March 07, 2025

Nationwide Study Reveals Key Trends in Pediatric Pulmonary Embolism

Pediatric patients with acute pulmonary embolism had a 9.3 times higher crude odds ratio for in-hospital death compared with those without PE, a new study finds.

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March 06, 2025

Study Finds Reduced Fitness Levels in Pediatric Cardiac Patients

Children with inherited cardiac disease had lower V̇O2max and physical activity levels than healthy peers, with fitness deficits linked to clinical, functional, and behavioral factors, according to a multicenter study.

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March 06, 2025

An Estimated 31 Million Americans Borrowed for Medical Bills in 2024

A new West Health-Gallup Survey survey reveals insights into medical debt across all income levels and demographics in the United States.

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March 06, 2025

Toxic Stress Linked to Higher Cardiovascular Risk in Younger Women

Toxic stress was associated with an increased odds of cardiovascular disease among younger women but not older women, study shows.

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March 03, 2025

Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Lower Cardiovascular Event Rate

DM1 was associated with a lower probability of incident cardiovascular events than DM2, finds a new study analyzing over 162,000 patients from the Veradigm Metabolic Registry.

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March 03, 2025

SJS/TEN Linked to Increased Stroke, Heart Disease Risk

The risk of cardiovascular mortality in Stevens-Johnson syndrome survivors peaked within a year and persisted for up to 7 years.

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February 28, 2025

Study Finds No Advantage in Drug-Coated Stents for Limb Ischemia

Neither drug-coated balloons nor drug-eluting stents conferred significant clinical benefit over plain balloons and bare metal stents, finds the BASIL-3 trial, questioning the routine use of drug-coated devices in limb ischemia treatment.

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February 27, 2025

Study Finds EVT Does Not Improve Stroke Recovery

EVT did not confer a functional benefit in patients with medium-vessel occlusion stroke, according to key findings from the ESCAPE-MeVO trial.

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February 27, 2025

Sex-Specific Fibrosis Patterns in Aortic Stenosis

Increased myocardial fibrosis predicts mortality post–AVR for both sexes, with researchers stating, Myocardial fibrosis provides significant prognostic information in men and women with AS.

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