In the ISCHEMIA trial, women with chronic coronary disease received less-intense guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) overall compared with men and were thus less likely to achieve various goals ...

For decades it’s been understood that certain risk factors explain the majority of cardiovascular events, until several recent studies claimed that coronary heart disease can develop without them. But ...

Your risk for pancreatic cancer increases as you get older. It’s also more common in males than females. But avoiding smoking, eating a balanced diet, exercising enough, and limiting alcohol ...

In a recent study published in PLoS One, researchers assess population-attributable risk variables for cause-specific and all-cause mortality due to type 2 diabetes. Study: Age-specific population ...

Kidney cancer is one of the 10 most-diagnosed cancers in the United States. Like many of the other cancers on that list—including colon and rectal cancer—kidney cancer is more common now than it used ...

And the researchers believe that understanding the specific risk factors that nearly all CHD victims had at least one of is key to better understanding a person's clinical vulnerabilities. According ...

One in 33 babies in the United States are born with birth defects. But a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising awareness of ways to lower that risk. The study points ...