A Swedish population-based cohort study suggested that higher resting heart rate (RHR) was associated with increased risk for dementia and faster cognitive decline independent of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a general population of elderly people. The study included 2147 participants (age≥60) who were free of dementia and regularly followed from […]
A retrospective cohort study concluded that high-grade exercise-induced premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) occurring during recovery were associated with long-term risk of cardiovascular mortality in asymptomatic individuals, but not PVCs occurring only during exercise. The study included a total of 5,486 asymptomatic individuals with a mean age of 45.4 years and […]
Higher sodium and lower potassium intakes, as measured in multiple 24-hour urine samples, were associated in a dose–response manner with a higher cardiovascular risk in a pooled random-effects meta-analysis of individual-participant data from six prospective cohorts of generally healthy adults in the US. The analysis included 10,709 participants, mean age […]
Pooled analysis of 2 US prospective cohort studies of patients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD) suggested that myocardial ischemia with mental stress, compared with no ischemia with mental stress, was significantly associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) death or nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI). The analysis included 918 […]
A Danish cohort study showed that the diagnostic value of a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score was age dependent, with smaller added diagnostic value for younger patients. The cohort included 23 759 symptomatic adult patients who underwent computed tomography angiography between January 2008 and December 2017; median age 58, 55% […]
A German longitudinal study suggested that the association between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and all-cause mortality in older adults may be modified by frailty, with a tendency toward lower risk among those with SBP≥130 mm Hg in frail older adults. The study included 1170 participants (median age 73.9 years, 41.6% […]
A longitudinal cohort study in Italy suggested that non-dipping and reverse dipping blood pressure (BP) patterns are associated with an increased prevalence of cardiac autonomic neuropathy and reduced survival. The study recruited 349 diabetic patients (52% women, age 57.1±11.9 y, BMI 29.4±5.9 kg/m2, HbA1c 8.6±2.1%, 284 with type 2 diabetes) […]
A pooled US cohorts study suggests that maintaining an optimal level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) throughout young adulthood and middle age can minimize the lifetime risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). The study included data of 18 288 participants (mean age 56.4, 56.4% women) collected from 1971 to 2017 from […]
A prospective observational study indicated that a healthy sleep pattern was associated with lower risks of atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF) and bradyarrhythmia, independent of traditional risk factors, and the association of the healthy sleep pattern with the risk of AF was stronger among those with a lower genetic risk of AF. […]
A Chinese multicenter, randomized, controlled trial concluded that intensive treatment with a systolic blood-pressure (SBP) target of 110 to less than 130 mm Hg resulted in a lower incidence of cardiovascular events than standard treatment with a target of 130 to less than 150 mm Hg. Of the 8511 hypertensive […]