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(MedPage Today) -- Although women suffer peripheral arterial disease in rates at least as high as men, data exploring gender-specific differences in presentation, testing, and treatment are lacking, according a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

Parents and grandparents can play a unique role in reversing obesity by encouraging healthy lifestyle changes in overweight children, suggests the American Heart Association.

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ORLANDO (MedPage Today) -- The notion of experiencing a shock from an implantable-cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) during sex is enough to hamper performance in the bedroom among men with congenital heart disease, according to a study presented here at the American Heart Association meeting.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Just 30 percent the nation's state police agencies reported that they equip their vehicles with automated external defibrillators, and of those, nearly 60 percent of said only a minority of their fleet have the lifesaving devices on board, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that was presented today at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions (Abstract #10721).

(Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation) Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is consistent with survival to normal life expectancy, including particularly advanced age into the tenth decade of life, with demise ultimately largely unrelated to this disease, according to a study being presented Nov. 13 at the American Heart Association scientific sessions in Orlando, Fla.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Even members of the lay public who have received CPR training are confused about how to perform the lifesaving skill and say they don't have confidence in their ability to do it properly, according to a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will be presented today at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions.

(MedPage Today) -- New guidelines, the result of a first-time collaboration between the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, stress a multidisciplinary approach to planning interventions for patients with coronary artery disease.

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