Heart
- Fitness, not physical activity, mitigates negative effects of prolonged sitting
- Digestive byproduct may predict greater risk of death among PAD patients
- New statement provides guidance about potential interactions between statins and commonly prescribed heart disease drugs
- Contaminated devices putting open-heart surgery patients at risk
- Caffeine did not induce arrhythmia in trial with heart failure patients
- Avatar-based application improves symptom recognition in heart attack survivors
- 20% of emergency department visits preventable of which half are cardiovascular disease
- Ultraviolet air steriliser reduces sepsis and mortality in cardiac surgery patients
- Study finds variable accuracy of wrist-worn heart rate monitors
- Much of the social inequality in heart disease risk among UK women is due to smoking, obesity and physical inactivity
- Surgical procedure to fix aortic aneurysm associated with increased long-term mortality risk
- Smartphone app could be used to test for potentially fatal irregular heart rate
- Calcium supplements may damage the heart
- Maternal chronic disease linked to higher rates of congenital heart disease in babies
- Stem cell therapy regenerates primate hearts
- Emotional upset and heavy exertion may trigger a heart attack
- Lowering systolic blood pressure to below 120 would save more than 100,000 lives per year
- Targeting cardiovascular disease risk factors may be important across a lifetime
- World Heart Federation launches global ‘Roadmap’ to tackle atrial fibrillation – the most common form of irregular heartbeat
- Stroke vs. Heart Attack: How to Tell the Difference
- Milk intake is objectively not linked to increased cardiovascular risk
- Genetic links between birth weight and adult disease
- Certain NSAIDs may raise the risk of heart failure, study finds
- Mediterranean diet linked to reduced risk of CVD
- Pitt study of early onset menopausal symptoms could predict heart disease
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