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UK mortality for 'low-risk' heart attacks up by 39% during pandemic — NHS analysis
The death rate for patients who experienced what is normally a lower-risk heart attack rose sharply during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in...
Once or twice weekly daytime nap linked to lower heart attack/stroke risk
A daytime nap taken once or twice a week may be associated with significantly lower risk of a cardiovascular disease event, finds Swiss research....
Cholesterol-cutting injections may cut risk of heart attacks
A new, currently-unlicensed drug treatment that works by "silencing" genes can help to halve levels of LDL cholesterol with just two injections per year,...
Alirocumab lowers risk of additional heart attacks or stroke
In a clinical trial involving 18,924 patients from 57 countries who had suffered a recent heart attack or threatened heart attack, researchers found that...
People with IBD have elevated risk of heart attack
An analysis of medical-record data from more than 17.5m patients found that people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at elevated risk for a...
Higher mortality risk for women in the year after a heart attack
Heart attacks pose a greater threat to women than to men. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has determined that in...
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...
Lack of sleep increases heart attack and stroke risk
A bad night’s sleep raises the risk of potentially fatal heart attacks and strokes, research has found. And experts warn that women are at...
Risk of heart attacks reversed
Previously reported increased risk of heart attacks among HIV-positive individuals has been largely reversed in recent years reports a large-sample Kaiser Permanente California analysis,
Workplace stress could increase heart attack and stroke risk
Stress at work may raise your risk of heart attack and stroke, but being unemployed might be just as unhealthy. Lead researcher Dr Sara...