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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...