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When children aged 8 to 15 years were screened for risk for before participating in sports, the diagnostic yield for identifying those at risk was higher in those aged 12 years or older, researchers reported.

Data from a prospective study of Taiwanese adults suggest reducing prolonged sitting in the workplace by increasing the volume or intensity of physical activity may mitigate elevated risks for all-cause and heart-related death.

Researchers have developed and piloted a centralized care coordination program to prevent cardiovascular events in patients with psoriatic disease, according to a study.

Poverty and chronic inflammation together may have a “synergistic” impact leading to higher all-cause mortality, including a 127% increased heart disease mortality risk and a 196% higher risk for cancer mortality, according to data.

People who experienced the death of a sibling during childhood or early adulthood had a 17% greater risk for CVD, according to recent study findings.

High consumption of foods and beverages with added sugars such as syrups and caloric sweeteners was associated with increased risk for metabolic syndrome, according to data published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Exposure to plastics containing endocrine-disrupting chemicals added an estimated $249 billion to health care costs in the U.S. in 2018, according to study data.

Medical cannabis use for chronic pain may confer increased risk for de novo arrhythmia compared with nonuse or other treatments for chronic pain, researchers in Denmark reported.

Substance use-related CVD deaths increased at an average of 4% per year from 1999 to 2019, with alcohol and opioids the most common contributors, despite an overall reduction in CVD mortality in the U.S. during the same period, data show.

Postpartum women with chronic hypertension have an increased risk for CVD within the first year after childbirth, according to study results published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.