Tag: cardiovascular disease
Combination-drug therapy and earlier detection recommended to improve outcomes in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia
1. A significantly greater proportion of patients receiving 2-3 lipid lowering medications achieved LDL-cholesterol targets compared to those receiving monotherapy. ...
Fixed-dose combination treatment with aspirin may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease
1. Risk of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke, and revascularization was lower in the fixed-dose combination pill group compared to ...
Plant‐centered diet and risk of incident cardiovascular disease during young to middle adulthood
1. Long term consumption of a nutritionally rich, plant-centered diet starting in young adulthood was associated with a reduced risk ...
Being born small for gestational age associated with reduced exercise capacity among young adults
1. The study found that young adults born small for gestational age had reduced exercise capacity, with reduced maximal workload, ...
Cycling is associated with reduced all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in individuals with diabetes
1. Time spent cycling was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease-specific mortality in this multicenter European cohort study of ...
Coronary artery calcium scoring associated with significant improvements in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease reclassification when guiding statin therapy
1. The use of coronary artery calcium scoring was associated with significant improvements in the reclassification and discrimination of incident ...
Bariatric surgery associated with improvement in macrovascular and microvascular function across subgroups of patients with obesity and cardiovascular risk
1. Weight loss surgery was associated with significant improvement in both macrovascular and microvascular function across subgroups of sex, race, ...
Coronary artery disease common in hospitalized patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
1. In this cohort study, 91% of patients with preserved ejection fraction heart failure had evidence of epicardial coronary artery ...
Hospital admission rates for non-COVID-19 diseases have decreased since start of pandemic in Denmark
1. Retrospective analysis of hospital records showed decreased hospital admission rates for non-COVID-19 diseases in Denmark since the first lockdown. ...
