BACKGROUND: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a life-threatening vascular disease with no effective pharmacological treatments. The causal role of triglycerides (TGs) in AAA development remains ...

Welcome listeners. Now we're jumping into the month of August, and on this August 5th issue of Circulation on the Run, I'm one of your co-hosts Dr. Greg Hundley, associate editor director of the ...

Contemporary atrial fibrillation (AF) screening relies on ECG and photoplethysmography in hospitals or on data derived from wearable devices, which are constrained by limited accessibility and high ...

BACKGROUND: Whether cannabis is a risk factor for cardiovascular events is unknown. We examined the association between smoking cannabis and cardiovascular events in a cohort of older veterans (66 to ...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common comorbidity in hypertension. However, the impact of NAFLD and related fibrosis on hypertension and its control of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and ...

Hypertension affects over 1.3 billion people, and it is a major contributor to death and morbidity from cardiovascular disease and stroke. iRAS (inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system) are used ...

The ductus arteriosus is a normal vascular connection between the pulmonary artery and the aorta that is essential to fetal circulation. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) prevalence is inversely ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for ≈18 million deaths annually worldwide, 1 with major disparities between low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries. LMICs contribute a ...

Gene Ontology analysis from differentially expressed genes revealed expected changes in cell cycle, metabolism, and contractility. In addition, mRNA splicing was among the top enriched differentially ...

Preventive therapy for cardioembolic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation is anticoagulation, and current guideline recommends direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) as alternatives to vitamin K ...

Advances in pediatric cardiology, congenital cardiac surgery, and intensive care medicine have significantly improved survival of children with congenital heart disease (CHD). 1, 2 Patients with CHD ...

That a second stroke may also have a positive impact seems counter-intuitive at first but fits well in the body’s toolbox of self-protection. In a rat model of ischemic stroke, Zeiler and coworkers ...