Time-restricted eating tied to increased risk for death from heart disease

March 18 ,2024

Overview:A time-restricted eating window of less than 8 hours was associated with increased risk for cardiovascular death, according to study findings presented at the Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Scientific Sessions.“Restricting daily eating time to a short period, such as 8 hours per day, has gained popularity in recent years as a way to lose weight and improve heart health,” Victor Wenze Zhong, PhD, professor and chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in Shanghai, said in a press more

FDA grants breakthrough device designation for resorbable magnesium scaffold for CLTI

March 18 ,2024

Overview:Biotronik announced it was granted breakthrough device designation from the FDA its below-the-knee resorbable magnesium scaffold for the treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischemia.The breakthrough device designation is intended to expedite the development and review of devices intended to treat a serious condition in which preliminary clinical evidence indicates potentially substantial improvement over available devices.The magnesium alloy drug-eluting stent (Freesolve RMS) showed 99.6% degradation of magnesium at 12 months after implantation in coronary arteries, potentially making the more

Aldosterone: The hidden hormone linking hypertension and obesity, and a potential target

March 18 ,2024

Overview:An op-ed published in February by Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, former director of the CDC, described hypertension as “the deadliest but most neglected and widespread pandemic of our time” — and he’s right.As practicing cardiologists, we witness firsthand the toll on human health caused by high BP, from debilitating strokes and heart attacks to organ damage and premature death.Hypertension is a leading modifiable risk factor globally for premature CV death, accounting for 10.8 million CV deaths and 11.3 million deaths globally in 2021. This and other alarming statistics more

Patients with higher apolipoprotein A-I levels at greater risk for giant cell arteritis

March 18 ,2024

Overview:Patients who eventually developed giant cell arteritis demonstrated significantly higher levels of apolipoprotein A-I at baseline, according to population-based data published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.“Previous work from our group indicated that obesity and diabetes were associated with a reduced risk for giant cell arteritis, and that there was also an inverse relation with total cholesterol,” Carl Turesson, MD, PhD, of Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, in Malmö, Sweden, told Healio. “However, the relation between apolipoproteins and more

Childhood ‘lazy eye’ may be tied to future cardiometabolic risk

March 17 ,2024

Overview:Childhood amblyopia, or “lazy eye,” was associated with increased likelihood of cardiometabolic risk factors in adulthood and a potential for increased risk for heart attack and death, researchers reported.The data did not show any causal relationship between adulthood cardiometabolic disease and childhood amblyopia, according to study findings published in eClinicalMedicine.“Amblyopia is an eye condition affecting up to four in 100 children. In the U.K., all children are supposed to have vision screening before the age of 5, to ensure a prompt diagnosis and relevant more

Next-generation TAVR valve linked to less paravalvular leak vs. predecessors

March 16 ,2024

Overview:The fifth generation of a balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement system was associated with lower rates of paravalvular leak and lower mean gradients compared with predecessor systems, researchers reported.The researchers evaluated patients included in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy (TVT) Registry who underwent TAVR with the fifth-generation valve (Sapien 3 Ultra Resilia, Edwards Lifesciences) or predecessor balloon-expandable valves (Sapien 3 and Sapien 3 Ultra, Edwards Lifesciences) from 2021 to June 2023. The more

Q&A: Considerations for sustaining advancement of durable mechanical circulatory support

March 15 ,2024

Overview:Since the implant of the first left ventricular assist device in 1994, the HF community observed significant technological innovation in durable mechanical circulatory support.Advancements include innovations in pump design, perioperative and long-term management of patients on durable mechanical circulatory support.In a new state-of-the-art review published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure, Aditi Nayak, MD, MS, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Baylor University Medical Center, along with colleagues and expert engineers, provided an overview of these advances.Healio more

Troponin kinetics can be used to identify hemorrhagic MI, a dangerous condition after PCI

March 15 ,2024

Overview:Hemorrhagic MI is associated with poor outcomes after PCI for STEMI and can be diagnosed via troponin kinetics, not necessarily requiring cardiac MRI, researchers reported at Cardiovascular Research Technologies.“In primary PCI after STEMI, hemorrhagic MI occurs in about 40% of patients. It is a high number,” Ankur Kalra, MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI, interventional cardiologist at Franciscan Health, primary investigator at Krannert Cardiovascular Research Center and adjunct clinical associate professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, who presented the findings, more

Greater access to obesity drugs puts spotlight on safety

March 15 ,2024

Overview:GLP-1 receptor agonists come with known adverse events — some common and some rare — but recent reports by the public of alopecia and suicidal ideation have the FDA investigating.Healio | Endocrine Today talked with prescribers about the likely origin and burden of these reports. The experts Healio | Endocrine Today spoke with reiterated that, with appropriate counseling, the medications remain safe for use among people with type 2 diabetes and obesity.Adverse events with GLP-1s have been the focus of news reports several times over the past year. An FDA quarterly report released more

Obesity, hypertension and heart disease: A complex relationship

March 14 ,2024

Overview:Along with type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia and thrombosis, the cardiometabolic diseases of obesity, hypertension and heart disease form a complex triad that poses significant risks to the health of individuals.These interrelated complications of obesity often share similar risk factors, compounding their adverse effects and creating challenges for both patients and their treating clinicians. Understanding the relationship between obesity, hypertension and heart disease is key in developing effective prevention strategies and treatments to mitigate their adverse impact on patients.Obesity, more

For people living in extreme poverty, heart disease risk factors more common than thought

March 14 ,2024

Overview:People living in extreme poverty had a higher prevalence of heart disease risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, smoking, obesity and dyslipidemia than previously thought, according to an analysis of people from 78 countries.The perception that people living in extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as income of less than $1.90 per day, are unlikely to have heart disease risk factors exists because “historically in low- or middle-income countries, the poor have had less access to calorie-rich/unhealthy food and do more exercise for work or travel, whereas the more wealthy more

PTSD tied to rehospitalization risk after first-time stroke among Black veterans

March 14 ,2024

Overview:After first-time stroke, comorbid PTSD was associated with increased risk for hospital readmission among Black veterans that was not observed among white veterans, researchers reported.In addition, the impact of significant risk factors for readmission such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia varied by race, according to study findings published in Stroke.“Our findings highlight the important things we can do to improve post-stroke care, such as focusing on high-risk populations, reducing modifiable risk factors, achieving stricter type 2 diabetes control and access for veterans who may more

Women with greater preeclampsia risk also have higher preterm spontaneous birth risk

March 14 ,2024

Overview:Spontaneous preterm birth risk throughout pregnancy is higher for women with greater risk for preeclampsia in the first trimester, according to study results published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.“Prediction of gestational age at spontaneous birth is challenging, particularly when attempted in the first trimester,” Paolo I. Cavoretto, MD, an OB/GYN in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at IRCC San Raffaele Scientific Institute and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, and colleagues wrote. “Moreover, optimal or expected timing of more

E-cigarette use lowers lung function, heightens blood pressure, heart rate

March 14 ,2024

Overview:Following 15-minute use of an electronic nicotine delivery system, or ENDS, lung function fell and blood pressure and heart rate rose in long-term users vs. nonusers, according to results published in CHEST.“One episode of ENDS use is associated with acute worsening of cardiovascular and pulmonary health indexes among long-term ENDS users,” Matthew C. Tattersall, DO, MS, associate professor of cardiovascular medicine at University of Wisconsin, and colleagues wrote.In an observational challenge study, Tattersall and colleagues assessed 164 exclusive ENDS users (mean age, 27.4 more

Cardiovascular comorbidity risk highest near time of rheumatic disease diagnosis

March 14 ,2024

Overview:Among patients with rheumatic diseases, the risk for cardiovascular comorbidity is highest during the period immediately before or after initial diagnosis, according to data published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.“Selected traditional [cardiovascular (CV)] risk factors may be more common among certain rheumatic diseases, but the elevated risk for CV comorbidities is not fully explained by traditional CV risk factors,” Hanna-Kaisa Aaramaa, of Tampere University Hospital, in Finland, and colleagues wrote. “Studies suggest that the risk for certain CV diseases in more

Vitamin D, calcium supplementation in older women shows mixed long-term results

March 13 ,2024

Overview:Calcium and vitamin D supplementation decreased cancer mortality among postmenopausal women after more than 2 decades of follow-up but increased CVD mortality, researchers found.Cynthia A. Thomson, PhD, RD, a professor at the University of Arizona College of Public Health, and colleagues conducted a post-hoc analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) multicenter randomized controlled trial, which assigned participants to either daily placebo or calcium and vitamin D (CaD) supplementation — consisting of 1,000 mg of calcium carbonate and 400 IU of vitamin D3 — for 7 more

Around 4% of adolescents meet AAP criteria for bariatric surgery

March 13 ,2024

Overview:Around 4% of adolescents in the United States meet the AAP’s eligibility criteria for metabolic and bariatric surgery, according to findings published in Pediatrics.Last year, the AAP published new clinical practice guidelines that endorsed the use of metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) as part of a comprehensive treatment strategy for adolescents with class III obesity or class II obesity and some specific comorbidities.“We undertook this analysis as part of our plan to implement current recommended guidelines,” Poornima Kunani, MD, regional lead for pediatric weight more

Study: Computerized clinical decision support system helps reduce systolic BP

March 13 ,2024

Overview:A computerized clinical decision support system intervention reduced patients’ mean systolic BP and increased prescriptions of multiple medications, a study in JAMA Internal Medicine showed.“It was a small change, but many other studies that have been done in the same population have not been able to show a difference, so we were glad to see that,” Lipika Samal, MD, MPH, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, told Healio.According to Samal and colleagues, research has shown that primary care providers “are not always aware of [chronic kidney disease (CKD)] more

Pulmonary artery sensor for patients with heart failure beats performance goals

March 13 ,2024

Overview:Management of patients with heart failure guided by a pulmonary artery sensor exceeded performance goals and was linked to improved quality of life and functional capacity compared with historical performance goals, researchers reported.PROACTIVE-HF trial results of the sensor (Cordella, Endotronix) for patients with NYHA class III HF were presented at the Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics (THT) annual meeting.“The Cordella system is a comprehensive platform that enables heart failure patients to perform a daily health assessment to evaluate congestion (pulmonary artery more

Scale using biosensor technology detects HF events more often than standard of care

March 13 ,2024

Overview:A congestion index derived from a scale using biosensor technology better predicted heart failure events compared with standard weight-based monitoring, researchers reported at the Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics annual meeting.For the SCALE-HF 1 study, the researchers enrolled 329 patients with HF with reduced, preserved or midrange ejection fraction (mean age, 64 years; 43% women; 32% Black) who stood on the cardiac scale (Bodyport) for approximately 20 seconds per day to measure their weight and peripheral impedance, from which a congestion index was derived. The ability of the more

Optimal Antiplatelet Therapy In NSTE-ACS: Results From A Novel Crowdsourcing Survey

July 07 ,2021

Overview:The choice and duration of antiplatelet therapy in NSTE-ACS undergoing PCI is complex and is a hotly debated topic – particularly amongst patients at high bleeding risk. To gain insight […] more

Results of an international crowdsourcing survey on the utilisation of antiplatelet therapy in NSTE-ACS

June 09 ,2021

Overview:Choosing an antiplatelet strategy in patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) at high bleeding risk (HBR), undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is complex given that one must […] more

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February 04 ,2021

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ACC.20/WCC Virtual continues!

April 05 ,2020

Overview:The World Heart Federation and American College of Cardiology held their first ever virtual congress March 28-30. But it’s not over. All of the ACC.20/WCC Virtual live sessions are now available […] more

2020 ISCP Annual Meeting cancelled

February 26 ,2020

Overview:Notice of Cancellation We regret to have to inform our colleagues and friends that the 2020 ISCP Annual Scientific Meeting in Miami will now be cancelled. The Board of Directors […] more

European Cardiology Review (ECR) now on PubMed and PubMed Central

October 30 ,2018

Overview:    European Cardiology Review (ECR) confirms that it has been accepted for indexing on PubMed Central and PubMed. All ECR articles starting from the first issue in July 2014, […] more

WHF to attend the WHO Executive Board meeting in January 2017

January 23 ,2017

Overview:From 23 January to 01 February 2017, the World Health Organization(WHO) will host the 140th session. From 23 January to 01 February 2017, the World Health Organization(WHO) will host the […] more