Topic(s): Stroke Sophia Antipolis, France, 29 October 2016 – The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and its newly created Council on Stroke says World Stroke Day should be a wake-up call for people everywhere. Each year 6.5 million people die from stroke and another 10 million are permanently disabled. “The real tragedy is that most

Topic(s): HypertensionPreventionEnvironmental and Cardiovascular DiseasePublic Health & Health Policy Embargoed: 00.05 hrs (BST) Tuesday 25 October 2016 Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to a greater incidence of high blood pressure, according to the largest study to investigate the effects of both air pollution and traffic noise by following over 41,000 people in five

Topic(s): Acute Cardiac Care Embargo: 16 October 2016 at 08:30 CEST Lisbon, Portugal – 16 October 2016: Twenty percent of emergency department (ED) visits are preventable, of which half are for cardiovascular disease, reveals research presented today at Acute Cardiovascular Care 2016.1 “We face an increasing phenomenon of crowding in emergency departments,” said last author

Topic(s): Myocardial DiseasePrevention Embargo 13 October 2016 at 13:30 CEST Buenos Aires, Argentina 13 October 2016: Levels of smoking are rising in heart attack patients in Argentina, according to a study presented today at the Argentine Congress of Cardiology (SAC 2016). The findings coincide with a 100% increase in affordability in the last decade, which