, Spain.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 29, 2024

Future heart attacks could be better prevented in people visiting their GP with unexplained chest pain, after Keele researchers developed the clearest picture yet of the factors that put them at higher risk. The research is published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 10, 2024

A new study shows that women lose more years of life after a heart attack than men. A 50-year-old woman with a large heart attack loses an average of 11 years, while an 80-year-old man with a small heart attack loses an average of 5 months of life.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 27, 2024

People with specific genetic traits and those who have anxiety or depression have a significantly higher heart attack risk during periods of social or political stress than at other times, according to a new study being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JUNE 14, 2024

Researchers have discovered a better way of identifying those at high risk of potential heart attacks and strokes and other major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JUNE 6, 2024

A low-calorie sweetener could be linked to nearly twice the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people who consume high levels of it, CNN reported June 6.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Published results of a large, national heart attack study show that patients with a life-threatening complication known as cardiogenic shock survived at a significantly higher rate when treated with a protocol developed by cardiologists at Henry Ford Health, in collaboration with 80 hospitals nationwide.

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DAIC

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.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Late December is typically a time when holiday stress and winter weather can collide, creating a perfect recipe for a rise in heart attacks and stroke.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MARCH 11, 2024

Doctors may be able to leverage the new insights to identify patients at greatest risk of having atherosclerotic plaques break free and cause heart attacks or strokes.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

AUGUST 15, 2024

Clogged arteries—which can lead to heart attacks and strokes—can begin to develop in young adulthood. But a new study suggests it may be less likely to happen to those who better adhere to a set of lifestyle behaviors and factors such as maintaining a healthy weight and controlling blood pressure and cholesterol.

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Med Page Today

JUNE 26, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Influenza infection was associated with an increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI), especially for those without a prior hospitalization for coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a Dutch observational case series.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Every year, around 50,000 people in the United States experience cardiogenic shock—a life-threatening condition, usually caused by a severe heart attack, in which the heart can't pump enough blood for the body's needs.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MARCH 13, 2024

Blockage of arterial blood vessels caused by atherosclerosis is largely responsible for heart attacks and strokes, which are the most common causes of death worldwide. The complex mechanisms that lead to pathological changes in the arteries are not yet fully understood.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to aid clinical decision making in identifying and managing myocardial infarction (MI; heart attack) in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with suspected cardiac conditions does not improve cardiovascular outcomes. 2 Sept.).

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Heart attack risk almost doubles in the first year after a stroke or when combined with a tear in a neck artery wall; however, a tear without a stroke does not seem to raise heart attack risk, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2024.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 4, 2024

Research into the protective effects of two anti-inflammatory molecules, transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF 1) and Heligmosomoides polygyrus TGM (HpTGM), following heart attack found that both proteins reduced the inflammatory response within the injured heart and reduced mature scarring.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Having a heart attack significantly increases the risk of developing other serious long-term health conditions, a major new study shows. Up to a third of patients went on to develop heart or kidney failure, 7% had further heart attacks and 38% died from any cause within the nine-year study period.

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