Vascular Medicine News

Researchers in South Korea showed that statin therapy for treatment-naive patients with already low LDL hospitalized for first-time stroke may reduce risk for all-cause death in the following months.

Diagnostic testing for hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolemia remains low globally, driven by substantial shares of low- and middle-income populations who are not tested despite meeting WHO criteria.

Patients with minimally symptomatic status who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement were more likely to survive with good health status at 1 year than more symptomatic patients, researchers reported.

Compared with patients with type 2 MI or takotsubo syndrome, those with type 1 MI had higher in-hospital mortality rates, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Relative risk for venous thromboembolism appeared high among patients with COVID-19 and cancer who received specific cancer treatments, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued a final recommendation that all pregnant patients should have BP measured at each prenatal visit to identify and prevent complications of hypertensive disorders.

Data from qualitative interviews show parents and caregivers understand and worry about hypertension as a chronic disease, yet expressed little concern when high BP was noted for their children in the clinic, researchers reported.

Menstrual cycle irregularity and age at menarche were significantly associated with parameters of cardiometabolic health in early adulthood among a mostly Black cohort of young women, researchers reported.

The risk for death and hospitalizations due to cardiovascular disease in patients with obstructive sleep apnea decreased with use of CPAP, according to a presentation at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Patients with moderate to severe aortic stenosis had similar outcomes to patients with severe aortic stenosis, whereas those with moderate aortic stenosis were comparable to those with mild aortic stenosis, researchers reported.