Global Scans · Heart · Weekly Summary

• [New] South Carolina will purchase standards-based RPM equipment and monitoring infrastructure for diabetes, hypertension, COPD, and heart disease patients. Bipartisan Policy Center
• [New] WHO highlights rising youth tobacco and e-cigarette use, emphasizing the risks of cancer, heart disease, stroke, COPD, and other serious illnesses. Bankersadda
• [New] Wegovy offers adults with obesity significant weight loss, along with diet and exercise, and is FDA-approved to lower the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with obesity with known heart disease - making Wegovy pill truly distinct. BioSpace
• [New] ASSIGN is a risk score, which estimates the 10-year percentage risk of developing cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease, stroke, and transient ischaemic attack) for people in Scotland who do not currently have a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. SIGN
• [New] The great challenge of the 21st century will not only be managing migratory flows or processing residence permits but preventing the heart of Europe from becoming a puzzle of pieces that no longer fit. DigitalShield
• [New] Acting now (through better prevention and management) could avert up to half of all heart attacks, strokes, cancers and kidney failures, reducing national health care spending by $1 to $1.5 trillion annually. Twin Cities
• The first-in-human clinical trial of a new investigational genetic therapy that aims to lower cholesterol in people at increased risk of cardiovascular disease will take place at the Victorian Heart Hospital and the Victorian Heart Institute. Pulse+IT
• In 2026, kidney experts highlighted projections suggesting that chronic kidney disease deaths could keep rising in the decades ahead, even as deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease are expected to fall sharply. ScienceDaily
• Several medications introduced over the past five years can slow kidney disease and lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, and heart failure. ScienceDaily
• Impaired kidney function was a major risk factor for heart disease, contributing to about 12% of global cardiovascular deaths. ScienceDaily
• By radically expanding access to GLP-1s, we could prevent millions of new diabetes diagnoses by 2035, spare hundreds of thousands of families the trauma of sudden heart attacks, and save tens of billions in treatment costs. / USA IFTF
• Cardiac implants are expected to hold 50.0% share in 2026 because cardiac rhythm management and heart support procedures carry high clinical urgency. FactMr
• Over the 8.0-year follow-up period, 2034 major adverse cardiovascular events occurred, comprising 932 myocardial infarctions, 584 strokes, and 518 heart failure events. Plant Based Health Professionals UK

Last updated: 21 June 2026