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Historical housing discriminatory practices are associated with modern-day cardiometabolic disease and risk factors years after such practices were outlawed, according to an analysis of census-level data.In a cross-sectional study, researchers found that “redlining” practices that graded neighborhoods according to perceived investment risk was associated with rates of CAD, chronic

Differences in emergency medical service agency resuscitation practices may partly account for widely varying out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates, researchers reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.“Our work highlights how important it is for emergency medical service agencies to review their resuscitation performance, and all related practices, to evaluate

Statin use for primary prevention of CVD was associated with lower risk for COVID-19 hospitalizations and in-hospital deaths, according to findings from a cohort study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.“Statins are now known to be beneficial in primary prevention, decreasing all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease and stroke,” Kim

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled the most-read cardiology news of June 2022.Readers were most interested in improving the messaging surrounding aspirin; the midterm CV safety of men’s hormone therapy; promotion of hands-only CPR to increase use and improve cardiac arrest outcomes; and more.

Continuous subcutaneous infusion of foslevodopa/foscarbidopa was safe and improved motor complications in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease, according to data presented at the European Academy of Neurology Congress 2022. “ABBV-951 (foslevodopa/foscarbidopa) is a solution of levodopa and carbidopa prodrugs for continuous subcutaneous infusion being investigated for the

Impaired exercise ventilatory efficiency above the upper limit of normal was associated with a greater dyspnea burden and low peak VO2 among never smokers and smokers with or without COPD, researchers reported.“Activity-related dyspnea and exercise limitation ... are common, even in mild COPD, and are associated with poor health status and increased mortality. The traditional focus of

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, health care providers are questioning how to help patients legally navigate reproductive care. After the ruling, several states moved to immediately ban abortions through so-called “trigger laws.” Jessie Hill, JD, the associate dean for research and faculty development and a professor at the Case Western University

U.S. Supreme Court justices made a “narrow” interpretation of Medicare’s Secondary Payer provision when ruling against DaVita Inc. in a case about how group health plans pay for dialysis care, the company CEO told investors.“ ... We believe that the ruling ignores the long history of protection offered under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act [MSPA] to the dialysis patient

COVID-19 vaccines are effective in reducing the risk for hospitalization and death in all BMI Groups, though the odds for adverse outcomes were higher for vaccinated people with very high or very low BMI compared with normal weight. “We had concerns that perhaps COVID-19 vaccines were less effective in people with obesity, given previous evidence from flu vaccines,” Carmen

Now that the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time since 2018, many in the financial media are revisiting the subject of inverted yield curves.Because the term yield curve inversion has returned to the news, you may wonder what this is, what it portends and why it is getting so much press.