Vascular Medicine News

Poverty and chronic inflammation together may have a “synergistic” impact leading to higher all-cause mortality, including a 127% increased heart disease mortality risk and a 196% higher risk for cancer mortality, according to data.

Elevated lipid levels were associated with worsening structural and functional cardiac damage in adolescents and young adults, though in the case of LDL, the relationship was partially mediated by elevated BP and fat mass, data show.

Cook Medical announced its hydrophilic selective catheter is available again for use in the U.S. and Canada.

Reduced blood lead in American Indians, a population that experienced increased chronic exposure, was associated with reductions in systolic BP and reduced interventricular septum thickness, researchers reported.

Compared with angiography, IVUS may improve care and outcomes of patients requiring interventional peripheral revascularization, according to an expert consensus roundtable sponsored by several medical societies.

Intensive BP lowering may be safe in patients with a history of cancer not currently receiving treatment, according to a post hoc analysis of the SPRINT trial published in Hypertension.

Adult survivors of childhood cancer with a high risk of cardiovascular disease may not be receiving proper cardiac testing, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Among adults presenting with chest pain, those with CAD confirmed by angiography had significantly lower levels of the cytokines interleukin-4 and interleukin-17 compared with those without CAD, data show.

Adults with ACS and acute decompensated HF are twice as likely to die of any cause within 1 year if admitted on weekends or holidays vs. weekdays, independent of age or hemodynamic status or traditional CV risk factors, researchers reported.

Statin therapy could lower the odds of blood clot formation conferred by hormone therapy in perimenopausal women, according to a case-control study published in JAMA Network Open.