BACKGROUND: Recent studies have highlighted the deleterious role of high phosphate intake in hypertension by means of ...

During aging, deterioration in cardiac structure and function leads to increased susceptibility to heart failure. The need for interventions to combat this age-related cardiac decline is becoming ...

BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that exposures to air pollution and nonoptimal temperatures are associated with a ...

COVID-19 is characterized by dysregulated thrombosis and coagulation that can increase mortality in patients. Platelets are fast responders to pathogen presence, alerting the surrounding immune cells ...

Aortic valve (AV) sclerosis (AVS) is a form of AV disease affecting an estimated 1 in 4 people above the age of 65 in the United States. 1 An aging population and more widespread use of noninvasive ...

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Values are mean±SD unless otherwise indicated. Component definitions are shown in Table S1. BMI indicates body mass index; BP, blood pressure; DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension; PA, ...

The effects of treatments for heart failure (HF) may vary among patients according to left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). In FINEARTS-HF (Finerenone Trial to Investigate Efficacy and Safety ...

Not many decades ago, it was the rare patient with a functionally univentricular heart who survived to adulthood. 1 While this grim prognosis has gradually improved over the years, the diagnosis of ...

This is the first causal mediation study to date that empirically assessed pathways from long‐term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter to nonaccidental deaths through the incidence of diabetes ...

A 46-year-old woman with type 1 myotonic dystrophy (DM1) presented to the emergency department with dyspnea and palpitations.

Hypertriglyceridemia (triglycerides 200–499 mg/dL) is relatively common in the United States, whereas more severe triglyceride elevations (very high triglycerides, ≥500 mg/dL) are far less frequently ...