Allergies and the Heart; Tai Chi After Stroke; Viagra for Congenital Heart Disease?

Study finds that people with allergies and asthma were more likely to have high blood pressure and coronary heart disease, the American College of Cardiology announced.

The American Heart Association reviews the cardiovascular manifestations and complications of COVID-19 in children and young adults. (Circulation)

Stroke survivors benefited from modified sitting Tai Chi exercises as part of their rehabilitation, a small randomized trial found. (Stroke)

Postmenopausal women using hormone therapy showed a stronger link between elevated lipoprotein(a) and coronary heart disease. (JAMA Cardiology)

A TTR gene variant, more prevalent in Black people, was tied to an increased risk of heart failure. (JAMA)

Among implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy, substrate ablation was better for clinical outcomes than antiarrhythmic drugs alone, according to the SURVIVE-VT trial. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)

Can someone with a left ventricular assist device have a good quality of life if 1 in 5 days is spent receiving healthcare? (JACC: Heart Failure)

Meta-analysis supports a clinical benefit to SGLT2 inhibitors in heart failure, regardless of diabetes. (Annals of Internal Medicine)

Poorer countries show particularly low use of guideline-directed medical therapy for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. (European Heart Journal)

FDA granted 510(k) clearance to the VoqX stethoscope that picks up low-frequency infrasound, according to device maker Sanolla.

Also cleared by the FDA was Fitbit’s atrial fibrillation-detecting photoplethysmography algorithm. (TechCrunch)

Tips on lifestyle changes and medications that can ease heart symptoms in people recovering from COVID-19. (New York Times)

A pooling of international databases continues to suggest a low incidence of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination. (The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)

Implanting a spinal cord stimulation system helped with the orthostatic hypotension of a patient suffering from multiple-system atrophy. (New England Journal of Medicine)

Preclinical data suggest sildenafil (Viagra) and tauroursodeoxycholic acid to be promising therapies for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a deadly congenital heart disease. (Cell Stem Cell)