Cardiology News

Approximately 7.4 million patients are misdiagnosed in EDs every year, according to a report from the HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Gestational diabetes is associated with a high risk for long-term CV outcomes, according to a presentation at The Pregnancy Meeting this year.

In people with a family history of parental premature MI, aspirin for primary prevention was not associated with reduced CV events or overall mortality, according to data published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

When discussing high cholesterol with patients, physicians should consider the possibility of familial hypercholesterolemia, according to Ijeoma Isiadinso, MD, MPH, FACC, FASNC.

Dietary nitrates/nitrites from food additives were associated with greater risk for hypertension vs. naturally occurring nitrates/nitrites in food and water, researchers reported.

An FDA advisory committee declined to support an approval for the heart failure drug omecamtiv mecarbil, citing narrow benefits of the drug.

Even people without a history of heart disease could be vulnerable to atrial fibrillation when drinking more during the holidays, according to experts.

For those with substance use disorders, COVID-19 is a significant risk factor for endocarditis, researchers reported in Molecular Psychiatry.

Patients with rheumatic immune-mediated inflammatory disease who experience myocardial infarction are more likely to die or experience heart failure vs. patients without immune-mediated inflammatory disease, according to data.

A 6-month intervention with an exercise target of 10,000 steps per day may slow aortic root dilation in pediatric patients with Marfan syndrome, according to study data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.