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A moderately restricted carbohydrate diet (MRCD) appears to yield favourable effects on several cardiometabolic risk factors, including weight and serum triglyceride, in women with metabolic syndrome (MetS), according to a study.

A treat-to-target low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) strategy of 50–70 mg/dL appears to be comparable to a high-intensity statin therapy in terms of preventing major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease, according to a study.

Greater carotid-femoral (CF) pulse-wave velocity (PWV) at baseline appears predictive of a smaller decrease in systolic ambulatory blood pressure (BP) following renal sympathetic denervation (RDN), a prospective, single-arm pilot study has shown.

Several methods of local arterial stiffness calculation produce generally the same results, reports a study. This suggests that the variety of these calculations do not lead to inconsistent findings.