Cardiology

People with abdominal aortic calcification have a two- to four-times higher risk of a future cardiovascular event, according to a study published Jan. 13 in Journal of the American Heart Association. The condition, a build-up of calcium in the abdominal…

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health will offer free virtual heart and vascular seminars once a week in February in recognition of American Heart Month, reports MassLive.

The American Heart Association and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine have created a national registry of college athletes who have had COVID-19 to help cardiologists better assess how the disease affects athletes' hearts.

Here are four partnerships and affiliations centered on cardiac and cardiovascular care announced recently.

Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center performed 148 heart transplants in 2020, the most of any transplant center in the world, according to a Jan. 12 news release. 

Thomas Costantino, MD, director of cardiology at Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital's campuses in Ocean Breeze and Prince's Bay, died Dec. 20 at age 80 after a long illness, reports the Staten Island Advance.

The COVID-19 pandemic is overshadowing an equally deadly health threat for much of rural America, a  rise of chronic heart and lung disease, three healthcare leaders wrote in a Jan. 9 op-ed for The Washington Post.

The American Heart Association is offering new learning modules to help researchers communicate their findings in a way the general public can better understand.

Below are four cardiologists who recently joined new practices.

Women with early breast cancer who received statins, or cholesterol-lowering drugs, during their chemotherapy had a lower risk of heart failure in the five years after their cancer treatment, according to a study published in the Journal of the American…