Cardiology
14 Novel Loci Identified for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) — In a genome-wide association study (GWAS), published online Sept. 28 in Circulation, researchers identified 14 novel loci for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Philip Tsao, Ph.D., from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues performed a GWAS in the Million Veteran Program testing about 18 million...
Diagnoses of Common Conditions Declined in March to May 2020
FRIDAY, Sept. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Diagnoses of common conditions decreased substantially between March and May 2020, according to a study published online Sept. 23 in The Lancet Public Health. The research was published to coincide with the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Conference on Coronavirus Diseases, held virtually from Sept....
Oral Steroids May Raise Risks for Diabetes, HTN, VTE in Children
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Children with current glucocorticoid exposure have increased risks for diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to a study published online Sept. 9 in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Daniel B. Horton, M.D., from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and...
Rates of Recurrent MI Declined Among U.S. Women and Men
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — From 2008 to 2017, there were decreases in the rates of recurrent myocardial infarction (MI), recurrent coronary heart disease (CHD) events, heart failure hospitalization, and all-cause mortality in both men and women, according to a study published online Sept. 21 in Circulation. Sanne A.E. Peters, Ph.D., from The...
Impact of Psoriasis Explored for Hospital Outcomes of Acute MI
MONDAY, Sept. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Myocardial infarction (MI) events may occur earlier in life in patients with psoriasis, which in turn may affect hospital outcomes, according to a study published online Sept. 11 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Susanne Karbach, M.D., from the University Medical Center Mainz in Germany, and...
Transient Orthostatic Hypotension Common in Parkinson Disease
THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Transient orthostatic hypotension (tOH) is common in Parkinson disease (PD), according to a study published online Sept. 16 in Neurology. Alessandra Fanciulli, M.D., Ph.D., from the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria, and colleagues conducted a retrospective study involving 173 patients with PD and 173 age- and gender-matched...
Pacemaker Need Higher in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The need for pacemakers is higher among patients with type 2 diabetes than the general population, according to a study published online Sept. 4 in Diabetes Care. Elina Rautio, from the Solna Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, and colleagues used data from the Swedish National Diabetes Registry to identify...
Better Cardiovascular Health Linked to Lower Incident HTN
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — For adults without hypertension, better cardiovascular health as measured by Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) is associated with a lower risk for incident hypertension, according to a study published online Sept. 16 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Timothy B. Plante, M.D., from the Larner College of...
Severely Obese Heart Donors Not Tied to Adverse Transplant Outcomes
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Severe obesity in organ donors is not associated with adverse heart transplant outcomes, according to a study published online Sept. 16 in Circulation: Heart Failure. Elizabeth D. Krebs, M.D., from the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, and colleagues stratified single-organ first-time adult heart transplants from 2003...
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