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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 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 ...

According to the ACC/American Heart Association (AHA) guideline, all adults should undergo cholesterol screening to help assess long-term cardiovascular risk. 5,6 Serum LDL-C levels <100 mg/dL are ...

Spironolactone, an aldosterone blocker, compared with placebo, did not show any significant improvement in terms of heart failure (HF) hospitalizations and cardiovascular death at 24 months in ...

While high alcohol intake has been associated with worse health outcomes regardless of the type of alcohol consumed, the potential impacts of low to moderate alcohol intake appear to vary by beverage ...

Lowering LDL-C to <55 mg/dL in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) reduced the rate of major cardiovascular events by one-third, according to the Ez-PAVE trial presented ...

Semaglutide, a medication initially developed for type 2 diabetes and obesity, significantly improves symptoms in men and women with a common type of heart failure that has had few therapeutic options ...

Device-based left atrial appendage (LAA) closure was comparable to non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant (NOAC) therapy in reducing the combined rate of death from cardiovascular causes, stroke, ...

Nearly 1 in 2 Americans has high blood pressure—sometimes called the “silent killer” because it harms the heart and blood vessels—but many people don’t know they have it. In a study being presented at ...

People who consumed over nine servings of ultra-processed foods per day on average were 67% more likely to suffer a major cardiac event than people consuming about one serving of such foods per day, ...