The American Heart Association updated its “Life’s Simple 7” measurement tool for cardiovascular health to “Life’s Essential 8,” which now includes sleep health metrics.
Other changes include metrics for how diet and blood sugar are calculated, replacing cigarette smoking with nicotine exposure to capture vaping, and replacing total cholesterol with non-HDL cholesterol. It was the top story in cardiology last week.
Another top story was on a presentation from the Heart in Diabetes CME conference about how coronary artery calcium scoring can be useful in