Cardiology News

SAN FRANCISCO — Effective strategies to prevent and manage hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are often underutilized, but a new CDC initiative aims to harness solutions that work and package them in one place for busy clinicians.

Patients with both diabetes and CAD appeared at significantly greater risk for dementia, especially vascular dementia, according to study findings published in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Individuals prescribed the antidiabetes treatment metformin less likely developed a myeloproliferative neoplasm —potentially also reducing a person’s chances for developing certain cancers — according to data published in Blood Advances.

In patients with type 2 diabetes who underwent ablation for atrial fibrillation, those taking a GLP-1 receptor agonist had lower risk for AF recurrence, mortality and other outcomes, researchers reported at Heart Rhythm 2024.

Women reporting irregular menstrual cycles with or without diagnosed polycystic ovary syndrome are more likely to have cardiometabolic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, according to new data from the Apple Women’s Health Study.

Although the rate of heart attacks in the United States has declined by 50% in the last 20 years, patients from low-income households had significantly higher odds of mortality than patients from high-income households.

In patients with the obesity phenotype of HF with preserved ejection, semaglutide 2.4 mg improved HF-related symptoms and physical limitations vs. placebo regardless of diuretic use, according to new data from the STEP-HFpEF trials.

Attaining systolic BP between 110 mm Hg and 130 mm Hg was associated with higher probability of surviving to 90 years of age among women aged 65 years and older, according to results of a real-world study published in Circulation.

Patients with systemic sclerosis who demonstrate left ventricular abnormalities, either overt or “subclinical,” have poorer survival and increased shortness of breath, according to data published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

BOSTON — Life’s Essential 8, a campaign led by the American Heart Association, is an assortment of interventions “we can all follow” and “associated with much better outcomes,” Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACP, MACC, FAHA, FHFSA, said.