The HELP-PCI trial showed that in patients with STEMI, early administration of unfractionated heparin at first medical contact led to improved culprit artery TIMI flow before PCI but did not reduce ...

Lipoprotein (a) (Lp [a]) is a low-density lipoprotein–like molecule with an apolipoprotein (b) moiety that is covalently attached to apolipoprotein (a) (Apo [a]), a plasminogen-like protein that ...

Introduction Within the last 2 decades, the number of patients with diabetes quadrupled from 108 million to 422 million in 2014. 1 It is estimated that the burden of diabetes will continue to grow ...

Monica M. Colvin, MDAuthors: Heidenreich PA, Bozkurt B, Aguilar D, et al. Citation: 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of ...

Sitting Too Long Can Harm Heart Health, Even for Active People Approximately 10 hours or more of sedentary behavior per day is associated with heightened risk of heart failure and cardiovascular death ...

Contact: Olivia Walther, owalther@acc.org, WASHINGTON (Dec 11, 2023) - A world without cardiovascular disease (CVD) is possible, yet millions of lives are lost prematurely to heart disease each year, ...

Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) remains of utmost clinical importance; it is positioned in clinical trials as a treatment target and is emphasized in worldwide guidelines as the primary ...

Missed Opportunity: AEDs Near Cardiac Arrests Rarely Used by Bystanders Many out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occurred within a four-minute walk of a public AED, yet devices were seldom used ...

Large-scale COVID-19 vaccination using mRNA technology revealed a small but real risk of vaccine-associated myocarditis (VAM). Presenting at rates of less than 4 per 100,000 in the general population, ...

Contemporary management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) necessitates that clinicians grapple with the complex challenges of initiating and titrating guideline-directed medical ...

Even Moderate, Habitual Alcohol Consumption Can Cause Irregular Heartbeat A glass of alcohol a day does not keep AFib away ...

The replacement of regular salt with a salt substitute can reduce incidences of hypertension, or high blood pressure, in older adults without increasing their risk of low blood pressure episodes, ...