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Reductions in air pollution were associated with lower rates of STEMI, a trend which manifested during the shutdowns at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

The use of illicit drugs and excess alcohol was associated with elevated risk for hospitalization for incident atrial fibrillation, according to two studies presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Patient-selected trigger testing for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation did not improve AF-related quality of life, but the process was tied to fewer self-reported AF events in the weeks after trial participation, a speaker reported.

Young, healthy adults experienced no increase in atrial arrythmias and less supraventricular tachycardia on days they consumed vs. abstained from caffeinated coffee as well as an increase in wearable-measured physical activity in the CRAVE study.

Unemployment and poverty can be significant drivers of poor outcomes in conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, according to a keynote lecture at ACR Convergence 2021.

In a video interview, Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, discussed his session from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference on why nurses are well-suited to deliver psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to psychiatric patients.

Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, discussed one of his presentations from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference in a video interview with Healio.

A hypertension self-management program using a digital app was associated with BP reductions at 1 year, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

Almost 30% of patients did not attend a telehealth visit at a urology clinic within a safety-net hospital in San Francisco during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a cross-sectional analysis showed.

Finding that patients in underrepresented groups had similar or better kidney care than white patients, researchers contended differences in care delivery cannot explain observed racial and ethnic disparities in disease progression.