Increasing educational public health initiatives across 16 North Carolina counties resulted in improved response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and better rates of survival, a study published in JAMA Cardiology reports.

ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI) patients are at their greatest risk for ischemic and bleeding events shortly after PCI, with both risks dropping significantly over time. However, ischemic events are more common between 30 days and one year, supporting the extended use of intensified antiplatelet therapy, according to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

According to a Danish study, 24 percent of people who return to work after a heart attack leave their job within a year.

Kids who push aside leafy greens might be lacking vitamin K and could be at increased risk for heart problems later in life, according to new research from Augusta University.

When compared to people who consumed more than 20 percent of their daily energy at breakfast, habitual breakfast skippers were at a 1.55-fold increased risk of noncoronary atherosclerosis and a 2.57-fold increased risk of generalized atherosclerosis, independent of traditional and dietary cardiovascular risk factors.

A new JAMA: Cardiology study comparing the outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in black and white patients showed no difference in one-year mortality rates, but it did shed light on other racial gaps in the cardiovascular treatment process.

Middle-aged and older residents in the hardest-hit areas suffered 25 percent more cardiovascular-related deaths in the year after the Canterbury earthquakes when compared to neighbors in lesser-impacted areas.

Patients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD)—despite being considered “fit” and participating in phase III cardiac rehabilitation—demonstrated worse cognitive function when compared to healthy, age-matched individuals in a single-center study published in PLOS One.