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Music boosts effect of anti-hypertensive drugs on heart rate
Anti-hypertensive drugs improve heart rate more in patients who listen to music after taking medication, possibly by acting on the parasympathetic system, increasing their...
Meat protein increases CVD risk by 60% but nut and seed protein beneficial
A large US/French study found that meat protein is associated with a 60% increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) while while people who consumed...
Many patients needing statins don't take them
Many patients with dangerously high cholesterol or a genetic predisposition to it don’t take statin drugs that can lower cholesterol, a US study suggests....
Canakinumab slashes risk of cardiovascular events in diabetes and CKD patients
Two new analyses of data from more than 10,000 heart attack survivors worldwide were presented by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital at the...
Combination pill significantly lowers blood pressure
A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-lowering medications significantly increased the number of patients reaching blood pressure targets compared with usual care,...
Gout drug raises the risk of death
Febuxostat, a gout drug that has been in use for nearly a decade, was found to significantly increase the risk of death, even though...
Large data-set studies on CVD and multi-morbidity
PLOS Medicine has published a special issue on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and multi-morbidity, with three studies using data drawn respectively from the UK Clinical...
Migraine associated with increased CVD risk
Migraine is associated with increased risks of cardiovascular problems, including heart attacks, stroke, blood clots and an irregular heart rate, say researchers. Although the...
'Explosive evolution' in blood flow restoring techniques
Recent decades have seen an "explosive evolution" of techniques to restore blood flow to areas of the brain endangered by stroke or clogged arteries,...
Sauna benefits akin to those of medium-intensity exercise
As well as previously identified benefits, a Finnish study has found that sauna bathing for 30 minutes reduces blood pressure and increases vascular compliance, while...
DVT patients could wear compression stockings for shorter time
Even though many patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) are told to wear compression stockings for two years to prevent complications, a Dutch study...
Corrective statements from Big Tobacco
The court-ordered publication of "corrective statements" by major US tobacco companies month should serve as a reminder that tobacco addiction remains a major health...
If you want a heart, get a dog
A team of Swedish scientists has used national registries of more than 3.4m Swedes aged 40 to 80 to study the association between dog...
Giving up daily aspIrin may increase heart attack and stroke risk by 37%
In long-term users - heart attack survivors and people at high risk for one - discontinuation of low-dose aspirin in the absence of major...
Tall people more likely to develop blood clots
The taller you are, the more likely you may be to develop blood clots in the veins. In a study of more than 2m...
Calcium in arteries influences heart attack risk
Patients without calcium buildup in the coronary arteries had significantly lower risk of future heart attack or stroke despite other high-risk factors such as...
New early warning test for coronary artery disease
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new type of imaging test to provide an early warning of coronary artery disease, and...
Increased fruit and veggies uptake reduces PAD risk
Eating more fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a study of more than 3.6m individuals in...
Stroke cases to rise by a third in Europe by 2035
By 2035 the number of new strokes across Europe is likely to increase by a third and in the UK, this figure could jump...
In good health in middle age equals a longer, healthier life
Individuals in favourable cardiovascular health in early middle age live a longer, healthier life free of all types of morbidity.
A new study suggests that...
'Real' food and daily walks best for coronary artery disease
It is time to shift the public health message in the prevention and treatment of coronary artery disease away from measuring serum lipids and...
Aspirin therapy may not help patients with PVD – meta-analysis
Aspirin use in peripheral vascular disease (PVD) might not be associated with improved cardiovascular outcomes or worse bleeding outcomes, a University of Florida Health...
Patching heart with cell sheets could help prevent heart failure
Patching the heart with sheets of patients' own cells might improve symptoms in some cases of severe heart failure, Reuters Health reports an early...
Moderate drinking protects against some but not all heart disease
Moderate drinking is associated with a lower risk of several – but not all – cardiovascular diseases, according to a large study of UK adults led...
Weight loss, especially with surgery, tied to lower risk of heart failure
Obese people who get surgery to lose weight have half the risk of developing heart failure compared to patients who make lifestyle changes to...
Gene-silencing drug helps to halve cholesterol levels
The first in a new class of gene-silencing drugs, known as inclisiran, has halved cholesterol levels in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease. The...
Evolocumab with statins slashes cholesterol, reduces major CV events
Added to statins, the drug evolocumab decreased major cardiovascular (CV) events by cutting bad cholesterol to unprecedented levels, found the FOURIER trial on 27,000...
Physical activity protects for CVD risk even in the obese
The benefits of physical activity may outweigh the impact of overweight and obesity on cardiovascular disease (CVD) in middle-aged and elderly people, according to...
Pre-eclampsia substantially increases heart disease risk in later life
Pre-eclampsia is associated with a four-fold increase in future incident heart failure and a two-fold increased risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and death...
Less scarring with new coronary artery graft technique
A new technique for coronary bypass surgery shows a reduction in problematic scar tissue growth, found a Norwegian study.
Surgeons often take a blood vessel from...
New country-specific CVD risk charts
Researchers have produced the first set of risk charts for 182 countries to predict their patients’ 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
These will be...
Beta-blockers not successful in treating hypertension
A Cochrane Review of studies into beta-blockers, mostly atenolol, found that they were not as good at preventing the number of deaths, strokes, and heart...
Novel catheter-based approach for cardiac birth defect
A new minimally invasive technique for repairing the most common cardiac birth defect in extremely premature newborns can be performed safely with a high...
Intense anger increases heart risk eightfold
University of Sydney research has found that the risk of a heart attack is 8.5 times higher in the two hours following a burst of intense anger.
Clot busting medications reduce pulmonary embolism deaths
Bringing clarity to a decades-long debate, researchers led from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that adding clot-busting medications...