Plant-Based Proteins Can Help Cut Risk for Coronary Heart Disease
Higher intake of foods like tofu with isoflavones is associated with a moderately lower risk for developing coronary heart disease.
Higher intake of foods like tofu with isoflavones is associated with a moderately lower risk for developing coronary heart disease.
For patients undergoing mitral valve replacement (MVR), frailty is an independent predictor of morbidity, death, and increased hospitalization costs.
As individuals age, maintaining muscle mass is an important part of mitigating the risk of injuries affecting independence.
The FDA has issued a statement regarding the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The age at and cause of period cessation were not found to be associated with conventional cardiovascular risk factors across middle age and later life.
A US study has found that increased intake of red meat is associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality in adults.
An ACC initiative in North Carolina aims to provide uninsured cardiac patients with heart medications free of charge.
Lower use of low-dose aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in blacks vs whites may partly account for racial discrepancies in the incidence of ischemic cardiac death.
A recent report published in the New England Journal of Medicine describes the case of a patient with persistent skin discoloration associated with the use of the antiarrhythmic agent amiodarone. The 81-year-old man presented to the emergency department after a fall, which was eventually attributed to orthostatic hypotension. His medical history included atrial fibrillation and…
The blood levels of non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol were found to have a strong association with the long-term risk for a cardiovascular disease event.