BACKGROUND: Identifying and addressing barriers to antihypertensive medication adherence is critical for hypertension control ...

BACKGROUND: Genetic variants in components or regulators of the RAS-MAPK signaling pathway are causative for severe and early-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in patients with Noonan syndrome ...

CM uniquely uses hands-on instruction to facilitate knowledge transfer, offering a unique opportunity for patients with ...

The past 25 years have witnessed remarkable developments in statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data. Despite these important advances, researchers in the biomedical sciences have ...

Timely reperfusion is critical for salvaging ischemic tissue in myocardial infarction, in stroke, and during resuscitation. Paradoxically, the reperfusion of blood into the ischemic organ is damaging ...

More than 80 million people in the United States have some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD)—for example, coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, or heart failure—and millions of ...

Three sets of vessels comprise the circulatory system: arteries, lymphatics, and veins. Arteries bring oxygen-carrying blood from the heart to the tissues. In the normal course of blood circulation, ...

In this study, we present the 3-dimensional structure of the human left ventricular myocardium from subjects without apparent cardiac abnormalities at the time of autopsy. Backscattered electron ...

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy. A wise woman wishes to be no one’s victim. The thematic element of psychosocial stress among Black women, compounded by pregnancy as a stress test, ushers in ...

Introduction: Randomized controlled trials in the young population concluded that moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) was ineffective in lowering blood pressure (BP). The associations of ...

The study by Schwartz et al in this issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology sheds new light on how SFAs cause adipose tissue inflammation. In this study THP-1 monocytes and human ...

An 80-year-old woman was admitted for lethargy and vomiting after diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Initially, her symptoms were attributed to sedation; however, after failing to improve four hours ...