The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is warning medical professionals of fraudulent letters and calls where scammers pose as DEA personnel and falsely claim individuals are under investigation to ...

Increasing access to AEDs has been a priority issue for several ACC State Chapters, guiding their advocacy efforts throughout the 2025 state legislative sessions. In the past year, more than 20 states ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) remains of utmost clinical importance; it is positioned in clinical trials as a treatment target and is emphasized in worldwide guidelines as the primary ...

The following are key points to remember from this state-of-the-art review on spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD): SCAD causes an acute coronary event related to compression of the true ...