Cardiovascular Risk

Treatment with blood pressure-lowering medications should be a cornerstone of cardiovascular risk prevention — and not based solely on prior history of cardiovascular disease or blood pressure status,...

Many major cities had unprecedented increases in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests when COVID-19 rates spiked, infectious disease experts have found. These heart attacks may be an early symptom or complication...

More limits on elective surgeries ending, bringing good news for some providers … Want to know where your employees go at shift’s end? This map may tell you … Expected ‘tsunami’ of post-COVID...

Symptomless heart attacks may pose the same risk of stroke as a chest-crushing event, and are more common in people 65 and older, according to a new study to be presented at the upcoming American Stroke...

Eating oily fish at least twice a week may help prevent major cardiovascular disease and death in individuals who are at high risk, including those who already have experienced heart disease or stroke,...

“I didn’t expect the numbers to be so dismal,” says the author of a study of stroke survivors from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

Women are also seen less frequently by cardiovascular specialists while in the hospital and less likely to be prescribed blood pressure- or cholesterol-lowering drugs than men, a Canadian study finds.

A daily dose of omega-3 fatty acids does not lower cardiac event risk in the frail elderly, and may be ineffective for cardiovascular prevention overall, investigators say.

Adults who took a daily combination pill containing statins and blood-pressure–lowering drugs, plus daily aspirin, were less likely to experience heart attack, stroke, and death from cardiovascular causes.

Newer classes of diabetes drugs reliably protect patients from heart and kidney damage associated with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, an American Heart Association analysis finds. Increased...