Feature Channels: Cardiovascular Health

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New Structural Heart "Dream Team" Assembles at Hackensack University Medical Center

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For 21 years, nurses have consistently been the most trusted profession, according to the yearly Gallup poll. (The new poll will be issued by the end of January). Dr Rushton, who specializes in burnout, will speak on trust, moral injury, and how nurses cope in this day and age.

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Cleveland Clinic Survey: Most Americans Using Health Monitoring Technology are Experiencing Significant Physical and Mental Benefits

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Every year, more than 40,000 patients in the U.S. undergo congenital heart surgery. But across centers, studies have shown that there can be significant variations in outcomes for these patients. To ensure that all children receive the best care, a group of leading experts across the country collaborated to create new, consensus recommendations for hospitals performing pediatric heart surgery.

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A heart pump can save left heart failure patients’ lives, but the surgery to implant the pump often leads to right heart failure. Doctors now have a way to predict which patients are most at risk.

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Irvine, Calif., Jan. 30, 2024 — Bernadette Boden-Albala, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., director of the University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health and founding dean of the planned School of Population and Public Health, has been selected to receive the prestigious Edgar J. Kenton III Lecture Award from the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, just prior to its annual International Stroke Conference.

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The latest research and expertise on the flue can be found in the Influenza channel on Newswise.

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Cardiologists and cardiac and vascular surgeons from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai are available for interviews throughout February to discuss heart-related topics, including the latest advances in research and patient care.

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February is American Heart Month, a time for awareness of heart-related conditions that affect adults and children. Johns Hopkins Medicine experts are available all month to discuss various aspects of heart health.

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A new case study finds that recreationally trained athletes—“regular” people, as compared to elite athletes—may be able to achieve the extremely high levels of energy expenditure needed to complete high-endurance athletic events.

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By: Bill Wellock | Published: January 29, 2024 | 8:51 am | SHARE: The American Heart Association spotlights cardiovascular health every February during American Heart Month. Understanding the risk factors that contribute to heart disease and how to manage that risk helps people live longer, healthier lives.Researchers at Florida State University examine heart health on a personal and community level.

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Only 10% of people who experience a cardiac arrest survive.[1] In new challenge goals outlined in the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care 2030 Impact Goals and Call to Action to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes, the American Heart Association’s volunteer advisory Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee makes the case for doubling survivorship to 20%.

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Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a single “universal risk prediction model” for cardiovascular disease that, in initial tests, works well for patients who already have cardiovascular disease as well as patients who do not but who may be at risk for developing it.

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Jennifer C. Romano, MD, a congenital heart surgeon at Congenital Heart Center/C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, and the Herbert Sloan Collegiate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School, was elected president of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons today at STS 2024 during the Society’s Business Meeting.

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In a study presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 2024 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, researchers examined outcomes for patients undergoing SAVR and those undergoing TAVR from 2013 to 2021 in the state of California.

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A study of pediatric heart surgery centers across the United States has demonstrated that, when it comes to successful surgery, it’s not just the size of the program that matters in determining quality outcomes.

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A new study presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 2024 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, examines the ongoing controversy surrounding the choice between multi-arterial grafting (MAG) and single arterial grafting (SAG) in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for multivessel coronary revascularization.

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Cardiothoracic surgeons and investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai will lead sessions featuring a range of heart procedures at the 60th Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), Jan. 27-29, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas.

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Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death for men and women in the United States. Eating a healthy diet and exercising help keep the heart healthy along with regular checkups with a doctor.

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The American College of Surgeons (ACS), with the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), has verified the first three outpatient centers as part of the recently launched Vascular Verification Program (Vascular-VP).

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An international academic consortium has identified 13 biomarkers that significantly improve the ability to accurately predict cardiovascular disease risk in people with type 2 diabetes.

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Pesquisadores da Mayo Clinic que estudam a genética de pessoas que recentemente desenvolveram cardiomiopatia dilatada (uma das causas mais comuns de insuficiência cardíaca), descobriram um gene particular para o qual o desenvolvimento de futuros tratamentos de terapia medicamentosa poderá ser direcionado.

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Investigadores de Mayo Clinic que estudian la genética de personas que recientemente desarrollaron miocardiopatía dilatada, una de las causas más comunes de insuficiencia cardíaca, descubrieron que deben enfocarse en un gen particular para desarrollar tratamientos farmacológicos en el futuro.

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You may not know Carol Barr, but in the future, she could save your life. Barr’s death at 39 from sudden cardiac arrest was caused by mitral valve prolapse—a heart valve defect that can affect the heart’s ability to pump blood. It can, in some cases, lead to death.

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Sanjeev S. Ranade, Ph.D., who joined the faculty of Sanford Burnham Prebys this month as an assistant professor in the Development, Aging and Regeneration program, studies how proteins called transcription factors (TFs) specifically control the development and function of cardiac cells — and what happens when things go wrong.

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Find the latest research and features on emergency medicine in the Emergency Medicine channel on Newswise.

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Heart rhythm expert Sumeet Chugh, MD, associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, is the recipient of this year’s American College of Cardiology (ACC) Distinguished Scientist Award-Clinical Domain.

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New research by investigators from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai shows that behavioral activation therapy is as effective as antidepressant medications in treating symptoms of depression in patients with heart failure.

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According to new research published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, breathing through the nose leads to several benefits, including lower blood pressure and other factors that could predict heart disease risk. The study was chosen as an APSselect article for January.

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Approximately one in three deaths in the U.S. is caused by cardiovascular disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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For years, researchers and clinicians at University of Michigan have sent recycled, or reconditioned, pacemakers to low- and middle-income countries for compassionate use cases in 2010 through the “My Heart Your Heart” program. Currently, the U-M team is leading an international clinical trial that is testing the impact of sending reconditioned pacemakers abroad for standard use. If successful, the trial could greatly increase access to pacemaker treatment for patients who otherwise would not receive it.

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The University of Kentucky will mark a decade of raising awareness and continuing its effort to warn women about the dangers of heart disease with the annual Healthy Hearts for Women Symposium. Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer of women, causing 1 in 3 deaths each year, according to the American Heart Association.

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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital found that two common biomarkers could predict cardiomyopathy that is otherwise undetected by conventional screenings in childhood cancer survivors.

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Nurses and other clinicians who care for patients with severe heart and lung failure receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) now have access to multiple resources from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, including specialized training and validation of their ECMO knowledge

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The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) and Doylestown Health leaders announced plans today for the Bucks County health system to become part of Penn Medicine.

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A new study sheds light on how autophagy, the body’s process for removing damaged cell parts, when impaired, can play a role in causing heart failure

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Advancements in the study of two rare heart conditions—peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)—contributed by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania may serve as critical guides in future work toward developing therapies for the conditions.

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The first 15 Northeast Ohio schools that qualified for free AEDs as part of the University Hospitals (UH) AEDin3 program were presented the life-saving equipment at UH Drusinsky Sports Medicine Institute at UH Ahuja Medical Center.

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University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine researchers uncovered a fundamental mechanism that controls the body’s response to limited oxygen and regulates blood vessel disease of the lung.