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By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
People who learn they have an unruptured brain aneurysm typically have two options: surgery or watch and wait. Researchers hope to add a third alternative — drugs to lower the odds of the aneurysm rupturing.
Statins — drugs that reduce the risk of heart attack and […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
ANAHEIM, California — For years, Asian doctors haven’t had the kind of solid evidence that U.S. doctors have had to show high-dose statins could lower heart risks in their patients. But a large new study released Monday does just that.
“There has been substantial reluctance to […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
Patients who stop taking cholesterol-lowering drugs three to six months after their first stroke face a higher risk of another stroke, and an increased risk of hospitalization and death, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Those who’d had an […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
Editor’s note: This is one in a 10-part series of the top medical research advances of 2016 as determined by the American Heart Association.
Millions more people worldwide may benefit from cholesterol-lowering statins after a global study showed the drugs help reduce heart attacks and strokes in […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
A highly anticipated study has found that the new cholesterol-lowering drug evolocumab can reduce heart attacks and strokes among high-risk patients.
The findings, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting, showed that the […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
NEW ORLEANS — A new study shows that using medications to lower blood pressure and cholesterol does not slow cognitive decline — disappointing news for millions of aging Americans eager to stave off thinking and memory problems.
But what didn’t help cognition also didn’t hurt it […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
NEW ORLEANS — Patients who have been taking statins are likely to survive longer after a cardiac arrest than those who are not taking them, according to a study released Saturday.
The study from Taiwan researchers was presented during the Resuscitation Science Symposium at the American Heart […]
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People who take medications as prescribed are more than twice as likely to not have complications after heart procedures, according to a study released Monday.
The study — published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation — also found that heart bypass surgery patients appear to […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
Heart disease patients should inform their healthcare providers of all drugs they’re taking to manage interactions with cholesterol-lowering medicine, a new American Heart Association statement recommends.
“Healthcare providers and their patients who take statins need to be aware that these medications could interact with their other […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
The latest research news in heart health didn’t start in a lab, a hospital or a doctor’s office.
It all began with one smart mom, sitting at home reading scientific journals.
Chris Hempel of Reno, Nevada, was the catalyst behind a study published in April in Science […]
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