A new Swedish study has shown that elderly men in the highest quartile of serum testosterone levels have around a 30% lower risk of cardiovascular events over five years compared with men in the lower three quartiles.

And the association remains even after adjustment for traditional cardiovascular risk factors and excluding those with ca

Over half (60%) of individuals with heart disease and up to half of those who have had a stroke may not be receiving any of the 4 types of drug – antiplatelet agents, β-blockers, RAAS inhibitors, and statins – that are effective treatments for these conditions, according to PURE (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology), an

New data from the SHIFT trial show that in addition to the main result of a reduction in death/hospitalization patients on the heart-rate-lowering drug ivabradine

More recently the Eplerenone in Mild Patients Hospitalization And SurvIval Study in Heart Failure (EMPHASIS-HF) demonstrated a reduction of the primary endpoint which was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes and hospitalization for heart failure (hazard ratio [HR], 0.63; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.54 to 0.74; P<0.001) in patie