A review published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology this month suggests that an excess of 2 million patients with cardiovascular disease also use marijuana.

Black patients at a heightened risk for heart disease cut their CV mortality risk by 11% in a study that explored the cardiac benefits of the Transcendental Meditation technique.

A medical technique that involves safely hyperventilating conscious, unmedicated patients could facilitate the use of radiotherapy for cardiac ablation, according to research published in Frontiers in Physiology. 

A mouse study has revealed that smoking hookah—inhaling tobacco through a long water pipe—can cause blood to function abnormally and clot.

The FDA has approved Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic—once-weekly semaglutide—for an expanded indication of CV risk reduction in people with type 2 diabetes and established heart disease.

Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Jan. 14 revealed that one in six cases of vaping-related lung illness, or EVALI, can be linked to legally purchased cannabis products.

Women’s blood vessels age at a faster rate than men’s, researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai reported this month—a finding that could explain some of the considerable sex gaps in CVD in men and women.

A cross-structural analysis published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings this January independently links diabetes to the development of heart failure, suggesting diabetic cardiomyopathy is a real—and growing—issue in the U.S.