CARD || Medical Cardiology

Ustekinumab again linked to cardiovascular events

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 17:05

WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – The anti-interleukin-12/23 biologic agents ustekinumab and briakinumab were associated with a statistically significant 4.23-fold increased risk of major adverse cardiac events in...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Study links number of live births to future cardiac risk

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

The number of children a woman has may affect her future risk of cardiovascular disease – and the mechanism may be subclinical atherosclerosis, data from the <link...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Fruit and vegetable consumption in young women linked to later CVD benefit

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

A high intake of fruit and vegetables during early adulthood was associated with a lower risk of having calcified arterial plaque 20 years later, a benefit that was only evident in women, in the...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Study links number of live births to future cardiac risk

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

The number of children a woman has may affect her future risk of cardiovascular disease – and the mechanism may be subclinical atherosclerosis, data from the <link...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Fruit and vegetable consumption in young women linked to later CVD benefit

Posted on: 28/03/2014 - 12:00

A high intake of fruit and vegetables during early adulthood was associated with a lower risk of having calcified arterial plaque 20 years later, a benefit that was only evident in women, in the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Adding HbA1c doesn’t improve CVD risk assessment

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 20:00

Adding hemoglobin A1c level to traditional cardiovascular risk factors doesn’t improve the prediction of incident cardiovascular disease among middle-age and older adults who don’t have...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

New cholesterol guidelines would add 13 million new statin users

Posted on: 20/03/2014 - 22:20

Strict adherence to the new risk-based American College of Cardiology–American Heart Association guidelines for managing cholesterol would increase the number of adults eligible for statin therapy by...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

New cholesterol guidelines would add 13 million new statin users

Posted on: 20/03/2014 - 22:20

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

HFPEF’s diverse features pose management and trial challenges

Posted on: 08/03/2014 - 06:00

When the highly-anticipated results from the TOPCAT trial reported last November failed to show a statistically significant efficacy benefit from spironolactone treatment in patients with heart...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Colchicine may provide potent cardiac protection

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 20:30

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Evidence from three observational studies suggests colchicine has a strong protective effect against cardiovascular events in gout patients. These data add to mounting evidence...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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