People with symptomatic heart failure may be able to reduce their risk of premature death by taking a drug originally designed for type 2 diabetes, according to new treatment guidelines from the ...

The American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the Heart Failure Society of America released new guidelines Friday that add a fourth class of medication to the recommended ...

The new guidelines now include the importance of enough sleep. Maintaining a healthy heart is a challenge for many people. It requires dedication to a workout regimen, eating healthy food and staying ...

A new joint guideline from three leading cardiology organizations focuses on preventing heart failure in patients showing early signs of “pre-heart failure” and updating treatment strategies for ...

Two University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing faculty, Associate Professor and Senior Director of the Center for Nursing Excellence at UAB Hospital and HRTSA Clinic Connie White-Williams, ...

Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at ...

Current US heart failure guidelines that use a single cut point for natriuretic peptides (NPs) can underestimate the risk for the disease for people with obesity, according to a study published ...

A focused update of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Heart Failure Guidelines is published online today in European Heart Journal following the results of major new trials that should change ...

Inconsistent adherence to the guidelines led to delayed heart failure treatment optimization and underutilization of key therapies. Published in the European Journal of Heart Failure, the survey ...