Category: cardiovascular disease

  • BMC Medicine at ESC Congress 2019

    BMC Medicine at ESC Congress 2019

    Alessandro Recchioni Outcome disparities between rich and poor Professor Annika Rosengren from the University of Gothenburg presented a talk focusing on acute coronary syndromes. She argued that no study so far has used consistent methods to compare the incidence of cardiovascular disorders (CVD) by socioeconomic status. People with low education tend to show consistently higher…

  • Geomagnetic Disturbances and Cardiovascular Mortality Risk

    Geomagnetic Disturbances and Cardiovascular Mortality Risk

    © AndreAnita / Getty Images / iStock Daily geomagnetic disturbances, or geomagnetic storms, are temporary distortions in the Earth’s magnetic field caused by solar wind shock waves that strike the magnetic field hours after a solar event. These geomagnetic storms are the cause of the aurora at the earth’s poles, and have been found to…