Search Tag: American Heart Association
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
2018 08 Nov
The American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association , and the Heart Rhythm Society have just released new guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of patients with bradycardia and cardiac conduction disorders. Bradycardia, defined as a heart rate of less than 50 beats a minute, can limit the amount of blood and oxygen...Read more
2018 22 May
The American Heart Association has released a new scientific advisory reaffirming AHA's recommendation to eat fish – especially those rich in omega-3 fatty acids – twice a week. Eating two 3.5-ounce servings of non-fried fish every week can help reduce the risk of heart failure, coronary heart disease, cardiac arrest and ischaemic stroke. The advisory...Read more
2017 13 Apr
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has launched its Get With The Guidelines in the U.A.E. This is the first region outside the U.S. that will be implementing this cardiovascular hospital care quality improvement program. See Also : AHA's Collaborative Platform on Cardiovascular Disease The programme is believed to benefit...Read more
2016 12 Jul
The American Heart Association (AHA) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) formed a partnership to use cloud technology to discover advanced in cardiovascular science and medicine. The collaboration, which was announced July 7, is part of the AHA’s Institute for Cardiovascular Medicine. The AHA will invest $30 million in the next five years to launch...Read more
2016 26 Jan
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in American women. A new scientific statement published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation states that women's heart attacks may have different causes, symptoms and outcomes as compared to men. The statement is the first of its kind from the American Heart Association on...Read more
2015 21 Sep
According to current estimates, one in four middle-aged adults who live to age 85 will develop heart failure. Health experts advocate intervention programmes to improve lifestyles but the question is: do these lifestyle change interventions really work? Investigators in U.S. and Taiwan evaluated independent programmes designed to reduce cardiovascular...Read more
2015 01 Jul
The American Heart Association (AHA) has recommended the use of a stent retrieval device to remove blood clots in select stroke patients who have clots that obstruct the large arteries from supplying blood to the brain. This is the first time such a recommendation has been made by AHA and the update has been published in the journal Stroke . Initial treatment...Read more
2015 22 Jun
According to a single-centre study conducted by Andrew Doorey, MD, Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del and colleagues, reducing the use of cardiac telemetry outside the ICU is unlikely to miss treatment-changing or life-threatening arrhythmias (LTA). Details are published in JAMA Internal Medicine . The study was conducted based on the...Read more
2015 23 Feb
According to results of a study by investigators at John Hopkins and other institutions, most risk calculators used by clinicians to gauge a patient's chances of suffering a heart attack overestimate its likelihood. The new findings appear in Annals of Internal Medicine and suggest that four of the five widely used clinical calculators considerably...Read more
2014 18 Aug
The American Heart Association (AHA), in a new statement published in its journal Stroke , warns about the risk of stroke for patients receiving neck manipulation therapy. Although the group could not confirm whether neck manipulation causes stroke or not, they cite the need to inform patients of the potential risk before receiving such therapy. Various...Read more