May 04 2024

Children with high blood pressure face long-term risk for cardiovascular disease

TORONTO — Children with high blood pressure are more likely to be at risk for a stroke, heart attack or other major cardiac event later in life, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.
High blood pressure affects 6% of children and is often unrecognized, according to Cal Robinson, MD, a pediatric nephrology fellow and PhD student at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and colleagues.
Robinson told Healio that the goal of the study was to better understand the long-term risks that children with high blood pressure will face.
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May 04 2024

Secondary CV prevention risk profiles poorer among patients with stroke vs. MI history

Patients with stroke history had significantly poorer CV prevention profiles compared with patients with history of MI, with pronounced disparities based on race and neighborhood deprivation status, according to study results.
“Despite stroke and myocardial infarction survivors sharing similar cardiovascular risk profiles, our analysis reveals that patients with stroke have consistently worse risk factor control compared with patients with myocardial infarction across several risk vascular targets, including blood pressure and low-density lipoprotein control, as well as statin and

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May 04 2024

Novel tool helps predict risk for heart complications after bone marrow transplant

Researchers have created a novel tool that predicts a person’s risk for cardiovascular complications after bone marrow transplantation.
Investigators created the Cardiovascular Registry in Bone Marrow Transplantation (CARE-BMT), which collects information on patients who underwent transplant at University of Michigan Health or Rush University.
Analyses of data from more than 3,300 patients who underwent BMT between 2008 and 2019 showed 4.1% of patients experienced cardiovascular events within 100 days, and 13.9% developed such complications within 5 years.
Researchers used data from the

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May 04 2024

Rare Pregnancy Problem Linked to Thiopurines, FDA Says

(MedPage Today) -- Use of thiopurines has been linked with a rare risk of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), primarily in patients taking the drugs for inflammatory bowel disease or lupus, the FDA said in a communication to health providers... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)

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May 03 2024

Natural compounds in gut microbiome show promise for inflammation treatment

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found naturally occurring compounds in the gut that can be harnessed to reduce inflammation and other symptoms of digestive issues.

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