June 15, 2020

COVID Got You Scared of Performing CPR? Study Finds Infection Risk Is Low

THURSDAY, June 11, 2020 -- Someone collapses with a cardiac arrest nearby -- in the COVID-19 era, do you dare to assist?

Here's some reassuring -- and potentially lifesaving -- news: You're at low risk for coronavirus infection if you perform CPR on someone in cardiac arrest, new research shows.

June 15, 2020

Drug Combos May Be Advance Against Heart Failure

WEDNESDAY, May 27, 2020 -- Many patients with heart failure might live years longer if they were on a combination of newer medications, a study suggests.

Researchers estimate that if certain heart failure patients were prescribed a four-pill regimen -- including three recently proven therapies -- they could live up to six years longer, compared with the regimen patients commonly use.

June 15, 2020

AHA News: Heart Fat Captures Researchers' Attention

FRIDAY, June 12, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Everyone has it. It's been known about for hundreds of years. But only recently have scientists begun to unravel its mysteries.

It has an unwieldly name: epicardial adipose tissue, or EAT. But researchers are learning how this pocket of fat beneath the outer lining of the heart plays a dynamic role in heart health. Like a cardiac version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, EAT sometimes serves as a protector against heart problems, but can also wreak havoc.

May 21, 2020

Heart Attack Cases at ERs Fall by Half – Are COVID Fears to Blame?

WEDNESDAY, May 20, 2020 -- U.S. emergency rooms are seeing about half as many heart attack patients as usual -- and researchers suspect the new coronavirus is the reason why.

It's not that fewer people are having heart attacks, doctors say. Rather, it's fear of getting COVID-19 keeping people from hospitals.

April 29, 2020

Fewer Americans Have High Cholesterol

WEDNESDAY, April 22, 2020 -- The number of American adults with high cholesterol dropped nearly 8 percentage points from 2000 to 2018, health officials reported Wednesday.

By 2018, just over 11%#37; of adults age 20 and over had high cholesterol, a major cause of heart disease, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

April 29, 2020

Have Heart Failure? Take Precautions During Pandemic

TUESDAY, April 28, 2020 -- Heart failure raises the risk of complications and death from COVID-19, and requires extra vigilance during the pandemic, the American Heart Association (AHA) says.

More than 6 million people in the United States have heart failure. It occurs when the heart no longer pumps blood as well as it should.