Palliative care, specialized medical care focusing on providing relief from the symptoms — including pain — and the stress of serious illness, is underutilized in nursing...
Consumer wearable devices, which monitor heart rate and physical activity (PA) via a wristband connected smartphone, can provide clinically valuable data for comparing the efficacy of...
There is a complex relationship between sodium intake and heart health outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and heart failure, according to recent research. One...
The combined use of sodium-glucose transport protein 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists may offer notable benefits for optimizing cardiovascular and renal outcomes...
Brendon Neuen, MBBS, PhD Credit: X.com Findings from a recent study are providing support for the combined use of sodium-glucose transport protein 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and...
Drinking alcohol on an airplane may have unwanted side effects. Recent research found that drinking alcohol and then sleeping on a flight may lower blood oxygen...
Strict sodium intake — with or without restrictions on fluid intake — is unlikely to confer clinical benefits on patients with heart failure, reported investigators. Their...
In a review article published in the journal Nature Reviews Cardiology, the authors provide a detailed overview of the global burden of heart failure, including the...
In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology, a group of researchers identified rare predicted loss-of-function variants associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) and elucidated...
For decades, it’s been thought that people with heart failure should drastically reduce their dietary salt intake, but some studies have suggested that salt restriction could...
West Virginia University researchers will put a sleep apnea detection device at the fingertips or wrists of patients facilitating early diagnosis and treatment of the disease...
Using animals to study heart disease doesn’t always translate well to human health outcomes, and human heart cells available for research don’t work outside the human...