In line with recent US recommendations, the newest European guidelines favour a wider pool of patients eligible for surgical and transcatheter interventions for valvular...Guidelines
The optimal first step to address mild to moderately elevated blood pressure (BP) and cholesterol in otherwise healthy adults is a “prescription” to sit less and...Harm Reduction
Alcohol appears to have an immediate – or near-immediate – effect on heart rhythm, significantly increasing the chance that an episode of atrial fibrillation (AFib)...
November 18th, 2020Aspirin added significantly to the benefits of a low-cost ‘polypill’ approach for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in an intermediate-risk population,...
Marijuana use is on the rise among baby boomers in the United States, especially men, according to a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, writes...Coronavirus
A study has found that high blood pressure medications are safe for patients with COVID-19 disease. Launched in response to a 17 March joint statement issued by the...Coronavirus
The woman was dying. New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital was about to call her husband and break the news that there was nothing left to try. Then Dr Hooman Poor took...
October 23rd, 2019
Blood pressure medication may confer a larger benefit if taken at night, rather than in the morning. A “robust” Spanish study of more than 19,000 patients...
March 27th, 2019Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have presented preliminary results of the Apple Heart Study, an unprecedented virtual study with over 400,000...
March 20th, 2019Research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 68th Annual Scientific Session found that people who took advantage of a midday snooze were more likely to...
