Dietary patterns TEA diet: encourages use of soy products, tea, steaming/boiling cooking methods. Class 1 recommendation for tea consumption (>3 times/week) in those without hypertension. DASH diet: ...

Understand and strategically utilize the new program signaling feature for the 2026 Cardiovascular Fellowship MyERAS® application season. Join ACC's Program Directors and Graduate Medical Educators ...

The FINEARTS-HF trial showed that in patients with symptomatic HF with preserved or mildly reduced LVEF, finerenone resulted in a lower composite rate of worsening HF events and CV death compared with ...

At four years' follow-up, 21% of the lamin arms and 6% of the DCMwt arm had experienced MACE. Univariable Cox regression showed that in the lamin arms, each 1% increase in global LGE and each 1% ...

Lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) is a low-density lipoprotein–like molecule with an apolipoprotein (b) moiety that is covalently attached to apolipoprotein (a) (Apo[a]), a plasminogen-like protein that confers ...

Standard lipid testing, represented by total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides, is a well-established platform ...

The 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol was a welcome update from the 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular ...

A world without cardiovascular disease (CVD) is possible, yet millions of lives are lost prematurely to heart disease each year, according to the new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) special report ...

For patients with intermediate or high pretest probability or a positive D-dimer, a contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography (CT) angiography is indicated.

The replacement of regular salt with a salt substitute can reduce incidences of hypertension, or high blood pressure, in older adults without increasing their risk of low blood pressure episodes, ...

Individuals with heart disease stand to gain the most from a low-sodium diet but, on average, consume over twice the recommended daily sodium intake, according to a study being presented at the ...

Younger women are generally thought to have a low risk of heart disease, but new research urges clinicians to revisit that assumption, especially for women who suffer from certain mental health ...