Articles related to CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CVD)

Patients, with or without anemia, should be screened for elevated homocysteine or B12 deficiency because that may be one of the reversible factors in their cognitive decline.

More than 99% of people who experienced a heart attack, heart failure, or stroke had at least one of four major cardiovascular risk factors above ideal healthy levels beforehand.

A balanced combination of coffee and tea, in a roughly 2:3 ratio, was linked to the lowest risk of death from all causes and several specific diseases.

In the STEER study, patients using Wegovy® had greater cardiovascular improvements compared to tirzepatide, indicating that the same CV benefit cannot be generalized across other molecules in the GLP-1 or GIP/GLP-1 classes and may come specifically from the semaglutide molecule.

“The main scenario that prompts me to use apoB is when a patient’s traditional lipid panel values are either normal, or even slightly abnormal, but have discrepancy with the quality/quantity of their other comorbid problems.” — Austin Shuxiao, MD

Higher BP at age 7 years was associated with greater risk of premature CVD mortality… demonstrated consistency in the magnitude of the associations within siblings, which mitigates concerns regarding unmeasured confounding.