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The Heart Failure Society of America released a scientific statement establishing diagnostic criteria and a treatment framework for heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction, a phenotypically heterogeneous group historically underrepresented in dedicated interventional trials.

Daily peppermint oil supplementation was associated with reduced systolic blood pressure and resting heart rate in a small placebo-controlled trial of adults with elevated or stage 1 hypertension.

Lerochol (lerodalcibep-liga), a once-monthly self-administered PCSK9 inhibitor, is now commercially available as adjunctive LDL-C-lowering therapy for adults with hypercholesterolemia, including heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

A single-institution case series of 13 biopsy-proven hydroxychloroquine cardiomyopathy patients documented variable outcomes after drug cessation, ranging from full functional recovery to progression requiring advanced heart failure therapies.

A Swedish national cohort analysis linked bereavement to elevated incident cardiovascular disease risk before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the strongest pandemic-period association following partner loss.

First-line pulsed field catheter ablation outperformed antiarrhythmic drug therapy for rhythm control at one year in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation, with similar serious adverse event rates.