Trial finds drug-coated balloon angioplasty less effective than second generation drug-eluting stents

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Novel drug-coated balloons (DCB) did not outshine standard treatment with second generation drug-eluting stents (DES) as they were expected to, in a surprise finding of the

Personalized clotting profiles may help in next generation of precision heart disease treatments

People at risk from strokes and heart attacks could benefit from personalised clotting profiles to help clinicians prescribe more precise treatments, thanks to new research. In a paper published in

Decades after blood pressure-related pregnancy complications, women can have changes in heart structure and function

Hispanic/Latina women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) — conditions marked by high blood pressure during pregnancy — are more likely to have abnormalities in their heart