Cardiology

In this week's Homerun Slides, understanding blood pressure classification.

Method to identify prediabetes found to impact risk of heart disease or death.

Risk for stroke significantly increased, but exceeded by heart failure

In this week's Homerun Slides, defining albuminuria, a marker for kidney dysfunction.

Individuals with undiagnosed diabetes, prediabetes found to have high incidence of unrecognized chronic kidney disease.

Studies find greater risk reduction following treatment of patients with dyslipidemia.

In this week's Homerun Slides, understanding the relationship between diabetes and hypertension.

Trials find intensive control reduced cardiovascular events in high-risk, diagnosed patients.

Excessive weight gain due to intensive therapy can lead to increased cardiovascular risk factors.

Protecting the heart and helping to reduce mortality, study takes closer look at beta-adrenoceptor inhibition in diabetes.