Cardiology News

Rates of optimal CV health as determined by the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 among gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals vary by sex and sexual identity, researchers reported.

A recent study found that men were more likely than women to have cardiovascular complications during hospitalization with COVID-19.

Men with prostate cancer are likely to have poor control of modifiable CV risk factors, according to study findings published in JACC: CardioOncology.

Communication between cardiologists and general practitioners during the treatment of patients with non-acute chest pain was “suboptimal,” according to researchers.

Researchers reported finding higher rates of atrial fibrillation among a large primary care population compared with previous estimates in community-based research cohorts.

Higher intake of free sugars was linked to a higher risk for CVD, and substituting them with non-free sugars was inversely associated with both total CVD and stroke incidence, a recent study showed.

Compared with participants with regular sleep patterns, older adults with irregular sleep durations were more likely to have high coronary artery calcium burden and abnormal ankle-brachial index, researchers reported.

Drinking two to three cups of coffee every day helped maintain low blood BP, according to the results of a study published in Nutrients.

Optimizing a person’s CV health before they become pregnant, beginning as early as adolescence, can reduce risk for adverse outcomes during pregnancy and improve CV health for their offspring, researchers reported.

A research version of the artificial intelligence language model ChatGPT provided appropriate recommendations for most CVD queries, according to findings published in JAMA.