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The latest cardiology news from News Medical |
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|  | | | | |  Thirty years of data reveal changing heart health trends in obesity A study reveals narrowing gaps in blood pressure and cholesterol between obesity and normal BMI, highlighting evolving cardiometabolic risks over three decades. | |  | | | | |  Blood protein clocks flag higher risks of death and chronic disease Proteomic age clocks applied to two European cohorts linked faster biological aging with smoking, alcohol use, physical inactivity, all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, dementia, and several cancers. The Global proteomic clock predicted mortality as well as established lifestyle risk factors, while organ-specific clocks showed stronger links with related cancers of the kidney, lung, and stomach. | | | | | | |  Racial disparities in hypertension onset among women The study highlights that Black women develop hypertension almost a decade earlier than White women, calling for targeted interventions to reduce disparities. | |
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|  | | |  Published in the open-access journal Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress, the review by Giovanni Cravin and Giorgio Cozza from the University of Padua examines the growing evidence linking ferroptosis to the pathogenesis of Friedreich's Ataxia (FRDA), a rare inherited neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive neurological decline, cardiomyopathy, and premature mortality. | | | | |  GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA) medications were shown to reduce the number of deaths, amputations and hospitalizations among people with Type 2 diabetes who also had narrowed leg arteries associated with PAD (peripheral artery disease), according to new, independent research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. | | | | |  In severe disease of the aortic valve, choosing a new heart valve is especially difficult for young women who want to become pregnant. | |
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