Cardiology Headline News

Men’s health has been declining for years in the United States, and health literacy may play an unexpectedly large role, according to experts.

Patients with nonobstructive coronary artery disease often wait years for a diagnosis and experience marked decline in quality of life, according to a speaker at the World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease.

Genetically predicted major depression may present in women, but not men, with increased risk for arrhythmia disorders, coronary artery disease and heart failure, and risk may vary based on menopausal status, researchers reported.

Incretin-based obesity medications are targeted at appetite signaling in a person’s brain, altering energy equilibrium and allowing greater weight loss than lifestyle intervention, according to a speaker.

A majority of patients expressed a desire to be notified when asked about the use of AI in health care, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

As many as 15 million adults in the United States have a 10% or greater risk for heart failure, results of a research letter published in Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

Johnson & Johnson MedTech announced the FDA has approved an expanded indication and granted premarket approval for its heart pumps to be used to treat pediatric patients with symptomatic acute decompensated HF and cardiogenic shock.

New guidance on primary prevention of stroke from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association states women with endometriosis and early menopause are at higher risk, requiring a thorough history and tailored management.

Continuous glucose monitoring can lower mortality risk in addition to improving glycemic control for people with diabetes, according to a speaker at the World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease.

In older adults, particularly Black adults, elevated blood pressure variability was associated with lower cognitive score at follow up, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.