The ACC is currently accepting nominations for the ACC Distinguished Excellence in Cardiovascular Health Care Quality award, presented annually during ACC Quality Summit to a nonphysician member whose ...

Connect with employers in cardiology at ACC's Virtual Career Fair. Join us on Thursday, Sept. 17 from 5 to 8 p.m. ET to explore employers' virtual booths, chat one-on-one with recruiters and learn ...

Truncating LMNA variants are associated with worse arrhythmic outcomes regardless of variant location, whereas missense variants affecting the tail domain and located in exons 7-12 have better ...

The 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol was a welcome update from the 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular ...

Introduction Standard lipid testing, represented by total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides, is a ...

Contact: Olivia Walther, owalther@acc.org, WASHINGTON (Dec 11, 2023) - A world without cardiovascular disease (CVD) is possible, yet millions of lives are lost prematurely to heart disease each year, ...

The following are key perspectives from this Special Report on the new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans: In the United States, an estimated $117 billion in annual healthcare costs and about ...

Lipoprotein (a) (Lp [a]) is a low-density lipoprotein–like molecule with an apolipoprotein (b) moiety that is covalently attached to apolipoprotein (a) (Apo [a]), a plasminogen-like protein that ...

More Than Skin Color: Ethnicity-Specific BMI Cutoffs For Obesity Based on Type 2 Diabetes Risk in England ...

Chest pain is one of the most common reasons that people seek medical care. This guideline was developed for the evaluation of acute or stable chest pain in outpatient and emergency department ...

Contact: Dana Kauffman, dkauffman@acc.org, 202-375-6294 WASHINGTON (Dec 09, 2020) - The number of people dying from cardiovascular disease (CVD) is steadily rising, including one-third of all deaths ...

Potential Cardiometabolic Risks of VLCDs/KDs Increased LDL-cholesterol Elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels have been observed in studies of VLCDs and KDs. Mechanisms include ...