Japanese researchers believe they’ve identified a genetic risk marker that could pinpoint which people with atrial fibrillation (AFib) are at risk of developing tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy.

Home-delivered sodium-restricted Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH/SRD) meals after heart failure (HF) hospitalizations appeared safe in some patients, has the potential to improve HF symptoms and can reduce readmissions, according to new research in Circulation: Heart Failure.

Investor’s Business Daily published a profile of Johns Hopkins physician Helen Brooke Taussig, MD, who overcame an initial rejection to medical school due to gender discrimination and went on to create the field of pediatric cardiology.

Developing type 1 diabetes before the age of 10 shortens the lifespans of women by almost 18 years and of men by about 14 years, according to a Swedish registry study published in The Lancet.

The Music Therapy Program at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas integrates music into stroke patients’ healing process to help patients relax after stroke. It is also a way to help meet health targets set by patients’ speech therapists.

Women are more likely to survive a heart attack if their emergency room physician is also a woman, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Swedish researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the endothelial dysfunction found in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D): increased expression of the arginase I protein in red blood cells.

Consuming an array of foods sounds reasonable in theory but may ultimately backfire, according to the authors of a scientific advisory statement published online Aug. 9 in Circulation.