Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome affecting around 70 million individuals globally. It has a prevalence of 2% in ...

The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, published new research in the American Journal of ...

Patients with statin resistance do not experience symptoms, Le noted. Instead, the problem is that statins do not lower LDL-C levels as much as they typically do. Instead of a 50% reduction, people ...

The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, published new research in the American Journal of ...

Panelists discuss how diuretics serve as necessary “bailout therapy” for volume management in heart failure but should not substitute for guideline-directed medical therapy, with emerging evidence ...

Preventing and managing high blood pressure with healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as following a heart-healthy diet including reducing salt intake, staying physically active, maintaining a healthy ...

The American College of Cardiology has issued new guidelines recommending weight management medications as first-line treatments for eligible patients. This contrasts with prior guidelines that ...

The use of the PREVENT (predicting risk of cardiovascular disease events) risk calculator, which combines measures of cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health to estimate cardiovascular disease ...

The newly published European Society of Cardiology guidelines for valvular heart disease (VHD) introduce several key updates that place an emphasis on transcatheter treatment and less surgically ...

Heart disease is still the top cause of death in the US, but the types of heart disease killing people are changing, a new analysis has found. While deaths from acute conditions such as heart attacks ...

Nearly half of all Americans have high blood pressure – a condition called hypertension. Hypertension is the No. 1 risk factor for heart disease and stroke. In addition, hypertension increases risk of ...

At least one person is diagnosed with heart failure every minute. Of those living with the disease, half are women. While there is no cure, heart failure can be managed with the proper knowledge, ...