Cardiology News

Large floods over the last 2 decades corresponded with increased rates of death from injuries and other causes vs. normal conditions in the U.S., a retrospective analysis published in Nature Medicine revealed.

Patients aged 65 years and older who use acetaminophen demonstrate greater risks for serious complications, including hypertension, chronic kidney disease and gastrointestinal bleeding, noted a study published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Colchicine for gout flare prophylaxis reduces the risk for cardiovascular events among patients initiating urate-lowering therapy, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Time-restricted eating, particularly among people with underlying metabolic disorders, may confer benefits beyond weight loss, according to a speaker at World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease.

Maintaining healthful behaviors may be key to improving the trajectory of heart health from early adolescence into adulthood, according to study findings published in JAMA Cardiology.

People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk for death from all causes compared with those who do not drink coffee at all, results from an observational cohort study published in the European Heart Journal showed.

A daily polypill was estimated to be cost-effective for primary CVD prevention among U.S. adults living in historically underserved communities with limited health care access and low income, researchers reported.

Women with high prepregnancy BMI have higher stillbirth and perinatal death risks, but this association weakens with chronic hypertension presence, becoming similar or reversing at 26 to 35 weeks’ gestation, researchers reported.

Women diagnosed with advanced breast cancer appeared more likely than those with earlier-stage breast cancer to have pre-existing cardiovascular disease, according to results of a retrospective study.