The days of old-fashioned house calls may be over, but there is a growing trend toward providing some hospital care in the comfort of patients’ homes. Now, a new study suggests it might end up being cheaper and, in some respects, better than traditional hospital care.
CHICAGO — Mobile integrated health models had greater benefit for younger patients and women with HF despite similar health status and hospital readmissions as transitional…
Exposure-response curves reveal the impacts of daytime-only, nighttime-only, and compound heatwaves on cause-specific heart disease mortality.
Clinical risk models for predicting risk for atrial fibrillation following stroke may be improved with the addition of a polygenic risk score.
Even when 10-year ASCVD risk and calcium scores were similar among demographic groups, there were racial/ethnic imbalances.
Contact: Julie Boyland, jboyland@acc.org, During the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session (ACC.25), 40 domestic teams and four international teams faced off in the…
Gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy may be markers for rather than mediators of risk for future CVD, according to new research.
Swedish study suggests more MACE with delayed addition of ezetimibe to statins after heart attack
Contact: Olivia Walther, owalther@acc.org, Complications during pregnancy (or adverse pregnancy outcomes), like gestational diabetes and newly developed high blood pressure, act as nature’s stress test…
First-gen device tied to ‘acceptable’ clinical outcomes and low pacemaker rate at 1 year
Contact: Olivia Walther, owalther@acc.org, Cardiac deaths increase significantly during compound heatwaves — heatwaves where temperatures are elevated both during the day and overnight — according…
