Daytime sleepiness and poor sleep patterns might be linked to hypertension in black women, researchers reported last week at the American Heart Association’s Joint Hypertension 2018 Scientific Sessions in Chicago. The same trial also connected excessive fatigue to inactivity and obesity.

Current guidelines justify treating most patients 75 and older with cholesterol-lowering drugs based on their estimated risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, a new cohort study published in The BMJ suggests statins are ineffective at primary prevention in this elderly population.

Patients with sepsis are at a greater risk for heart attack and stroke in the four weeks following hospital discharge, research out of Taiwan has found, with more than half of all adverse CVD events in the ensuing six months occurring within 35 days of leaving the hospital. 

The benefits of a telemonitoring hypertension intervention waned after patients returned to a normal care strategy, according to a study published Sept. 7 in JAMA Network Open.

Black and Hispanic children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at a higher risk of increasing blood glucose levels than white children, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Using existing iPhone features and a novel application, researchers at Michigan State University are exploring whether individuals can measure their blood pressure (BP) simply by pressing a fingertip to the screen.

Swapping singular blood pressure measurements for long-term, cumulative ones could improve CVD risk prediction models, Northwestern University researchers report in the current online edition of JAMA Cardiology.

Chronic kidney disease is a marker of adverse outcomes in patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (non-STEMI), according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Cardiology. And even though percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary angiography (CAG) are linked to improved outcomes in those patients, they’re also drastically underutilized in clinical practice.