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 ...

Cardiology asked Fry, members of the Task Force, as well as other College leaders, for their thoughts on what it will take to navigate this crisis. Specifically, we take a deeper look at the Task ...

Chest pain is one of the most common reasons that people seek medical care. This guideline was developed for the evaluation of acute or stable chest pain in outpatient and emergency department ...

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 ...

The following are key points to remember from the 2021 American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement on dietary guidance to improve cardiovascular health: Adjust energy intake and expenditure ...

Central Illustration: Racial Disparities in Hypertension in a Snapshot. Major factors (red), reasons for worse outcomes (yellow) and future directions for improving disparities in ethnic minorities ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

ACC/AHA Guidance for Preventing Heart Disease, Stroke Released Adopting heart healthy habits, understanding risk and rarely using aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke among ...

Consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverages, potato chips and packaged cookies, may be associated with adverse health outcomes, according to research being presented at the ...

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 ...