Cardiology
October 30, 2025
The Top Trends of TCT 2025 October 30, 2025
This year marked the 37th Annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference, and while the core of the conference is still catheter-based heart therapies, this year’s research studies and device demonstrations made it clearer than ever that cardiac medtech continues to push the boundaries of what can be done with a catheter. Structural Heart is King – […]
Cardiovascular Disease
October 27, 2025
Genetic Risk Scores Improve CAD Detection October 27, 2025
Coronary artery disease risk assessment might soon rely on genetic testing, following a UK Biobank analysis that suggests adding a CAD multi-gene risk score to conventional biomarkers significantly improves disease prediction and patient identification. Examining genetic profiles, researchers followed 353k UK Biobank participants without baseline CAD for 11 years on average, and compared the predictive […]
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 […]
