ALLMedicine™ Cardiovascular Disease Center

Nov 26th, 2022 - Urban greenspaces might reduce non-communicable disease risk. The links between greenspaces and mortality related to non-communicable disease remain unclear. We estimated the associations between residential greenspace quantity and access with all...

Nov 26th, 2022 - In the past five decades, the use of the magnetic resonance (MR) technique for cardiovascular diseases has engendered much attention and raised the opportunity that the technique could be useful for clinical applications. MR has two arrows in its ...

Nov 26th, 2022 - Observational studies of diet in cardiometabolic-cardiovascular disease (CM-CVD) focus on self-reported consumption of food or dietary pattern, with limited information on individual metabolic responses to dietary intake linked to CM-CVD. Here, ma...

Nov 26th, 2022 - Road traffic impacts human health through air pollution and road safety issues. Low emission zones (LEZs) and congestion charging zones (CCZs) have therefore been implemented in several cities globally. We systematically reviewed the evidence on t...

Nov 26th, 2022 - Even in the 21st century, female participants continue to be underrepresented in human physiology research. This underrepresentation is attributable in part to the perception that the inclusion of females is more time consuming, less convenient, a...

Nov 23rd, 2022 - Zhang, et al1 performed a meta-analysis of 19 observational studies with more than 3.9 million participants followed from 3 months to 9.5 years (median follow-up, 1.5 years) and found no association between use of medications to treat attention-de...

Nov 16th, 2022 - High intake of added or free sugars has been shown to contribute to the rise in obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.1 Health and nutrition guidelines call for a reduction in consumption of added sugars, with health agencies recomm...

Nov 14th, 2022 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide.1,2 Prevalence of CVD is projected to rise even further as a result of, amongst others, physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol and li...

Nov 2nd, 2022 - Menopause is defined as the cessation of a person's menstrual cycle. It is defined retrospectively, 12 months after the final menstrual period. Perimenopause, or the menopausal transition, is the few-year time period preceding a person's final men...

Nov 1st, 2022 - Walkability may be associated with increased physical activity and thus may confer protection against cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors. We sought to characterize the association between neighborhood-level cardiovascular diseases ...

Nov 23rd, 2022 - Zhang, et al1 performed a meta-analysis of 19 observational studies with more than 3.9 million participants followed from 3 months to 9.5 years (median follow-up, 1.5 years) and found no association between use of medications to treat attention-de...

Nov 16th, 2022 - High intake of added or free sugars has been shown to contribute to the rise in obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.1 Health and nutrition guidelines call for a reduction in consumption of added sugars, with health agencies recomm...

Nov 14th, 2022 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide.1,2 Prevalence of CVD is projected to rise even further as a result of, amongst others, physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol and li...

Nov 1st, 2022 - Walkability may be associated with increased physical activity and thus may confer protection against cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors. We sought to characterize the association between neighborhood-level cardiovascular diseases ...

Oct 31st, 2022 - DALLAS, Oct. 31, 2022 — Neighborhood walkability, a measure of how easy and safe it is to walk to reach resources for daily living, such as a grocery store, pharmacy, school, work and church, is associated with lower cardiovascular disease burden ...

Nov 28th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Michelle L. O'Donoghue, MD, MPH: Hi. I'm Dr Michelle O'Donoghue. I'm a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and I'm reporting for Medscape. Joining me today is Dr Stephen Nicholls. He's a profe...

Nov 28th, 2022 - Vitamin D supplements do not prevent muscle symptoms in new statin users or affect the likelihood of discontinuing a statin due to muscle pain and discomfort, a substudy of the VITAL trial indicates. Among more than 2000 randomized participants, s...

Nov 28th, 2022 - "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." —Maya Angelou At the 2022 American Heart Association (AHA) scientific session in Chicago, Illinois, I was fortunate to witness Michelle A. Albert, MD, the first Black woman to se...

Nov 25th, 2022 - Perceived discrimination — unfair treatment due to their race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or other factors — in day-to-day life was common in young myocardial infarction (MI) survivors and was associated with worse recovery, new rese...

Nov 25th, 2022 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Yearly deaths from heart disease in the United States increased in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, after a steady decline during the previous deca...