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Patients with type 2 diabetes uncontrolled by metformin who received pioglitazone and insulin demonstrated increased risk for ischemic heart disease, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications.

SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent COVID-19 are linked to elevated risk for abnormal heart rhythms, and understanding underlying mechanisms and management strategies are clinically important objectives, researchers reported.

PHILADELPHIA — With the 2025 GOLD report newly featuring a section dedicated to pulmonary hypertension, it is important that clinicians expand their knowledge of this comorbidity, according to a presentation.

CHICAGO — Adults who received bystander CPR within the first few minutes of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were much more likely to survive and have better brain function than those who did not, researchers reported.

Women with severe maternal morbidity after first childbirth have a lower likelihood of pursuing subsequent births, highlighting the need for reproductive counseling and better prenatal care, according to study results published in JAMA.

Irregular sleep cycles corresponded with increased risk for major adverse cardiovascular events like stroke or myocardial infarction, results from a population-based cohort study published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health suggested.

Aspirin was not linked to the risk of nonfatal atherosclerotic CVD or cardiovascular death in adults with chronic kidney disease, according to recently published data.

CHICAGO — High year-to-year cholesterol variability was linked to increased risk for cognitive decline and dementia among older adults, a speaker reported.

CHICAGO — Coronary CT angiography screening of asymptomatic adults with diabetes for coronary artery disease did not significantly lower mortality or nonfatal myocardial infarction risk, according to longer follow-up of the FACTOR-64 study.

Among nonexercising women, those who initiated a few minutes of vigorous lifestyle physical activity daily had substantially lower risk for any major adverse cardiovascular event, including myocardial infarction and heart failure, data show.