HOSP || Cardiovascular Disease

VIDEO: GERD may boost increase heart attack risk

Posted on: 08/05/2014 - 16:45

CHICAGO – Gastroesophageal reflux disease may constitute a heretofore unrecognized risk factor for coronary heart disease. In a nationwide case-control study of prodigious proportions,...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
Type: News Item

Six factors predict 1-year survival after TAVR

Posted on: 02/05/2014 - 19:45

WASHINGTON – Patient gender was the only factor that significantly affected stroke risk during the first year following transcatheter aortic valve replacement, according to an analysis of data from...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

CDC: Policy changes could prevent 100,000 deaths a year

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 19:30

About one-third of heart disease deaths and one-fifth of cancer deaths could be prevented if overall U.S. death rates were the same as those in the states with the lowest rates, the Centers for...

Field of Interest: Oncology
Type: News Item

HS cardiac troponin T shows MI rule-out potential

Posted on: 29/04/2014 - 22:30

WASHINGTON – Patients presenting with chest pain with a negative ECG and an undetectable blood level of cardiac troponin T on a high-sensitivity assay had virtually no risk of a myocardial infarction...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

Bivalirudin called safe and effective in HIT

Posted on: 21/04/2014 - 20:45

WASHINGTON – Bivalirudin is an attractive off-label option for the treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, Dr. Lee Joseph said at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology....

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

A fib–associated stroke jumped 42% in 2000s

Posted on: 21/04/2014 - 19:57

WASHINGTON – A third more Americans were hospitalized for ischemic stroke in 2010 than 7 years before, and the incidence of stroke associated with atrial fibrillation grew even more sharply, up by...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

ACC/AHA cardiovascular risk equations get a thumbs-up

Posted on: 14/04/2014 - 14:15

WASHINGTON – The controversial cardiovascular risk estimator introduced in the current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association risk-assessment guidelines demonstrated "moderate...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

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