Cardiology News

NEW ORLEANS — Increased neighborhood connectedness of people of lower and higher socioeconomic status via Facebook friendships was associated with lower county-level prevalence of CV death, a speaker reported.

For men, having overweight during childhood and young adulthood was a strong determinant for experiencing venous thromboembolic events later in life, according to the results of a study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine.

NEW ORLEANS — With the use of cognitive behavioral therapy, a smartphone app helped patients with type 2 diabetes reduce HbA1c with less medication and insulation intensification vs. controls, a speaker reported.

NEW ORLEANS — Lifelong bachelor status was associated with elevated risk for mortality in men, but not women, with heart failure, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

A commercial water purifier was possibly responsible for infections among four patients undergoing cardiac surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, three of whom died, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Many patients at risk for CVD, particularly women, did not accept statin therapy recommended to them by their health care provider, data show.

NEW ORLEANS — Elite athletes with genetic risk for sudden cardiac death can safely return to play with a shared decision-making model that includes careful evaluation, risk stratification and tailoring of genetic heart disease therapy.

Every additional 500 steps walked could reduce the risk for a CVD event by about 14% in older adults, according to a presenter at American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions.

Visceral adipose tissue plus circadian misalignment — delayed and irregular sleep midpoints — is associated with increased blood pressure among adolescents, according to a study published in Hypertension.

NEW ORLEANS — Certain traditional risk factors including severe high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension and smoking may increase CV risk among those following a low-carbohydrate, high-fat “keto-style diet,” a speaker reported here.