Heart Disease

Recently, there have been a number of cases in which high-profile athletes have had sudden cardiac arrest due to a variety of causes.

Adhering to a healthy lifestyle could reduce coronary heart disease risk regardless of genetic susceptibility to abdominal obesity, according to the results of research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

PHILADELPHIA — A woman’s reproductive history, including the timing of menarche, menopause and any pregnancy complications, may reveal short- and long-term cardiometabolic and cardiovascular risk trajectories, according to a speaker.

A study of more than 6,000 white-collar workers found that psychosocial stressors at work raised men’s risk of coronary heart disease while having an inconclusive impact on women.

An analysis of online conversations among health care professionals on social media in June revealed overwhelming support for FDA approvals of therapies for prostate cancer and lymphoma.

Among people with diabetes, higher loneliness scores, but not isolation scores, were associated with greater risk for CVD, suggesting the quality but not quantity of relationships can impact disease risk, researchers reported.

Women were more likely to develop CVD or atrial fibrillation if they had irregular menstrual cycles — shorter than 21 days or longer than 35 days — in a prospective study of UK Biobank data, researchers reported.

In 2020, heart disease remained among the leading causes of death, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have exacerbated preexisting CVD morbidity-related racial and ethnic disparities.

From 2021 to 2022, the overall death rate in the United States decreased about 5% and COVID-19 death rates nearly 50%, according to research published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Cardiac structure and function significantly correlated with risk of kidney failure with replacement therapy, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.