Heavily processed foods may raise heart disease risk beyond poor nutrition alone
A new review links ultra-processed foods and their additives to higher cardiovascular risk, pointing to large human studies…
Medicare reforms improve medication adherence among older adults with heart disease
Medicare beneficiaries with heart disease or major cardiovascular risk factors reported less cost-related medication non-adherence-skipping or reducing doses,…
Multiview deep learning improves detection of major cardiac conditions from echocardiography
Cohort selection and data sources Our UCSF echocardiogram dataset comprised studies acquired on adult patients at UCSF between…
‘How low can you go?’ The shifting guidelines for blood pressure control
The patient initially came to see Mark Supiano in 2017 because her family was concerned about her short-term…
Living Heart Project Builds Virtual Twins for Medicine
One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more…
Young women face rising mortality rates from high blood pressure
Nearly 1 in 2 Americans has high blood pressure—sometimes called the “silent killer” because it harms the heart…
Early morning workouts may improve cardiometabolic health
People who regularly exercised early in the morning were significantly less likely to have coronary artery disease, high…
Blood pressure readings may help identify future dementia risk
Measures of blood vessel health derived from routine blood pressure readings may help identify adults at increased risk…
Sutter Health expands cardiology services in Santa Rosa with $16.4 million renovation for new care center
In little more than a decade, the doctors, nurses and medical assistants who power Sutter Health’s cardiology center…
Childhood cavities and gum disease raise adult heart disease risk
A national study suggests that cavities and gum disease in childhood may echo decades later in the arteries,…
New Research Suggests Mammograms Could Offer Heart Health Insight
4 min readRecent research suggests that breast arterial calcification (BAC) picked up on routine mammograms may help predict…
Acute heart failure linked to high readmission and death rates
Almost half of patients hospitalized for acute heart failure in Europe are readmitted within a year, according to…