Heart Disease

The presence of kidney lesions correlates with a risk for heart disease in patients who have chronic kidney disease, according to data published in JAMA Cardiology.

Every additional 500 steps walked could reduce the risk for a CVD event by about 14% in older adults, according to a presenter at American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions.

Testing for coronary heart disease within 12 months before kidney transplantation did not correlate with a change in death or myocardial infarction within 30 days after the transplant, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Spaceflight may place astronauts at increased risk for developing mutations that can lead to cancer and heart disease, according to a study published in Nature Communications Biology.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Patients with asthma had a greater risk for ischemic heart disease compared with those without asthma, according to speaker at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

The risk for heart disease, stroke, disability and mortality among adults with diabetes is higher for those diagnosed at age 50 to 59 years than those diagnosed at age 70 years or older, according to study findings.

Patients who received the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin for childhood cancer and harbor a specific genetic mutation near the KCNK17 gene experienced significantly greater risk for heart disease later in life, study results have shown.

The United States House of Representatives recently passed a bill that aims to address the disproportionate impact of heart disease in the South Asian population.

In the first 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease accounted for one in eight deaths and was the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In the long-term surveillance of pediatric cancer survivors, clinicians cannot necessarily be reassured by the appearance of wellness.