Lower urinary sodium excretion was not associated with less cardiovascular mortality or improved survival, raising questions about the true health benefits of current recommendations that favor cutting sodium intake population wide.
Financial concerns may discourage medical students from pursuing primary care careers, despite beliefs that internal medicine is meaningful work.
Adding a tai chi exercise program to standard medical care may help improve quality of life and mood among patients with heart failure.
Fear of developing side effects — even mild ones — would stop many older patients from taking medications that provide only average benefit in preventing heart attack.
Previous trials investigating cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) (biventricular pacing) combined with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in patients with heart failure have shown nonsignificant improvements in mortality compared with ICD monotherapy. But a newer study has promising results.
A simple blood test performed during regular annual physical exams may help clinicians promote smoking cessation among patients who are at high risk of developing emphysema.
A middle-aged man suffers a devastating stroke when his clinicians fail to pick up on his symptoms.
2011 American Heart Association guideline update now encourages practitioners to consider patient diversity when addressing cardiovascular disease risk.
Adults with type 2 diabetes died an average of six years earlier than those without the disease.
Researchers have pinpointed just how much an unfavorable BMI measurement raises mortality risk among the overweight and obese,
