Search Tag: AHA
2025 16 Apr
According to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes , sleep health includes various components such as sleep duration, time taken to fall asleep, sleep satisfaction, daytime functioning, and consistency of sleep patterns. Addressing these diverse aspects of sleep...Read more
2025 09 Apr
Technology-based health tools like fitness trackers, smartwatches, and mobile health apps have shown promise in helping people improve cardiovascular health. However, a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA), published in Circulation , highlights that people facing adverse social drivers of health often encounter barriers...Read more
2025 05 Mar
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have released an updated clinical practice guideline for managing patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The new 2025 ACC/AHA/ACEP/NAEMSP/SCAI Guideline for the Management of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes, published in JACC and Circulation , incorporates...Read more
2024 19 Nov
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Red Cross have released the 2024 Guidelines for First Aid, a comprehensive update designed to equip first aid responders with evidence-based practices for addressing mild, moderate and life-threatening emergencies. The updated guidelines are published in Circulation. The guidelines were...Read more
2024 14 Oct
According to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association, three common cardiovascular diseases in adults—heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and coronary heart disease—are closely linked to cognitive decline and an increased risk of dementia. The statement reviews current research on the relationship between cardiovascular and brain...Read more
2024 22 May
Obesity prevalence has steadily risen, affecting over 40% of U.S. adults aged 20 and older. Scientific advances have illuminated the multifaceted causes of obesity, including sociological and physiological factors. Treatment strategies now encompass lifestyle modifications, medications, and bariatric surgery, each posing unique implementation challenges....Read more
2023 11 Oct
A new American Heart Association presidential advisory is reshaping the landscape of cardiovascular disease (CVD) by redefining risk, prevention, and management. This transformation is spurred by the recognition of the interplay between cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity, collectively termed cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic...Read more
2021 09 Nov
The American Heart Association has released new dietary recommendations, the first time in nearly 15 years. The new recommendations focus on the fact that a heart-healthy diet does not mean you have to drastically change your diet or restrict food groups but instead find a pattern that is consistent with what you enjoy and that is still heart-healthy....Read more
2019 23 Nov
At the AHA Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia, data from a study of investigational candidate, MYK-491, showed that a human iPSC-derived organ-on-a-chip technology can directly measure in vivo cardiac performance. MYK-491 increases the contractility of the heart (systolic function) with minimal or no effect on myocardial relaxation and compliance...Read more
2019 23 Nov
Twice-yearly injections of an experimental cholesterol-lowering drug, inclisiran, were effective at reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often called bad cholesterol, in patients already taking the maximum dose of statin drugs, according to data of the ORION-10 trial presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2019....Read more
2019 23 Nov
Statins are an effective medication for treating patients with heart disease. They cut the risk of a second major adverse cardiac event by almost 50$. But only about 6% of patients take statins as prescribed. One way to solve that? Nudge them. Literally. In a new study presented to heart specialists from around the world, researchers at the Intermountain...Read more
2019 26 Aug
Summary: The past, present & future of dementia care using sensors in everyday life objects through four use cases from research labs to large-scale pilots & adoption by pharmaceutical companies. Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. It is the main cause of dementia, a syndrome defined by loss of cognitive...Read more
2019 26 Aug
Summary: Cardiovascular disease prevention strategies in 2019 remain a major healthcare issue, requiring an individualised approach for diagnostic and therapeutic decision making. Introduction Since investigators from the Framingham Heart Study first confirmed the existence and importance of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in...Read more
2019 10 Apr
Heart failure patients who could possibly benefit from a newer class of drug to lower their heart rate were more likely to take the medication if it was prescribed before hospital discharge rather than in a follow-up doctor's visit, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Quailty of Care and Outcomes Research...Read more
2019 20 Mar
An updated guideline for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease has been released jointly by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology. Among the major changes is a recommendation against the broad use of aspirin in primary prevention, after recently reported results of the ARRIVE, ASCEND, and ASPREE trials...Read more
2019 15 Mar
Chelsea Beecher serves as the Director of Development for the American Heart & Stroke Association in New York City. She led the launch of STEM Goes Red in New York City and received the Innovator of the Year Award in 2018 for this initiative. STEM Goes Red aims to empower young women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)...Read more
2019 07 Feb
An update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation has been released. The focused update includes revisions to the section on anticoagulation, revisions to the section on catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), revisions to the section on the management of AF complicating acute coronary syndrome...Read more
2018 07 Jun
Genomic medicine is the study of the health effects of the molecular interactions of a person's unique genes. Genomic medicine looks at all the types of molecular variation, from the DNA and RNA to the microorganisms in the human gut that seem to play an increasingly important role in maintaining health. A new scientific statement from the...Read more
2015 09 Jul
Leading experts in cardiology and preventive medicine have issued a call to action to tackle the global problem of deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart problems, diabetes and cancer, through healthy lifestyle initiatives. They say that identifying the enormous burden caused by NCDs is not enough and call for a "paradigm shift"...Read more
2015 29 Jun
Guidelines Confirm the Benefit of Endovascular Treatment -- Penumbra, Inc ., a global interventional therapies company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical devices, including those used in endovascular stroke therapy, issued the following statement from Adam Elsesser, chairman and chief executive officer, regarding...Read more
2015 05 May
The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of Rick Pollack as the next president and CEO, to succeed Richard J. Umbdenstock, who retires at the end of 2015. Pollack has served since 1991 as AHA’s executive vice president for advocacy and public policy responsible for the development, implementation and...Read more
2014 28 Nov
Patient safety is one of the foremost challenges in US healthcare, affecting hundreds of thousands of patients and costing tens of billions of dollars every year. According to the landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System", 44,000 to 98,000 people die each year in US hospitals from preventable medical...Read more