IMN || Cardiology

In utero exposure to dyslipidemia magnifies LDL risk in offspring

Posted on: 06/01/2014 - 15:15

DALLAS – Elevated LDL cholesterol in women before childbirth was associated with a fivefold increased risk of elevated LDL 2 decades later in their young adult offspring in a new analysis from the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

‘JNC 8’ guideline follows convoluted endgame

Posted on: 04/01/2014 - 06:00

UPDATED Jan. 4, 2014 The federally funded program to produce a set of U.S. guidelines for hypertension management, a process more than 5 years in the making, came to an unusual end on...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Genotyping adds little to optimized warfarin dosing

Posted on: 03/01/2014 - 14:20

DALLAS – Genotyping to guide the starting dosage of warfarin treatment showed no added value above tailoring treatment with a panel of clinical features in a randomized, controlled U.S. trial of more...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

New analysis does not link high-potency statins with acute kidney injury

Posted on: 30/12/2013 - 20:30

DALLAS – High-potency statin therapy given post acute coronary syndrome did not raise serum creatinine or cause more risk of acute kidney injury than low-potency statin regimens did in a new analysis...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Mild coronary artery disease is gender blind

Posted on: 30/12/2013 - 19:55

CHICAGO – Men and women may not really be all that different when it comes to mild coronary artery disease. A prospective, multinational registry analysis found that 1.2% of women and 1.1% of men...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Antipsychotics boosted CVD events in elderly

Posted on: 27/12/2013 - 19:15

DALLAS – Elderly patients who started treatment with an antipsychotic drug had a substantially increased risk for a major adverse cardiovascular disease event, especially during the first month on...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Evidence and expertise in writing medical guidelines

Posted on: 26/12/2013 - 18:20

With timing that defies coincidence, the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) and International Society of Hypertension (ISH) posted on Dec. 17 new <link...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

‘JNC 8’ relaxes elderly systolic target below 150 mm Hg

Posted on: 18/12/2013 - 18:25

The group of experts who had constituted the JNC 8 panel, a team assembled in 2008 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to update official U.S. hypertension management guidelines, set the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Thrombosis precautions in IBD not met in two-thirds of high-risk cases

Posted on: 17/12/2013 - 14:15

HOLLYWOOD, FLA. – The relative risk of thromboembolic events is greater in inpatient inflammatory bowel disease patients than in the general population, but prophylactic treatment is still not...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Novel Watchman antistroke device backed as warfarin equivalent

Posted on: 12/12/2013 - 16:55

GAITHERSBURG, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has voted in favor of approving the

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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