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Having no one to talk to is associated with worse self-rated mental and physical health

Poor Social Network Adds Health Risks Across Cardiac Diagnoses

Having no one to talk to linked to worse self-rated mental and physical health, anxiety, depression
Mobile health technology can potentially improve overall cardiovascular disease risk

Some Evidence Mobile Health Interventions Can Lower CVD Risk

mHealth programs generally improve overall cardiovascular disease risk, at least in the short term
Compared to saphenous-vein grafts

Radial-Artery Grafts Better Than Saphenous-Vein Grafts in CABG

Lower adverse cardiac events seen at five-year follow-up after coronary-artery bypass surgery
Job strain is associated with an increased risk of death among men with cardiometabolic disease

Job Strain May Raise Death Risk in Men With Cardiometabolic Dz

Increased mortality greater than excess linked to HTN, obesity, physical inactivity, high alcohol intake
Limited health literacy is a barrier to cardiovascular health and prevention of cardiovascular disease

AHA: Limited Health Literacy Is Barrier to Cardiovascular Care

Use of Universal Precautions Toolkit recommended for improving quality of care
Revising the 2013 pooled cohort equations can improve accuracy of cardiovascular disease risk prediction

Revising Pooled Cohort Equations Improves CVD Risk Prediction

Use of updated equations would relabel about 11.8 million high-risk U.S. adults as lower-risk

May 2018 Briefing – Cardiology

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Cardiology for May 2018. This roundup includes the latest...
In postmenopausal women

Postmenopausal Sex Hormone Levels Associated With Later CVD

Higher testosterone/estradiol ratio linked to elevated risk for incident cardiovascular disease
Male thyroid cancer survivors have a nearly 50 percent higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease than female survivors within five years of cancer diagnosis

Male Thyroid Cancer Survivors Face Higher CVD Risk

Age at diagnosis, sex, BMI, and thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression therapy affect CVD risk
Adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with an attenuation in the effects of air pollution

Mediterranean Diet May Lessen Adverse Impact of Air Pollution

Adherence to Mediterranean diet may attenuate association of NO2 with all-cause mortality