Replacing Saturated Fat With Polyunsaturated Fat May Cut Heart Disease Risk

Although for nearly 60 years people have been urged to decrease their consumption of saturated fats to prevent heart disease, until now there has been surprisingly little scientific evidence that doing so actually decreased the risk of coronary heart disease events...

Patients At Risk For Complications After Coronary Artery Fistula Closure

Long-term complications after procedures to close coronary artery fistulas are particularly prevalent among those whose abnormal connections to the heart result in drainage into the coronary sinus, according to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, a journal of the American Heart Association...

St. Michael's Researchers Part Of International Team To Study Health Literacy Among Indigenous People Living With Cardiovascular Disease

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto are part of an international team of researchers recently awarded a multi-million dollar grant for their work in cardiovascular disease among Indigenous people in Canada, Australia and New Zealand...

Pioneering Work On Arterial Plaque And Cardiovascular Disease

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) research team has received a four-year, $1.4 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue a groundbreaking study of arterial plaque. This research could lead to tools that will enable physicians to predict the likelihood of plaque rupture, which is responsible for most heart attacks and strokes...

Study On Physiological Responses To Stress Reveals Gender Difference

Age and gender play a major role in how people respond to stress, according to a new study on 20-to-64-year-olds. Published in the journal Psychophysiology, the investigation was led by scientists from the Universite de Montreal and the Montreal Heart Institute in collaboration with colleagues from the Universite du Quebec a Montreal and McGill University...

The British Heart Foundation Welcomes New Draft NICE Guidance On Dronedarone

In response to new draft NICE guidance published today, recommending limited use of dronedarone for atrial fibrillation (AF), June Davison, Senior Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation (BHF) said: "The BHF welcomes the new draft guidance published today by NICE...

New Draft NICE Guidance Recommends Limited Use Of Dronedarone For Atrial Fibrillation

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is currently appraising the use of dronedarone (Multaq) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) - a disturbance of the heart's rhythm...