Pediatric Cardiology News

A study identified a link between poor sleep and hypertension in children and teenagers, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

Maternal and paternal metformin use during conception did not increase the risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes, two studies in Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

Among pediatric patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and elevated LDL despite optimal lipid-lowering therapy, evinacumab durably reduced LDL and other significant lipid parameters out to 72 weeks, a speaker reported.

In patients with long QT syndrome, vigorous exercise did not appear to increase CV event risk vs. nonvigorous exercise regardless of age, sex or genotype, according to new data from the LIVE-LQTS study presented at Heart Rhythm 2024.

High ultra-processed food consumption in young children is associated with adiposity and other cardiometabolic risk factors, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

No athlete with a positive test for genetic heart disease but a negligible clinical phenotype had a genetic heart disease-associated death or cardiac event in more than 1,500 person-years of follow-up, researchers reported.

A new guideline on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy endorses the use of cardiac myosin inhibitors for certain patients with obstructive HCM and encourages exercise in all patients with HCM.

TORONTO — Use of IV immunoglobulin with or without steroids was associated with reduced mortality among children with myocarditis compared with steroids alone, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

TORONTO — Children with high blood pressure are more likely to be at risk for a stroke, heart attack or other major cardiac event later in life, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

Arrhythmia disorders in patients with adult congenital heart disease may significantly contribute to hospitalization and mortality risk, according to data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.