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Intensive LDL cholesterol-lowering shows major benefits for heart disease patients

29.03.2026 01:57

Using cholesterol-lowering medications more intensively to achieve a more aggressive target for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reduced the rate of major cardiovascular events by one-third...

Evolocumab reduces cardiac events in high-risk diabetic patients

29.03.2026 01:42

The cholesterol-lowering therapy evolocumab reduced the risk of major adverse cardiac events by nearly one-third among patients who had no known significant atherosclerosis and had diabetes, according...

Home-delivered DASH diet improves blood pressure and cholesterol outcomes

29.03.2026 01:35

Black adults with high blood pressure who received dietitian counseling and home deliveries of groceries aligned with the DASH diet—meaning high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, n...

Investigational drug lowers angiotensinogen but shows unclear blood pressure benefits

29.03.2026 01:18

The investigational drug tonlamarsen—which is designed to lower blood pressure by reducing the production of angiotensinogen, a protein that turns into the hormone that regulates blood pressure—ca...

Intensive cholesterol‑lowering therapy reduces first major cardiac event in high‑risk patients with diabetes

29.03.2026 01:03

Mass General Brigham researchers found that the intensive cholesterol‑lowering therapy evolocumab reduced the risk of a first major cardiovascular event in high‑risk patients who did not have know...

Hypercortisolism found in many patients with resistant hypertension

28.03.2026 18:15

The MOMENTUM study found 27 percent of patients with resistant hypertension have hypercortisolism. This is a significant finding, demonstrating that hypercortisolism is more common in these patients t...

Microaxial flow pump fails to reduce heart damage in STEMI trial

28.03.2026 16:52

Using a microaxial flow pump prior to and during cardiac stenting procedures for patients with severe heart attacks who don't have cardiogenic shock does not significantly reduce heart damage.

Catheter-based approach improves prognosis in pulmonary embolism patients

28.03.2026 16:44

Patients who had low doses of clot-buster drugs delivered directly to the site of a pulmonary embolism (PE) via a catheter using ultrasound to enhance their effect had significantly better outcomes th...

Temporary heart pump before PCI shows no significant benefit

28.03.2026 16:38

The first randomized trial to test whether adding a small, temporary pump to allow the heart to rest and intentionally delaying percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also known as coronary angiopl...

Left atrial appendage closure matches anticoagulants in AFib patients

28.03.2026 16:30

For patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AFib) who had no contraindications to taking oral anticoagulants, the use of a device to close off the left atrial appendage in the heart—a small ...