Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 25, 2025

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 8, 2024

Half of all patients discharged from hospital after a heart attack are treated with beta-blockers unnecessarily, new study suggests.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

AUGUST 30, 2024

The appropriate duration of beta-blocker treatment after a heart attack (a myocardial infarction [MI]) is unknown in patients who do not need to take beta-blockers for another reason.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 31, 2024

government's premier research body has made an important discovery that could help create new drugs to lower "bad" cholesterol, and hopefully prevent heart attacks and stroke.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 14, 2024

New York City-based NYU Langone hospital had the lowest 30-day mortality rate for heart attack patients in the U.S. between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data released July 31.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Sotagliflozin, a drug recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes and kidney disease with additional cardiovascular risk factors, can significantly reduce heart attack and stroke among these patients, according to results from an international clinical trial led by a Mount Sinai researcher.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

OCTOBER 24, 2024

An experimental therapeutic monoclonal antibody therapy could become the first to directly enhance tissue repair in the heart following a heart attack.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MARCH 18, 2025

Two new studies add to mounting evidence that people who use cannabis are more likely to suffer a heart attack than people who do not use the drug, even among younger and otherwise healthy adults. Marijuana is now legal in many places, but is it safe? The findings are from a retrospective study of over 4.6

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JULY 3, 2024

Researchers have created a questionnaire test for home use that quickly identifies high risk of heart attack. A study shows that it has the same level of accuracy as blood tests and blood pressure measurements.

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Med Page Today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Any cardiovascular protection from colchicine in heart attack survivors seemed to be debunked with a better-powered randomized trial, researchers found. Between acute MI patients randomized to colchicine or placebo right after.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 25, 2025

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to encourage tissue repair and promotes survival of heart muscle cells after a heart attack.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 24, 2025

A specially designed drug prevented laboratory mice from developing heart failure after heart attacks, according to new research from Cedars-Sinai. This discovery could lead to new treatments to prevent heart failure, a serious cardiac condition that develops in up to 30% of heart attack survivors within one year.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

MARCH 5, 2024

Coronary artery calcium scoring with CT can identify symptomatic patients with a very low risk of heart attacks or strokes. Researchers said the findings may one day help some patients with stable chest pain avoid invasive coronary angiography.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Excess cholesterol is known to form artery-clogging plaques that can lead to stroke, arterial disease, heart attack, and more, making it the focus of many heart health campaigns.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JUNE 6, 2024

Researchers found higher amounts of the sugar alcohol xylitol are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke. The team confirmed the association in a large-scale patient analysis, preclinical research models and a clinical intervention study.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Having a heart attack significantly increases the risk of developing other serious long-term health conditions, a major new study shows.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 30, 2025

Every second counts when it comes to detecting and treating heart attacks. A new technology may be able to identify heart attacks faster and more accurately than traditional methods.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Using the results of a standard blood test and an online tool, you can find out if you are at increased risk of having a heart attack within six months.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

OCTOBER 16, 2024

With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A heart attack can trigger a desire to get more sleep, allowing the heart to heal and reduce inflammation—and this happens because the heart sends special signals to the brain, according to a new Mount Sinai study.

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American Heart News - Heart News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Research Highlights: Fear of another heart attack was a significant ongoing contributor to how heart attack survivors perceive their health, according to a new study. While anxiety and depression are recognized as common conditions after a heart.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Researchers show that genetic traits influence the cellular composition of atherosclerotic plaques, which over time will affect the risk of such lesions to cause a stroke or heart attack. The new knowledge can be used to improve the risk assessment and treatment of patients with atherosclerosis in the future.

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Heart Sisters

DECEMBER 10, 2023

With apologies to Dr. Seuss, I offer my own poetic interpretation of what getting misdiagnosed in mid-heart attack can feel like for far too many women.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 12, 2023

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have created an "atlas of atherosclerosis" that reveals, at the level of individual cells, critical processes responsible for forming the harmful plaque buildup that causes heart attacks, strokes, and coronary artery disease.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

AUGUST 15, 2024

Study reveals how movies perpetuate misconceptions about heart attacks, with limited representation of women and people of color, potentially impacting public

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

AUGUST 20, 2024

Cardiologists have long known that platelets can become "hyperreactive" to cause abnormal clotting that blocks arteries and contributes to heart attack, stroke, and poor blood flow (peripheral artery disease) in the legs of millions of Americans.

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American Heart News - Heart News

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Research Highlights: A new, multicenter study demonstrated that ablation treatment may be a better first option than medication for many heart attack survivors who develop abnormal electrical short circuits in their heart, which are episodes of.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 14, 2025

Despite guideline recommendation changes, some patients are still taking a daily dose of aspirin for prevention of heart attack or stroke, according to a Jan. 13 The Washington Post report.

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American Heart News - Heart News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Research Highlights: The risk of a heart attack among adults after a clot-caused stroke or a stroke plus a tear in the wall of a neck artery (carotid or vertebral artery dissection) was almost double within the first year compared to the heart attack.

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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

in heart attack survivors. Electronic messages highlighting cardiovascular benefits of flu shots increased vaccination rates by 1.8%

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Heart Sisters

JUNE 16, 2024

This study looked at what gardeners already suspect: "Gardening is associated with better cardiovascular health among older adults compared to older adults who do not garden"

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Med Page Today

JUNE 26, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Influenza infection was associated with an increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI), especially for those without a prior hospitalization for coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a Dutch observational case series.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

With the right amount, timing, and quality, it can work wonders -- strengthen the immune system, improve blood sugar, even decrease the risk of heart attacks and strokes. You may have heard sleep described as something of a magic pill for the body.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 29, 2024

A recently unveiled cardiovascular disease risk calculator that measures a patient's risk for heart attack and stroke is better calibrated and more precise than its previous version, but if current treatment guidelines for cholesterol and blood pressure therapy remain unchanged, the new calculator may have unintended consequences, according to research (..)

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 7, 2025

In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by the injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), that overexpress cyclin D2 and are knocked out for human leukocyte antigen classes I and II.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Certain hormonal contraceptives are associated with a higher stroke and heart attack risk, finds a large study from Denmark in The BMJ that draws on prescription records to give more precise estimates for different products than previous studies.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In a new study published in the European Heart Journal, researchers at Karolinska Institutet show that genetic traits influence the cellular composition of atherosclerotic plaques, which over time will affect the risk of such lesions for causing a stroke or heart attack.

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