HONOLULU — Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center has received American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines® and Mission: Lifeline® achievement awards for demonstrating a commitment to following up-to-date, research-based guidelines for the treatment of heart disease and stroke, ultimately leading to more lives saved, shorter recovery times, and fewer readmissions to the hospital. Every 40 […]
(CNN) — Scientists have long known that people living with HIV face a higher risk of heart disease. The statin drug pitavastatin, however, might offer a solution. In a phase 3 clinical trial, individuals with an HIV infection who took pitavastatin – a medication used to lower high cholesterol – were 35% less likely to […]
Primary prevention study enrolled people with HIV who would not normally be prescribed a statin A widely used statin medication reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events when given to people with HIV who are at low to moderate risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to results from the REPRIEVE study […]
A statin a day reduces the risk of heart disease in younger people living with HIV, according to a new study published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine. “What the study is saying is if you add a statin treatment to antiretroviral therapy … that will now prevent to a large degree, the […]
Approximately 6% of patients with first-episode psychosis had an abnormality requiring a change in clinical management, according to a new study. The findings support the incorporation of MRI as part of the initial assessment for all individuals presenting with first-episode psychosis. First-episode psychosis is a critical condition that warrants prompt and accurate diagnosis to ensure […]
One-third of adults with Type 2 diabetes may unknowingly have cardiovascular disease, as marked by two elevated protein biomarkers, according to a study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The research implies that routine screening of these biomarkers, traditionally used in diagnosing heart issues, could help pinpoint patients at higher risk and thus […]
Now, more than three years from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts can be seen more clearly. For example, the rise in the number of cardiovascular disease deaths in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, represents the largest single-year increase in CVD deaths since 2015 and topped the previous high recorded […]
Gui-shuang Ying, MD, PhD Credit: University of Pennsylvania Most structural responses on optical coherence tomography at 3 months were not independently predictive of the 2-year best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) responses in eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), according to new research.1 Investigators from the Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatment Trials (CATT) Research Group […]
High Cholesterol Lowering Exercises: 5 Workouts To Get Rid of Bad Cholesterol Levels Your chance of developing cardiovascular disease, which increases your risk of death, can be affected by your cholesterol levels. The following exercises help decrease cholesterol levels. High cholesterol can significantly affect heart health and increase the risk of heart disease. In recent […]
Patients should aim for good glucose control, ideally with a medication regimen that includes a diabetic agent which lowers cardiac and vascular risk. (Photo: Pexels) IN our last article we looked at some of the measures that can be used to improve the outcome of the diabetic patient and noted that cardiac and vascular disease […]