Depression negatively impacts heart and stroke patients
Study Highlights:
- People with cardiovascular disease who haven’t been diagnosed with depression but are at high-risk for it are more likely to report worse healthcare experiences and use emergency room services more often than those diagnosed with depression.
- Heart attack patients diagnosed with depression are more likely to be hospitalized, use emergency rooms and annually […]
Out-of-pocket expenses for chronic heart disease care inflict heavy financial burdens for low-income families; even those with insurance
Study Highlights:
- 1 in 4 low-income families experience significant financial burden from out-of-pocket expenses for treatment of chronic heart disease.
- 1 in 10 low-income families, including those with insurance, experience catastrophic financial burden for treating chronic heart disease conditions.
- Low-income families with insurance had higher rates of out-of-pocket expenses than those without insurance.
Embargoed until 11:00 a.m. […]
Vegetables may help protect elderly women from hardening of neck arteries
Study Highlight:
- Eating more cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli was associated with less carotid artery wall thickness among elderly women.
Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT / 5 a.m. ET Wednesday, April 4, 2018
DALLAS, April 4, 2018 — Elderly Australian women who ate more vegetables showed less carotid artery wall thickness, […]
Genetic test may improve post-stent treatment, outcome
Study Highlights:
- A test for specific genetic mutations successfully informed blood-thinner treatment selection following stent placement to open clogged blood vessels, leading to significantly fewer complications.
- Genetic testing identified patients with specific mutations that render the widely used blood thinner clopidogrel ineffective.
- Patients with the genetic mutations who received alternative medications were much less likely to […]
Higher blood pressure before pregnancy may increase miscarriage risk
Study Highlights:
- Higher blood pressure prior to conception may increase the risk of miscarriage, even in women not diagnosed with hypertension.
- The study involved women who had already experienced at least one pregnancy loss and were trying again.
- If confirmed, the findings imply that lowering heart disease risk factors in young adulthood may also improve reproductive […]
Heart defects in infant may predict heart problems in birth mother later in life
American Heart Association sends Arnold Schwarzenegger wishes for a speedy recovery following emergency heart surgery
DALLAS, March 30, 2018 — The American Heart Association is sending actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger best wishes, following media reports that he has undergone emergency open-heart surgery due to complications from another procedure.
Schwarzenegger, 70, who first grew to fame as a body builder, was reported have had a catheter […]
Heart disease, stroke less widespread among foreign-born vs. U.S.-born adults
Study Highlight:
- Rates of heart disease and stroke are less widespread among U.S. adults who were born in another country.
Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT / 5 a.m. ET Wednesday, March 28, 2018
DALLAS, March 28, 2018 — Foreign-born adults living in the United States had a lower prevalence of coronary heart […]
Treatment rates for dangerously high cholesterol remains low
Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT / 5 a.m. ET Monday, March 26, 2018
DALLAS, March 26, 2018 — Less than 40 percent of people with severe elevations in cholesterol are being prescribed appropriate drug treatment, according to a nationally representative study reported in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.
Data from the 1999-2014 National […]
Middle-aged tooth loss linked to increased coronary heart disease risk
Study Highlights:
- Losing two or more teeth during middle age is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk.
- Having fewer natural teeth by middle age is linked to higher cardiovascular disease risk.
Embargoed until 3 p.m. Central Time/4 p.m. Eastern Time, Wednesday, March 21, 2018
NEW ORLEANS, March 21, 2018 — Losing two or more teeth in […]