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Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women, and women who have complications during pregnancy, such as high blood pressure or gestational diabetes, have a significantly higher risk of heart disease and stroke later in life, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published today in Circulation, the Association's flagship peer-reviewed journal.

Emory Heart & Vascular reached a significant historic milestone, performing a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure on its 5,000th patient at the end of last year. Emory's history with the innovative, minimally invasive procedure goes back all the way to 2007, when it became the first site in Georgia (and one of the first in the nation) to perform it.

A new study co-authored by heart experts from Emory and other academic medical centers found significant racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes for patients who experience the most severe kind of heart attack, ST elevation myocardial infarction or STEMI.

FRIDAY, April 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For veterans with peripheral artery disease, health care utilization, distance to primary care, and geographic region are associated with receipt of vascular assessment prior to lower-extremity amputation (LEA), according to a study published online April 19 in JAMA Surgery. Olamide Alabi, M.D., from the Atlanta VA Healthcare System