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Researchers have determined that the decline of age-adjusted mortality due to heart disease is slowing, which may mean that the American Heart Association’s strategic goal of a 20% reduction by 2020 is becoming more unlikely.

Longitudinal data revealed that individuals with ADHD were at higher risk for all-cause and cause-specific premature death, which may increase depending on the number of psychiatric comorbidities.

Patients who chronically used methamphetamine had maladaptive cardiac fibrotic remodeling which may be associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, according to data presented at the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions.