PARIS – Greater walking disability is an independent predictor of all-cause death and major cardiovascular events in patients with symptomatic hip or knee osteoarthritis, according to a...
Nearly six of every seven patients presenting to U.S. emergency departments with acute heart failure are admitted. This means acute heart failure is "a major challenge" to emergency...
WASHINGTON – Patients presenting with chest pain with a negative ECG and an undetectable blood level of cardiac troponin T on a high-sensitivity assay had virtually no risk of a myocardial infarction...
The Food and Drug Administration’s long-awaited proposal to regulate e-cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products as if they were cigarettes does not go far enough to protect the public, and...
U.S. adults who take statins consumed 14.4% more fat and 9.6% more calories in 1999-2000 than a decade earlier, while the prevalence of statin use more than doubled during that time, investigators...
Among patients who don’t have diabetes, high-normal hemoglobin A1c levels (at or above 5.8%) are strongly correlated with the risk of coronary artery disease, according to a report published online...
WASHINGTON – About 18% of U.S. patients with atrial fibrillation also have a diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea, and the confluence of the two appeared linked to increased hospitalizations and...
WASHINGTON – Allopurinol has no effect on heart failure, according to results from the multicenter, double-blind EXACT-HF study.
"In heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction and...
WASHINGTON – Long-term dual-antiplatelet therapy may provide a mortality benefit over aspirin alone in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease.
In an observational study of 629 patients...
WASHINGTON – High-risk patients managed to a target LDL particle number rather than to an LDL cholesterol goal had 25% fewer cardiovascular events over 3 years of follow-up.
"These new data...