Cardiology

People with elevated risks for heart attack or stroke are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized and require intensive care unit admission if they contract COVID-19, new research from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases…

Here are five cardiologists who have recently stepped into new roles: 

Anekwe Onwuanyi, MD, has been elected the 19th president of the Association of Black Cardiologists. 

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System launched an outpatient pediatric cardiology practice across eight locations in Virginia and Maryland, it said last week. 

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System launched an outpatient pediatric cardiology practice across eight locations in Virginia and Maryland, it said last week. 

Around 1 in 4 adults have a commonly missed liver condition that increases the risk of heart disease, the American Heart Association said April 14.

Around 1 in 4 adults have a commonly missed liver condition that increases the risk of heart disease, the American Heart Association said April 14.

Atlantic Health System's Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center launched the first hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and sports cardiology fellowship in the U.S., it said April 11.

Here are seven recent cardiology-related studies published by Becker's since Feb. 1, starting with the most recent:

The Medical University of South Carolina recently became the first academic medical center, and second medical center in the world, to use a minimally invasive procedure to implant a heart failure treatment device, it said April 9.