December 30, 2016August 24, 2022
Higher BMI Not a Risk Factor for Heart Attacks Among Identical Twins

Higher body mass index (BMI) does not increase the risk of heart attacks or death, but increases the risk of ... Read more
August 10, 2016August 10, 2016
AHA Launches New Campaign to Reduce Repeat Heart Attacks

The American Heart Association (AHA), with help from heart attack survivor Julie Kubala, of Superior, Wis., is launching a new educational campaign to ... Read more
July 28, 2016July 28, 2016
Program for Preventing Heart Attacks, Strokes Announces Participants

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced 516 awardees for a new program called the Million Hearts® ... Read more
July 20, 2016July 20, 2016
10 Major Risk Factors for Stroke Can Be Modified, Researchers Report

A new study called INTERSTROKE revealed that 10 modifiable risk factors account for 90 percent of strokes globally, with hypertension listed as ... Read more
July 13, 2016July 13, 2016
FDA Approves First Biodegradable, Absorbable Stent for Coronary Artery Disease

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first fully absorbable stent for treating coronary artery disease. The Absorb ... Read more
July 6, 2016July 7, 2016
Persistent Elevated Blood Pressure During Pregnancy Could Pose Cardiovascular Risk

A recent study showed that pregnant women who have persistent elevations in blood pressure may be at risk for developing metabolic ... Read more
June 29, 2016June 29, 2016
Virtual Heart Model To Help Study New Cardiovascular Therapies

A research team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) developed a detailed computer model that reveals how electrical ... Read more
June 22, 2016June 22, 2016
Risk of Heart Attack May Be Predicted by Blood Levels of Specific Antibodies, British Study Shows

Researchers at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London recently showed that high amounts of IgG and ... Read more
June 15, 2016June 15, 2016
Researchers Discover Factor Linked to Liver Cholesterol Release, a Possible Cause of Heart Disease

Researchers at the University of Central Florida recently identified a small protein that is crucial for the release of very low ... Read more
June 9, 2016June 9, 2016
Migraine Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds

The link between migraine and incidents of cardiovascular disease and related mortality in women was recently assessed in a study ... Read more
May 25, 2016May 25, 2016
Coronary Microvascular Disease in Women to be Studied at UTA with $308,000 Grant

Michael Nelson, assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) has been awarded a four-year $308,000 grant ... Read more
May 18, 2016May 18, 2016
EuroPCR 2016: EAPCI Courses Pumped With Innovative Interventional Cardiovascular News

The European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), is meeting ... Read more

January 28, 2015January 30, 2015

Internet Connected Cardiac Pacemakers Getting Closer To Reality

Scientists at UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country in the port city of Bilbao in northern Spain are designing a security protocol to protect information contained in pacemakers and other electronic ... Read more

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015

Study Shows Elevated Hypertension Risks Among Chronic Insomniacs

A new study entitled “Insomnia With Physiological Hyperarousal Is Associated With Hypertension” reports that chronic insomniacs who are hyper-alert have a higher risk to develop hypertension. The study was published ... Read more

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015

First Pediatric Heart Transplant Performed at Rady Children’s Hospital

A surgical team has successfully performed a heart transplant in an 11-year-old child at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, accomplishing the first ever procedure in a pediatric patient in the institution’s history. The hospital ... Read more

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015

Younger Adults with Isolated Systolic Hypertension are at Higher Risk for Cardiovascular, Coronary Heart Disease

A team of researchers led by Yuichiro Yano from the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago found that young and middle-aged adults ... Read more

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015

New Survey Tool Investigates Why Acute Heart Failure Patients “Bounce Back” to ERs

A new patient survey tool designed to assess factors that negatively impact acute heart failure patients’ self-care abilities after hospital discharge shows potential for improving patient outcomes and reducing the ... Read more

January 26, 2015January 26, 2015

Penn Research Team Finds Twitter Postings Can Predict Coronary Heart Disease Rates

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that monitoring traffic on the social networking service Twitter, in addition to its proven capacity to break and cover emerging news stories, ... Read more

January 26, 2015January 26, 2015

UT Southwestern Study Finds Prolonged Ventricular Assist Device Use Induces Heart Muscle Regeneration

A team of investigators at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas have found that prolonged use of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) by heart failure patients may induce ... Read more

Higher BMI Not a Risk Factor for Heart Attacks Among Identical Twins

AHA Launches New Campaign to Reduce Repeat Heart Attacks

Program for Preventing Heart Attacks, Strokes Announces Participants

10 Major Risk Factors for Stroke Can Be Modified, Researchers Report

FDA Approves First Biodegradable, Absorbable Stent for Coronary Artery Disease

Persistent Elevated Blood Pressure During Pregnancy Could Pose Cardiovascular Risk

Virtual Heart Model To Help Study New Cardiovascular Therapies

Risk of Heart Attack May Be Predicted by Blood Levels of Specific Antibodies, British Study Shows

Researchers Discover Factor Linked to Liver Cholesterol Release, a Possible Cause of Heart Disease

Migraine Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds

Coronary Microvascular Disease in Women to be Studied at UTA with $308,000 Grant

EuroPCR 2016: EAPCI Courses Pumped With Innovative Interventional Cardiovascular News