The ACC is currently accepting nominations for the ACC Distinguished Excellence in Cardiovascular Health Care Quality award, presented annually during ACC Quality Summit to a nonphysician member whose ...

Truncating LMNA variants are associated with worse arrhythmic outcomes regardless of variant location, whereas missense variants affecting the tail domain and located in exons 7-12 have better ...

Connect with employers in cardiology at ACC's Virtual Career Fair. Join us on Thursday, Sept. 17 from 5 to 8 p.m. ET to explore employers' virtual booths, chat one-on-one with recruiters and learn ...

Chest pain is one of the most common reasons that people seek medical care. This guideline was developed for the evaluation of acute or stable chest pain in outpatient and emergency department ...

Lipoprotein (a) (Lp [a]) is a low-density lipoprotein–like molecule with an apolipoprotein (b) moiety that is covalently attached to apolipoprotein (a) (Apo [a]), a plasminogen-like protein that ...

The 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol was a welcome update from the 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular ...

Contact: Olivia Walther, [email protected], WASHINGTON (Dec 11, 2023) - A world without cardiovascular disease (CVD) is possible, yet millions of lives are lost prematurely to heart disease each year, ...

Introduction Standard lipid testing, represented by total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides, is a ...

More Than Skin Color: Ethnicity-Specific BMI Cutoffs For Obesity Based on Type 2 Diabetes Risk in England ...

The following are key points to remember from this state-of-the-art review on spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD): SCAD causes an acute coronary event related to compression of the true ...

Contact: Nicole Napoli, [email protected], 202-375-6523 Washington (Sep 21, 2023) - Many of the nation’s most prominent cardiovascular organizations, representing tens of thousands of physicians, unite ...

Health care professionals should use a 14-element checklist when evaluating healthy, young individuals ages 12-25 for congenital and genetic heart disease vs initial screening using electrocardiograms ...