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Blood pressure drug can reduce arterial stiffening

Obesity is closely intertwined with high blood pressure and diabetes, often putting patients at greater risk for either of these health conditions. It's also associated with arterial stiffening—when the walls of the artery ...

Perimenopause may offer a 'window of opportunity' for heart disease prevention in women

Perimenopausal women are two times more likely to have a low cardiovascular health score compared to women having regular menstrual cycles, according to an analysis of nationwide U.S. data published in the Journal of the ...

AI models comb patient data to predict cardiac arrest risk

Researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that can scrutinize electronic health records (EHR) and electrocardiograms to identify individuals in the general population at elevated risk for sudden cardiac ...

What lies behind hereditary heart rhythm disorders

Short QT syndrome is a genetic disease that leads to sudden cardiac death at a young age. Mutations in the SLC4A3 gene, which regulates bicarbonate-chloride exchange, were recently described as a potential cause. An international ...