Cardiovascular Disorder
Impact of OSA on future cardiovascular events differs by BMI
Among adults with acute coronary syndrome not classified as having obesity, obstructive sleep apnea raised the risk for major cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events, according to results published in CHEST.
Interventional stroke program not superior to standard care at 1 year
No differences in incidence of vascular events were observed in adults with ischemic stroke who received interventional care compared with standard care 1 year after baseline assessment, data show.
Obesity medication use plummets after bariatric surgery; cardiovascular drug use rebounds
Patients who underwent bariatric surgery for morbid obesity had a “substantial and long-lasting reduction” of lipid-lowering and antidiabetic medication use compared with patients who did not undergo surgery.
‘Disentangling’ disease, treatments and comorbidities can reduce mortality in RMDs
Managing comorbidities is critical to minimizing deaths in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases, according to data presented at EULAR 2023 Congress.
Cardiac arrest occurs in one in 9,000 pregnant patients during hospital delivery
Cardiac arrest occurred in about one in every 9,000 delivery hospitalizations from 2017 to 2019 in the United States, and about seven in 10 women survived the event, according to the results published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
‘No clear increased risk’ for CV events with tofacitinib in ORAL Surveillance post-hoc
PHILADELPHIA — There is “no clear increased risk” for major adverse cardiovascular events associated with tofacitinib, according to a post-hoc analysis of the ORAL Surveillance trial presented at ACR Convergence 2022.
Patients with intracerebral hemorrhage at greater risk for cardiovascular events
Patients with stroke due to nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage had significantly higher rates of major adverse cardiovascular events, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.
Getting to the heart of CAR T-cell therapy’s cardiovascular risks
How much risk is too much? It depends on what is at stake.
2019: To close out a decade of progress, new ways of thinking about cardiology emerge
This interesting year was a fitting conclusion to an exciting decade. The Top 10 Stories of the Year in cardiology, selected by the Cardiology Today Editorial Board, represent well the changing landscape in our field.
CV implications of newer obesity medications
Obesity, recognized as a chronic medical condition, affects more than 30% of adults in the United States and directly contributes to increased risk for CVD.