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CPAP improves resistant hypertension in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

Posted on: 10/12/2013 - 21:00

For patients who have resistant hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea, 3 months of treatment with continuous positive airway pressure significantly reduces mean and diastolic blood pressure and...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Statin in childhood reduces CHD risk in familial hypercholesterolemia

Posted on: 10/12/2013 - 20:25

DALLAS – Roughly 10 years after going on statin therapy as children or adolescents, a group of Dutch patients with familial hypercholesterolemia already has a significantly lower cardiovascular event...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Statin reduces MI risk in ischemic heart failure

Posted on: 09/12/2013 - 21:25

DALLAS – Rosuvastatin appears to reduce the risk of acute myocardial infarction in patients with ischemic heart failure, according to a meta-analysis of two landmark statin trials. This finding is...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Smoking cessation agents don’t raise serious CVD risks

Posted on: 09/12/2013 - 21:00

The three smoking cessation agents bupropion, varenicline, and nicotine replacement therapy did not raise the risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events in a network meta-analysis of 63 randomized...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Body fat and cardiovascular risk: Location, location, location!

Posted on: 09/12/2013 - 15:05

DALLAS – It’s not obesity per se that affects cardiovascular risk, it’s where that excess body fat is stored, according to the results of a novel adipose tissue–imaging study. Excess visceral...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Energy drinks amp up heart contractility

Posted on: 03/12/2013 - 18:25

CHICAGO – Consumption of an energy drink containing caffeine and taurine slightly, but significantly, altered left ventricular contractility in healthy volunteers, while consuming the same amount of...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Analysis: No such thing as ‘benign’ obesity

Posted on: 02/12/2013 - 22:00

"Metabolically healthy" overweight and obese patients may carry the same short-term risk as normal-weight patients for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events, but their weight puts...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Abrupt increase noted in LVAD thrombosis

Posted on: 02/12/2013 - 18:00

An abrupt and unexpected increase in pump thrombosis has occurred since March 2011 in patients with advanced heart failure who received the HeartMate II left ventricular assist device, according to a...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Chelation plus vitamins halved cardiovascular events in diabetics

Posted on: 26/11/2013 - 16:45

DALLAS – An EDTA-based chelation regimen for secondary prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with a history of myocardial infarction got a boost from a new TACT trial analysis showing...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Chest pain traits didn’t identify MI in women

Posted on: 25/11/2013 - 21:20

The telltale traits of acute myocardial infarction–associated chest pain may differ in women and men, but they aren’t diagnostically telling enough to determine which women with chest pain are having...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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