With timing that defies coincidence, the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) and International Society of Hypertension (ISH) posted on Dec. 17 new <link...
The group of experts who had constituted the JNC 8 panel, a team assembled in 2008 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to update official U.S. hypertension management guidelines, set the...
For patients who have resistant hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea, 3 months of treatment with continuous positive airway pressure significantly reduces mean and diastolic blood pressure and...
DALLAS – Roughly 10 years after going on statin therapy as children or adolescents, a group of Dutch patients with familial hypercholesterolemia already has a significantly lower cardiovascular event...
DALLAS – Rosuvastatin appears to reduce the risk of acute myocardial infarction in patients with ischemic heart failure, according to a meta-analysis of two landmark statin trials.
This finding is...
The three smoking cessation agents bupropion, varenicline, and nicotine replacement therapy did not raise the risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events in a network meta-analysis of 63 randomized...
DALLAS – It’s not obesity per se that affects cardiovascular risk, it’s where that excess body fat is stored, according to the results of a novel adipose tissue–imaging study.
Excess visceral...
CHICAGO – Consumption of an energy drink containing caffeine and taurine slightly, but significantly, altered left ventricular contractility in healthy volunteers, while consuming the same amount of...
"Metabolically healthy" overweight and obese patients may carry the same short-term risk as normal-weight patients for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events, but their weight puts...
