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One of the most important questions physicians will need to answer is whether they will hire a financial advisor to help them manage their wealth or do it themselves.

SAN DIEGO — Exercise capacity improved among adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension taking a macitentan-tadalafil tablet over 68 weeks, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

BOSTON — Younger adults are at greater cardiovascular disease risk if they have obesity for 10 years, but a single excess weight measurement does not predict risk for heart-related events over time, according to data presented at ENDO 2024.

COVID-19 vaccination decreased the risk for CV events, hospitalization and death among patients with HF, according to a poster presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s Heart Failure 2024 meeting.

Consuming more flavonoids and flavonoid-rich foods such as tea, berries and apples was associated with a lower risk for type 2 diabetes, researchers found.

Statins were associated with a reduced risk for CVD and death in older adults, even those aged 85 years and older, data in Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

Patients with obesity are at increased risk for CVD, in part due to the promotion of an atherogenic lipid profile, according to a speaker.

A greater weekly intake of potatoes reduced the risk for all-cause mortality as well as mortality from CVD, ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction, a Norwegian-based cohort study showed.

In a study of Medicare beneficiaries, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that 6% of patients treated for heart failure progressed to dialysis within 1 year after hospitalization.

Women diagnosed with preeclampsia were 2.6 times more likely to develop early-onset dementia during 9 years of follow-up compared with women who did not have a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, according to registry data.