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Healthy weight, appropriate exercise needed to ward off heart disease
In middle-aged adults, gradual weight loss not accompanied by appropriate levels of physical activity may worsen the risk of cardiovascular disease, a recent Korea study has found.
Healthy weight, appropriate exercise needed to ward off heart disease
25 Aug 2022
Cholesterol, creatinine, platelet count tied to myocardial infarction, angina pectoris
Among the biochemical indices of obesity, cholesterol, creatinine, and platelet count appear to correlate with myocardial infarction or angina pectoris in both men and women, reports a recent study. Other indicators, including anthropometric measures, varied between sexes.
Cholesterol, creatinine, platelet count tied to myocardial infarction, angina pectoris
23 Aug 2022
Remote ischaemic conditioning improves neurologic function in acute stroke
Treatment with remote ischaemic conditioning in adults with acute moderate ischaemic stroke appears to increase the chances of achieving excellent neurologic function at 90 days as compared with usual care, as shown in the results of an open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomized clinical trial.
Remote ischaemic conditioning improves neurologic function in acute stroke
22 Aug 2022
HIV-positive patients tend to receive less cardiovascular care
People living with HIV (PLWH) are less likely to receive preventive cardiovascular (CV) care than non-HIV-infected patients, suggest the results of a study conducted in the same outpatient clinic.
HIV-positive patients tend to receive less cardiovascular care
17 Aug 2022
PLWH at a disadvantage in receiving statin therapy for ASCVD risk reduction
People living with HIV (PLWH) are less likely to receive appropriate statin therapy for the prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), a study has found.
PLWH at a disadvantage in receiving statin therapy for ASCVD risk reduction
16 Aug 2022
Exercise during childhood, adolescence improves diastolic function in HCM
Children and teens who engage in more physical exercise are more likely to have favourable left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), regardless of the presence of hypertrophy at the time of assessment, reports a recent study.
