WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSIn 7,530 people from two long-running cohorts, central sleep apnea with high oxygen overshoot carried elevated cardiovascular risk. The same apnea with low overshoot did not.
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ANALYSISThe ESC released updated heart failure guidance plus first-ever guidelines on cardiac rehabilitation and on cardiovascular disease with chronic kidney disease. All three sit behind a paywall.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSDANISH-CRT randomised 1,000 patients to electrically targeted or conventional left ventricular lead placement. After nearly four years, death and heart failure admissions were the same.
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THESUS-HF II enrolled 1,578 patients across 50 hospitals in 17 countries. Guideline drugs were prescribed at discharge in most patients, and target doses were reached in fewer than half.
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ANALYSISA Lancet review triangulates the evidence linking adiposity to multisystem disease and finds robust trial support in a short list — while an expert panel argues the drugs must be lifelong.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSABYSS and SMART-DECISION together cover 6,238 stable patients. Discontinuation cleared both noninferiority margins, though the authors say the primary endpoint's composition limits what it shows.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSCARDIO-TTRansform randomised 1,432 patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy to eplontersen or placebo for 140 weeks. The confidence interval around the primary result crosses one.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSA meta-analysis of 90,000 people found these diabetes-origin drugs reduced kidney disease progression by 37% and cardiovascular events by 23%, and the benefit was similar in people who did not have diabetes.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSComparing US adults vaccinated just before and just after the changeover from the live to the recombinant shingles vaccine, researchers found a 9% lower cardiovascular burden over seven years.
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ANALYSISA first consolidated audit of PBS and PHARMAC cardiovascular listings from 2023 to 2025 finds a widening access gap between two neighbouring countries with similar disease burdens.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSIn 2,286 patients with sleep apnea undergoing major surgery, a measure of how deeply and how long oxygen fell — not the apnea-hypopnea index — tracked 30-day cardiovascular events and death.
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ANALYSISPpgAge predicts chronological age from consumer wearable photoplethysmography and tracks disease. The same optical method has documented accuracy problems across skin tones.
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ANALYSISPooling individual data from 23,340 people in four trials, empagliflozin cut kidney failure by 34% and slowed eGFR decline by 64% — regardless of how big an initial creatinine rise was expected.
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ANALYSISEchoNext scored 77.3% accuracy on a 150-ECG set where 13 cardiologists averaged 64.0%. Its authors released the model weights and a 100,000-ECG labelled dataset alongside the paper.
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