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More Rigorous Family History Improves CV Risk Assessment
Although family history has long been recognized as an important cardiovascular risk factor, usual methods to assess risk have not incorporated the family history in a rigorous manner. A new study...
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Glucose Measurements Don’t Improve Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
Although blood glucose and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) play a central role in diabetes, the value of these measurements to assess cardiovascular risk has been unclear. Now, in a paper published in...
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Beyond Kickbacks: More Questions About Unnecessary Cardiovascular Tests
On the front page of the Wall Street Journal today is an important story about a fast-growing company accused of giving kickbacks to physicians who order the company’s tests measuring a wide variety of...
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Healthy Habits Of Young Women Lead To Long-Term Health Benefits
It may seem obvious but a new study shows that young women with healthy habits are less likely as they age to get coronary heart disease or go on to develop cardiovascular risk factors like high blood...
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More Guideline Controversy: The Tricky Business Of Calculating Cardiovascular...
Calculating cardiovascular risk has become a central and highly controversial component of cardiovascular guidelines. Now a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that most of the commonly...
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Get A Grip! Global Study Shows Grip Strength Is a Simple And Powerful...
A large global study finds that grip strength is a simple, powerful, and broadly applicable test that can help predict the risk of death and cardiovascular disease. The new findings from the...
View ArticleA Novel Way To Think About Primary Prevention, Death, And Statins
A new paper offers a novel way to think about disease prevention. The way we think– and talk– about disease prevention now is complicated and confusing. A key ingredient in the decision to take statins...
View ArticleTrump’s Risk For A Cardiac Event Is Seven Times Hilary Clinton’s Risk
Editor’s note: The following guest post is reprinted with permission from Dr. Anthony Pearson, a cardiologist who is the medical director of the Echocardiography Laboratory and Anticoagulation Clinic...
View ArticleDebate Ensues As USPSTF Finalizes Statin Primary Prevention Guideline
–Broad disagreement about how, when, and if to use statins. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued final recommendations regarding the use of statins for primary prevention of...
View ArticlePotential Benefits And Dangers of New Troponin Tests
–What does it mean when 80% of people have detectable levels without CVD? As many as four out of five people without known heart disease will have detectable levels of cardiac troponins with the new...
View ArticleCardiology Is Dead. Long Live Public Health.
Cardiology is dead. Here’s two new important pieces of evidence: The FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee hasn’t met since April 2015, and even then it was for the decidedly...
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