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Menopause Transition and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Implications for Timing of Early Prevention: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
Notably, the 2011 American Heart Association guidelines for CVD prevention in women (the latest sex-specific guidelines to date) did not include information now available about the contribution of the ...
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American Heart Association celebrates passage of Illinois bill training dispatchers to give CPR instructions
The American Heart Association has found only one out of three adults feel confident enough to perform CPR in an emergency. A ...
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AHA Scientific Statement Addresses Palliative Care in Adults With Advanced CVD
A scientific statement has been published by the AHA regarding palliative care and advanced cardiovascular disease in adults.
Hospital heart failure program linked to lower death rates and better long-term survival
Hospitalized heart failure patients in the United States are living longer and receiving more optimized evidence-based care, ...
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ACC issues guidance for heart monitoring via Apple Watch
The American College of Cardiology has issued a new tool to help physicians leverage Apple Watch heart monitoring capabilities accurately and safely.  Developed with funding and support from Apple, ...
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Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Valvular Heart Lesions
Current guidelines provide specific recommendations for the use of DOACs to reduce stroke risk in patients with NVAF; however, reduction in SSE risk in patients with AF in the setting of specific ...
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Fast action from bystanders can improve cardiac arrest survival. Many don’t know what to do
By Michelle Andrews, KFF Health News When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back ...