Association between depressive symptoms and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a Swedish population-based cohort study

CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence linking depressive symptoms to ASCVD and premature ASCVD in a Swedish population. The findings underscore the need to consider the effects of depressive symptoms as well as potential prevention strategies for depressive symptoms in regard to cardiovascular diseases. Future research should explore whether early identification and treatment of depressive symptoms can mitigate ASCVD risk and improve long-term cardiovascular outcomes.

Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Plastic Problem

People walk into stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s believing they are making safer, healthier choices.
The lighting feels softer. The signs talk about wellness, sustainability, clean ingredients, natural living, organic sourcing, and environmental responsibility. The branding communicates trust before customers even place a single item into their carts.
Consumers pay premium prices because they believe these stores represent something fundamentally healthier than conventional grocery chains.
But once you begin looking closely, another reality becomes difficult to ignore.
Plastic is everywhere.

Associations between the planetary health diet index and multiple long-term conditions among women and men: A prospective cohort study

CONCLUSIONS: Greater adherence to the planetary health diet is associated with a lower risk of MLTC. These findings support dietary policies that promote sustainable dietary patterns, consistent with the EAT-Lancet recommendations, to reduce disease burden and improve population health.

Cancer and heart failure: prevalence, incidence, and prognosis in Scotland

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with HFexp have a slightly higher risk of cancer overall, but this may vary according to cancer type. Patients with both cancer and HFexp have a poor prognosis with a similar proportion of deaths attributed to cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Associations of psychosocial factors with cardiovascular health in aging: insights from the Inlife-Aging Project

Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) provides a multidimensional framework to assess cardiovascular health (CVH) in aging populations. The objective of this study was to describe LE8 component scores and their variation by age, sex, and psychosocial factors in middle-aged and older adults from Cádiz, Spain. Cross-sectional data were analyzed from 495 adults aged 50-79 years (59.4% women; 34.7% ≥ 65 years). LE8 scores were calculated following American Heart Association guidelines. Group comparisons used…

Incidence, risk factors, and cardiovascular impact of hypertension in people with HIV: a secondary analysis of the REPRIEVE trial

BACKGROUND: People living with HIV have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but data on the development and consequences of hypertension remain limited. Using data from REPRIEVE, a global randomised trial of pitavastatin for primary cardiovascular prevention among people with HIV, we evaluated whether pitavastatin reduces the incidence of hypertension among participants without hypertension at baseline and whether incident hypertension is associated with subsequent major adverse…

The Severity of COVID-19 Is Associated with Greater Impairment of Cardiac Autonomic Modulation-Physical Training as a Countermeasure

Background: COVID-19 has been associated with persistent impairments in autonomic modulation of heart rate variability (HRV). However, whether disease severity during the acute phase influences the magnitude of these impairments remains insufficiently explored. In turn, aerobic physical training (APT) has been proposed as a countermeasure to autonomic dysfunction of HRV in different conditions, although its effects in individuals with COVID-19 are not yet well established. To address these gaps,…

Racial disparity in microvascular function among non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of mortality in men with prostate cancer (PC), with non-Hispanic Black (NHB) men experiencing disproportionately higher CVD-related mortality compared to non-Hispanic White (NHW) men. Vascular endothelial dysfunction precedes overt CVD; however, the mechanisms underlying racial disparities in CVD among men with PC remain unclear. This study tested the hypothesis that NHB men with PC would exhibit impaired vascular health compared to NHW men….