Cardiology Headline News

ATLANTA — A small study that involved participants eating a dozen fortified eggs per week demonstrated modest potential for improved cholesterol vs. a non-egg supplemented diet, a speaker reported.

Treating psoriasis with oral roflumilast may induce weight loss, positioning the drug as a potentially attractive alternative for patients with psoriasis, according to a study.

ChatGPT produced high-quality and accurate summaries of medical abstracts but struggled to classify the relevance of abstracts to medical specialties, a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine showed.

The FDA has approved sotatercept, an activin signaling inhibitor, for treating adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension, according to a manufacturer-issued press release.

“Knowledge and understanding of what preeclampsia can do during and after pregnancy and birth is critical.”

Environmental injustices such as air pollution and poor transport infrastructure may play a significant role in regional risk for cardiovascular disease and risk factors for it, researchers reported.

Elixir Medical announced it received breakthrough device designation FDA for its novel adaptive implant for the treatment of narrowed or blocked below-the-knee vessels in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia.

Nontraditional risk factors such as migraine, valvular heart disease and thrombophilia may be linked to increased risk for stroke among younger adults, researchers reported.

Artificial intelligence analysis of a single chest radiograph may predict 10-year CVD risk beyond the traditional atherosclerotic CVD risk calculator, even among individuals with missing electronic medical record data, researchers reported.

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