Hypertension
October 23, 2025
Intensive BP Lowering Doesn’t Hurt Patient QoL October 23, 2025
Intensive blood pressure lowering might enhance patient wellbeing, after the deeper analysis of the ESPRIT trial demonstrated that lowering systolic BP to <120 mmHg leads to modest but significant improvements in health-related quality of life. To fill in these gaps, the ESPRIT QoL analysis examined 5.4k intensive treatment and 5.4k standard treatment participants over a […]
Heart Failure
October 20, 2025
Don’t Blame Your Heart for Heart Failure October 20, 2025
Perhaps the biggest cardiology story of the year, an entire issue of JACC now hypothesizes that heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) might actually be caused by visceral fat tissue that triggers cardiac weakening through adipokine signaling. The new unifying adiposity framework now proposes that visceral fat expansion causes secretion of an altered adipokine […]
Cardiology Business
October 16, 2025
MedAxiom Report: Cardiologist Compensation Soars, Patient Access Struggles October 16, 2025
Good news and bad news from MedAxiom’s latest cardiology compensation survey. The good news? Cardiologist median compensation reached new record highs last year. The bad news? Patient access deteriorated while the number of patients physicians had to manage swelled. The 2025 survey findings aggregated data across cardiology, cardiac surgery, and vascular surgery specialties, examining compensation […]
