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Washington, D.C., May 15, 2012 — American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown issued the following comments on today’s recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Task Force on Community Preventive Services on...

Study Highlights: If your parents have high blood pressure, you can significantly lower your risk of developing the disease with moderate exercise and increased cardiovascular fitness. People with low fitness levels and hypertensive parents have a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, May 11, 2012   DURHAM, N.C. – Competing cardiac care teams in some of the nation’s most populated areas will start working together to markedly reduce the time from heart attack to treatment as part...

FRIDAY NEWS TIP May 11, 2012   Embargoed for 9:30 a.m. ET Depression and reports of having poor quality of life are more likely in male heart failure patients than in women or men without heart failure, according to research presented at the...

FRIDAY NEWS TIPMay 11, 2012   Embargoed for 9 a.m. ET The effectiveness of heart bypass grafts and angioplasty procedures on five-year survival varies significantly by gender, diabetes and other factors, researchers reported at the American...

Highlights: Differences in regional hospital readmission rates for heart failure are more closely linked to the availability of care and socioeconomic factors than to hospital performance or patients’ degree of illness. These findings...

Highlights: It’s safe to treat acute ischemic stroke patients who take the blood thinner warfarin with the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) when used according to American Heart Association/American Stroke Association...