Vascular Medicine News

The 2023 American College of Cardiology Scientific Session will be held live in New Orleans from Saturday to Monday and virtually, with 43 late-breaking trials and featured clinical research presentations.

In Black patients with resistant hypertension, renal denervation was associated with reductions in systolic BP at 3 years, according to new data from the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 trial.

Among young and middle-aged survivors of MI, peripheral microvascular dysfunction with mental stress is associated with major adverse CV events among women but not among men, researchers reported.

Before the emergence of the heart team in transcatheter aortic valve repair, the collaboration of an interventionalist and cardiac surgeon for the treatment of a single patient with CVD was a decidedly less common occurrence in cardiology.

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the top headlines in cardiology from February 2023.

SAN DIEGO — A new diagnosis of cardiovascular disease was linked to shortened time to disability progression and worsened outcomes in patients with MS, according to a poster presented at ACTRIMS 2023.

Black women aged 20 to 50 years with hypertension are more than twice as likely to have uncontrolled BP compared with white women, independent of social determinants of health and modifiable health behaviors, researchers reported.

Among young acute MI survivors, Black individuals had greater risk for all-cause hospital readmission within 1 year of discharge compared with white individuals, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Influenza-like illness was associated with increased risk for arterial dissections in the aorta, the cervical and coronary arteries, according to a study published in Stroke.

High consumption of processed foods was associated with greater variability in systolic BP during sleep and greater odds of extreme nocturnal dipping, researchers reported.