U.S. researchers examine whether antihypertensive medication deprescribing is associated with myocardial infarction or stroke in long-term care residents.
Doctors will now have to try to understand how atrial fibrillation—the most common form of arrhythmia worldwide—increases the risk of dementia or cognitive decline later in life.
Study finds primarily cost, in addition to information overload and cultural considerations, to be barriers to nutritional eating among cardiac patients.
While heart disease consists of many conditions, blockages in the artery are the most common. This can prevent blood, and oxygen, from getting to the heart and can lead to a heart attack or death.