Sitting Too Long Can Harm Heart Health, Even for Active People Approximately 10 hours or more of sedentary behavior per day is associated with heightened risk of heart failure and cardiovascular death ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction and Scope of the Problem The incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE), including pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep venous thromboembolism (DVT), in the United States is unclear because ...

Contact: Olivia Walther, [email protected], WASHINGTON (Dec 11, 2023) - A world without cardiovascular disease (CVD) is possible, yet millions of lives are lost prematurely to heart disease each year, ...

New Study Finds Chronic High Caffeine Consumption May Heighten Risk for Cardiovascular Disease The findings will be presented at ACC Asia 2024 ...

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, ...

Tiny fragments of plastic have become ubiquitous in our environment and our bodies. Higher exposure to these microplastics, which can be inadvertently consumed or inhaled, is associated with a ...

Contact: Nicole Napoli, [email protected], 202-375-6523 Washington (Sep 21, 2023) - Many of the nation’s most prominent cardiovascular organizations, representing tens of thousands of physicians, unite ...

The following are key points to remember about a 2023 American Heart Association (AHA) focused update on adult advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS): Epinephrine should be administered for ...

Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack As marijuana use increases, so does evidence showing it harms the heart ...

Contemporary management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) necessitates that clinicians grapple with the complex challenges of initiating and titrating guideline-directed medical ...