Cardiovascular Mortality

Ferric carboxymaltose vs. placebo in iron-deficient patients with acute HF.

Fatal outcomes in COVID-19 were associated with patients with CVD and risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes across all age groups, according to a meta-analysis.

Adults who were born extremely preterm or had an extremely low birth weight had worse CV profiles compared with adult controls, according to findings published in Hypertension.

Supplementation in iron-deficient patients hospitalized with acute HF reduced subsequent HF hospitalization by approximately 26% compared with placebo, according to findings from the AFFIRM-AHF trial.

Cardiorespiratory fitness appears to be more important for CVD and CHD survival than weight or BMI, which may explain the existence of the obesity paradox, a speaker reported.

Compared with never smokers, current smokers had elevated risk for CV mortality, which was higher the earlier a person began smoking, researchers reported.

Although typically a benign finding, right bundle branch block may be associated with increased risk for low exercise tolerance, CVD and death, even in patients with no prior CVD, researchers reported.

Adults who napped longer than 1 hour per day had elevated risk for CVD and mortality compared with those who did not nap at all, according to a meta-analysis presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

People who experience food insecurity in the United States may be more likely to experience all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, according to a study published in Health Promotion Practice.

Researchers observed no temporal trends in HRs regarding the link between atrial fibrillation and all-cause mortality in participants from the Framingham Heart Study.