By Nicole Lou
As long as people got their weekly recommended moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), it didn’t matter if they did it on a “weekend warrior” schedule or more regularly throughout the week, a study found.
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By Regina Schaffer and Scott Buzby
In 2020, heart disease remained among the leading causes of death, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have exacerbated preexisting CVD morbidity-related racial and ethnic disparities.
As the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than 3.3 million overall deaths were registered in the U.S., which exceeded the 2019 figure by more than 500,000 deaths, according to the American Heart Association’s annual Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics update. Read the full story in Healio.
By Regina Schaffer
Genetic variants associated with CVD found incidentally during testing should be interpreted with caution using a framework that includes a multidisciplinary team of experts, according to a new scientific statement.
“There has been a tremendous expansion in our ability to interrogate the genome for the causes of disease,” Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and cell biology at Duke University School of Medicine, told Healio.
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Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were associated with higher risk for coronary artery disease and stroke, which was only partially mediated by cardiometabolic factors, according to findings from a study using mendelian randomization. Read more in Healio.
A multinational collaborative report of global disease trends and risk factors shows CVD remains the leading cause of death and hypertension remains the leading modifiable risk factor for premature CV death worldwide, researchers reported.
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A growing body of evidence suggests cancer survivors face elevated risk for cardiovascular disease years after diagnosis.
Now, findings from analysis of data on about 12,000 people followed over decades have strengthened the evidence indicating a strong link between cancer survival and cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly heart failure. Read more in Healio.