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For Medicare beneficiaries presenting with acute MI, HF or ischemic stroke, admission to a rural hospital was associated with lower procedure rates and greater risk for 30- and 90-day mortality compared with admission to an urban hospital.

Researchers observed no independent association between chronic kidney disease and pre- or post-event dementia among patients with transient ischemic attack and stroke, according to results of a population-based cohort study.

Diagnoses of cardiovascular issues plateaued during the COVID-19 pandemic, but diagnoses of cerebrovascular issues dropped sharply compared with pre-pandemic levels, per a population-based study published in Neurology.

Women who ever breastfed during their lifetime were less likely to develop CVD, CHD or stroke, or die of CV-related causes compared with parous women who never breastfed, data from a meta-analysis show.

Compared with manual contact catheters, robotic magnetic navigation reduced risk for silent cerebral embolism after atrial fibrillation ablation procedures, researchers reported in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.

Among patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, those with recent cannabis use were more likely to have delayed cerebral ischemia than those without recent use, researchers reported.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continued to dominate the news, more was learned about its CV implications over the past year. However, the year also featured a number of important developments in other realms of cardiology.

Psychosocial stress was significantly associated with CVD, as well as major CHD, stroke events and death in individuals from low-, middle- and high-income countries, according to a cohort study.

Healio and Cardiology Today have aggregated a list of the most-read news in cardiology of 2021.

Compared with drug therapy, there was age-based variation in catheter ablation clinical outcomes among patients with atrial fibrillation, with the largest benefits observed in younger patients, according to new data from the CABANA trial.