Pulmonary And Cardiovascular Mortality

Age-adjusted mortality rates for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis decreased from 2004 to 2017 in the United States, according to a new study published in CHEST.

New data suggest that the decreasing trend of pulmonary embolism-related mortality in North America slowed after 2006 among young and middle-aged adults in the United States and plateaued among older adults.

Serum folate levels between 4.3 ng/mL and 8.2 ng/mL and greater were associated with a lower cardiovascular mortality risk among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

There is no evidence that low-dose aspirin helps prevent ischemic cardiac death among black adults, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Air pollution may be associated with mortality in patients after undergoing a heart transplant, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

PHILADELPHIA — Compared with moderate-intensity continuous training and controls who received advice based on national physical fitness standards in Norway, 5 years of supervised high-intensity interval training was associated with improved rates of all-cause mortality in older adults.