Heart Failure
October 13, 2025
Specialist Care Can Improve HF Outcomes Across the Board October 13, 2025
A recent study out of the U.K. suggests that multidisciplinary team management could significantly reduce death or rehospitalization risk for HF patients across the LVEF spectrum. Based in a single U.K. county, the Buckinghamshire analysis examined 2.1k patients hospitalized for acute heart failure who received either specialist care or standard care over a 618-day follow-up […]
Cardiology Testing
October 9, 2025
Screening For Lp(a) is Still Too Uncommon October 9, 2025
A recent JACC analysis of the Epic Cosmos database suggests lipoprotein(a) screening is still one of cardiology’s most neglected risk assessment tools, representing a serious gap in the way we evaluate patients’ CVD risk. To learn more about Lp(a) testing trends, researchers searched for Lp(a) screening patterns in the Epic Cosmos database from 2015-2024 across […]
Cardiogenetics
October 6, 2025
Secondary Cardiomyopathy Isn’t so Secondary After All October 6, 2025
Secondary cardiomyopathies might not be caused by environmental factors after all, after a massive four-biobank study found that their development is a lot more dependent on which combination of genetic risks you already have. The multi-biobank genetic analysis examined nearly 1.3M individuals identifying 3.4k people with secondary cardiomyopathies (70 PPCM, 2,281 ACM, 1,063 CCM). Upon […]
