For patients with atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation reduces the risks for ischemic stroke at more than 30 days, mortality, and HF hospitalization.

Women with cardiovascular disease (CVD) have a substantially higher adiposity-associated risk for breast cancer.

For each 1-μg/m3 increase in the past 2-year average smoke PM2.5, the risk for heart failure was increased by 1.014% compared with nonsmoke PM2.5; annually, this association corresponded to an ...

A study has found that, compared with men, women are less likely to be listed for DCD heart donation or receive DCD heart transplantation.

Younger patients with cardiac hardware, intravenous drug use, or who are receiving dialysis are at increased risk for Candida endocarditis.