When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized 11 times. She had been born with two rare heart abnormalities, Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Two leading cardiology groups have joined forces to position heart failure as a preventable condition, encouraging clinicians to recognize and manage key risk factors decades before symptoms appear.
The SGLT2 inhibitor medicines have changed how heart failure is managed. Originally, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors were used to lower blood sugar levels in people who have type 2 ...
Heart failure (HF) is estimated to affect over 60 million people globally and its prevalence is expected to rise as a consequence of aging populations. It results from an inability of the heart to ...
The heart failure (HF) treatment landscape continues to evolve rapidly in 2026, with emerging evidence pointing toward a ...
A new peer-reviewed study led by Truveta and collaborators at Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, and Duke University School of Medicine found that most patients with newly identified ...
Elizabeth Cooney became STAT’s cardiovascular reporter in April with one fundamental question in mind: Why do we have so much cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and how can we do better? Liz covers ...
How Does Jardiance Work for Heart Failure? Jardiance helps to lower the workload on the heart. Normally, the kidneys filter in a way that keeps all of the sugar in the bloodstream rather than allowing ...
Nearly 1 in 2 Americans has high blood pressure—sometimes called the "silent killer" because it harms the heart and blood vessels—but many people don't know they have it. In a study being presented at ...
These two conditions affect how well your heart can pump blood. Cardiomyopathy can sometimes lead to heart failure. Cardiomyopathy and heart failure are both conditions in which your heart has a more ...
Your evening routines and activities are a crucial part of keeping your heart strong and healthy. “Irregular bedtimes, ...