Several cardiovascular risk factors, such as advanced age and smoking history, are prevalent among lung cancer patients at the time of the diagnosis and increase their risk of future heart disease, ...

Restricting sodium content in processed foods reduced blood pressure (BP) in one study and using a salt substitute reduced risks of stroke recurrence and death in another study, both published Feb. 5 ...

Additional rhythm-control strategies are frequently continued after index ablation for atrial fibrillation (AFib), according to a study published Feb. 12 in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. One in ...

Overall cardiovascular hospitalization rates were 1.5-fold higher and income-based disparities were much greater in the U.S. compared with Denmark among patients aged ≥65 years, according to a ...

In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at cardiac rehabilitation for people with heart failure. He then discusses managing cardiovascular (CV) disease in cancer survivors who have completed cancer ...

Cardiovascular care delivered by the Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) is equivalent or better than that provided by non-VHA community care, according to a State-of-the-Art Review by the ACC ...

A novel causal machine learning algorithm can determine which patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) are more likely to benefit from left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) compared with ...

In a contemporary population of patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) treated with tafamidis, long-term mortality was relatively high, according to a multicenter study published ...

Studies examining the management of stable patients with an Impella 5.5 on stepdown care, application of innovative technologies to stratify risk and manage heart failure (HF), and more are being ...

In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at tighter blood pressure control in patients who are postpartum. He then discusses beta blocker therapy in patients with Takotsubo syndrome. Finally, Dr. Eagle ...

This Heart Failure (HF) Awareness Week, the ACC acknowledges all sites dedicated to streamlining processes and improving quality of care with ACC's Heart Failure Accreditation. "The outpatient ...

Electrosurgical leaflet laceration and stabilization of the implant (ELASTA-Clip) followed by transapical transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) is a feasible and less invasive option for ...