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November 17, 2019
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Genetic variant that causes vegetables to taste bitter makes heart-healthy diet challenging for some

Genetic variant that causes vegetables to taste bitter makes heart-healthy diet challenging for some

PHILADELPHIA — People with a gene variant that makes certain vegetables taste bitter had lower vegetable intake compared with people without the variant, making adherence to a heart-healthy diet a challenge, according to data presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

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October 09, 2019
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Retinal vein occlusion linked to high cholesterol

Patients are at a higher risk of developing retinal vein occlusion if they have high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, according to a study conducted in the Department of Ophthalmology at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea.

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October 08, 2019
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Heart disease increases risk for severe skin reactions to allopurinol

Heart disease increases risk for severe skin reactions to allopurinol

Heart disease is associated with an increased risk for severe cutaneous adverse reactions to allopurinol, according to data published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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September 18, 2019
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Polypill strategy effective in US socioeconomically disadvantaged population

Polypill strategy effective in US socioeconomically disadvantaged population

Among a U.S. population of socioeconomically disadvantaged adults, a polypill-based strategy was associated with greater reductions in systolic BP and LDL compared with the usual care, according to findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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September 02, 2019
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Top stories in cardiology: ESC Congress presentations that may impact clinical practice, evolocumab effective for high-risk acute coronary syndrome

Among the top stories in cardiology last week were a preview of presentations from the European Society of Cardiology Congress that could affect clinical practice, and a randomized clinical trial presented at the ESC Congress that found evolocumab was well-tolerated and substantially reduced LDL levels when combined with statin therapy.

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August 27, 2019
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Heart disease deaths declining, but not as fast as before

Heart disease deaths declining, but not as fast as before

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.

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August 14, 2019
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Evinacumab reduces LDL by 49% on top of other therapies in HoFH

Regeneron announced top-line results of a phase 3 study showing that evinacumab, its investigational angiopoietin-like 3 antibody, reduced LDL by 49% in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia who were taking other medications.

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August 03, 2019
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VIDEO: Sex differences, barriers persist for women with heart disease

VIDEO: Sex differences, barriers persist for women with heart disease

SAN ANTONIO — In this video exclusive, Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, division chief of cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, physician executive director for Banner University Medicine Heart Institute and editor in chief of ACC’s CardioSmart, discusses the importance of considering sex-specific risk factors for CVD.

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August 01, 2019
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Biologic therapy for psoriasis reduces coronary inflammation

Biologic therapy for moderate to severe psoriasis reduced in coronary inflammation, as assessed by perivascular fat attenuation index via coronary CTA, a measurement that may be able to track response to CAD interventions, researchers reported in JAMA Cardiology.

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Ventricular fibrillation is often a fatal arrhythmia. It occurs when the ventricular rate exceeds 400.

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