The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association and nine other leading medical associations, today issued an updated guideline for the management of dyslipidemia—abnormal ...

Sleep is a critical physiological process that allows the body to rest, repair and rejuvenate and it has profound implications for systemic health, particularly the cardiovascular system. Along with ...

People with heart disease who received a shingles vaccine had nearly half the rate of serious cardiac events a year later compared with those who did not get the vaccine, according to a study being ...

A major focus of the guideline is earlier intervention through healthy lifestyle changes, starting in childhood. Early consideration of pharmacotherapy in youth with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) ...

People taking an oral formulation of the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist semaglutide were 14% less likely than those taking a placebo to experience cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke ...

The researchers used data from the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau report for the years 2025 to 2060, and combined these census counts with the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors or disease based on ...

A world without cardiovascular disease (CVD) is possible, yet millions of lives are lost prematurely to heart disease each year, according to the new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) special report ...

Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption is associated with increases in blood pressure (BP) and stopping drinking – even drinking less – may lead to clinically meaningful BP reductions, according to a ...

Consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverages, potato chips and packaged cookies, may be associated with adverse health outcomes, according to research being presented at the ...

The following are key points to remember from a review of lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] and cardiovascular disease (CVD): ...

The following are key points to remember from the 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF): The guideline document recommends treatment using ...

The following are key points to remember from a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) clinical consensus statement on obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD): ...