Cranberry's Vascular Effects; Cardioprotective Penile Vibrations; EHR Score for CAD

— Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine

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Blood pressure among young people predicted greater risk for major adverse cardiovascular and renal events. (Hypertension)

High triglycerides flag an excess risk of recurrent atherothrombotic stroke, , registry data showed. (Neurology)

Boys with were prone to more cardiovascular disease in adulthood, a small Scottish study found. (European Heart Journal)

Eating daily led to better heart and blood vessel function. (Food & Function)

Cardiac function can be preserved after spinal cord injury via -- by means of penile vibrostimulation. (Nature Communications)

An EHR score, based on machine learning, helped the pooled cohort equations and a polygenic risk score . (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)

Detection of heart transplant rejection may be faster in the future -- performed well in a large study. (Nature Medicine)

may be of some prognostic use in a primary prevention setting. (Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging)

Women saw less radiation-induced left ventricular dysfunction if they employed a during left-sided breast irradiation, a pilot study showed. (JACC: CardioOncology)

did not appear to trigger acute myocardial infarction in a population-based nationwide study from Norway and Sweden. (Annals of Internal Medicine)

Might heart failure patients with limited English proficiency benefit from the on inpatient and outpatient teams? (JACC: Heart Failure)

People with a history of myocarditis did not appear to have safety issues with , according to a small French study pending peer review. (NBC News)

More evidence that is a risk factor for fixed atherosclerotic coronary stenosis requiring angioplasty. (Heart)

A household salt substitution intervention in rural China was , the SSaSS group found. (Circulation)

Also in China, just complied with class I recommended medical therapies. (JAMA Cardiology)

Students remember who discovered Takotsubo syndrome; he died last November. (European Heart Journal)

A young woman was successfully thanks to two cardiologists on board the plane. (NBC Today)

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    Nicole Lou is a reporter for , where she covers cardiology news and other developments in medicine.