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Heart disease remains leading cause of death as key health risk factors continue to rise

Written by | 3 Feb 2025

Heart disease kills more people than any other cause as many of the risks factors that contribute to it remain on the rise, according the data reported in the 2025… read more.

Dramatic increase in obesity-related heart disease mortality – AHA 2024

Written by | 12 Nov 2024

Researchers report that the number of people in the U.S. who died from ischemic heart disease related to obesity increased by approximately 180% from 1999 to 2020. The… read more.

Hot news flash: Menopause can impact a woman’s heart health

Written by | 21 Oct 2024

The risk of heart disease increases with age for most people, however, for women that may be even more true. The menopause transition, those years leading up to… read more.

Diabetes treatment with drug combination adds protection against heart and kidney disease

Written by | 21 Jul 2024

Combination treatment of diabetes with a sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2) and a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP1-RA) appears to also offer protection against heart and kidney… read more.

Decline in UK coronary heart disease rates offset by rise in other cardiovascular conditions

Written by | 3 Jul 2024

Rates of coronary heart disease in the UK have declined by about 30% over the past two decades, but this has been offset by rising rates of other… read more.

Doctors advise caution as energy drinks may trigger life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in patients with genetic heart diseases

Written by | 8 Jun 2024

A new study in Heart Rhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, and the Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society, published by Elsevier, examined… read more.

Air pollution and depression linked with heart disease deaths in middle-aged adults

Written by | 30 Apr 2024

A study in more than 3,000 US counties, with 315 million residents, has suggested that air pollution is linked with stress and depression, putting under-65-year-olds at increased risk… read more.

Women with heart disease are less likely to receive life-saving drugs than men

Written by | 29 Apr 2024

Women with heart disease are less often treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs than men, according to research presented today at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024, a scientific congress of the European… read more.

Study shows web app effective in determining access to statins without a prescription

Written by | 14 Apr 2024

Using a web application to qualify individuals for treatment with a non-prescription statin closely matched the results of clinician assessments in determining a person’s eligibility for taking statins… read more.

Majority of people with heart disease consume too much sodium

Written by | 6 Apr 2024

Individuals with heart disease stand to gain the most from a low-sodium diet but, on average, consume over twice the recommended daily sodium intake, according to a study… read more.

Common hair loss and prostate drug may also cut heart disease risk in men and mice

Written by | 23 Feb 2024

The drug finasteride, also known as Propecia or Proscar, treats male pattern baldness and enlarged prostate in millions of men worldwide. But a new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study suggests… read more.

Job strain combined with high efforts and low reward doubled men’s heart disease risk

Written by | 22 Sep 2023

Men who say they have stressful jobs and also feel they exert high efforts for low reward had double the risk of heart disease compared to men free of those… read more.

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