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This cross-sectional study evaluated the changes in the proportion of US adults who were unaware they had hypertension, diabetes, or a high cholesterol level using 2013 to 2023 data from the National ...

The control of blood pressure in patients with treatment-resistant hypertension is paramount and requires the use of thiazide or loop diuretics to enhance renal salt excretion and reduce expanded body...

This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of bedtime vs morning administration of antihypertensive medication on the rate of all-cause death or major cardiovascular events among patients with...

In the CRHCP-3 cluster-randomized trial, blood pressure reduction lowered the risk of all-cause dementia by 15% in 33,995 individuals with hypertension.

For a variety of reasons, geriatric care experts told BI it's been hard attracting new doctors to the field. It's a problem for an aging US population.

AbstractBackground. More than one in three adults with hypertension in the United States are unaware of their condition, highlighting the importance of lar

This Guide to Statistics and Methods describes design, interpretation, and examples of a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial.

Chronic liver disease (CLD) affects more than 1.5 billion adults, most of whom are asymptomatic and undiagnosed. Echocardiography is broadly performed and visualizes the liver, but this information...

Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.

The drastic reduction in indirect costs is not a path to innovation or cost savings — it’s a threat to U.S.’s position as global leader in medical research.

Background The Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) Study was designed to determine the effects of a best-practice hearing intervention on cognitive decline among community-dwel...

An app-based program failed to boost function for most at 3 months, but positive signs were seen in women and after CABG.

This randomized clinical trial investigates whether a home-based mobile health cardiac rehabilitation intervention improves 6-minute walk distance in adults aged 65 years or older after hospitalizatio...

Myocardial fibrosis is a key healing response after myocardial infarction driven by activated fibroblasts. Gallium-68-labeled fibroblast activation pr…

People living in rural parts of the country live shorter lives, on average, than their urban counterparts, largely due to heart disease. That disparity grew during the pandemic.

More work is needed to understand how to act preemptively on elevated heart failure risk, one researcher says.

Digital health technologies have been proposed as a potential solution to improving maternal cardiovascular (CV) health in the postpartum (PP) period.…

n (mHealth-CR) are unknown. We aimed to identify patterns of adherence to HBPM in a cohort of older adults undergoing mHealth-CR to optimize HBPM use in the future. Methods: We used interim data fr...