Epidemiological trends of acute coronary syndrome in Shimla district of the hilly state of Northern India: Six-year data from the prospective Himachal Pradesh acute coronary syndrome registry
Publication date: Available online 5 February 2020Source: Indian Heart JournalAuthor(s): Prakash Chand Negi, Kunal Mahajan, Rajeev Merwaha, Sanjeev Asotra, Rajesh Sharma (Source: Indian Heart Journal)
Source: Indian Heart Journal - March 8, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Response to letter by Visaria et al regarding our article, ‘Standardizing hypertension management in a primary care setting in India through a protocol based model.’
Publication date: Available online 25 February 2020Source: Indian Heart JournalAuthor(s): Priyanka Satish, Aditya Khetan, Shyamsundar Raithatha, Punam Bhende, Richard Josephson (Source: Indian Heart Journal)
Source: Indian Heart Journal - February 26, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Cardiac changes in children hospitalized with severe acute malnutrition: A prospective study at tertiary care center of northern India
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2020Source: Indian Heart JournalAuthor(s): Dharmendra Jain, Sunil Kumar Rao, Dhilip Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Bhupendra Kumar SihagAbstractSevere acute malnutrition (SAM) may affect cardiac structure and function. Cardiac changes in sick children with SAM have received little attention in the literature. Children aged 6–60 months with SAM were cases, and age and sex matched children were controls. Cardiac biomarker levels were measured by the quantitative the Enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method, and echocardiography was used to assess cardiac changes in all children....
Source: Indian Heart Journal - February 21, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Investigation of short-term prognosis of fragmented QRS complexes in patients with acute myocardial infarction in two groups that received invasive and fibrinolytic therapy
ConclusionThe final results of this study showed that there was no significant difference between the four study groups and arrhythmia status. Therefore, f-QRS was not introduced as an independent predictor of arrhythmia in patients with acute MI. (Source: Indian Heart Journal)
Source: Indian Heart Journal - February 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
A critical analysis of the non-inferiority design of TALENT trial
Publication date: Available online 14 February 2020Source: Indian Heart JournalAuthor(s): S. Saha, P. Kerkar, N.J. GogtayAbstractIn recent years, regulatory approval of stents has been based on studies that have a non-inferiority design, which has its own inherent complexities. We critically appraise in this paper, the TALENT trial which established the non-inferiority of Indian manufactured Supraflex stent (a third generation, sirolimus-eluting stent with an ultra-thin strut thickness) compared to the Xience stent – (an internationally available,everolimus-eluting stent with a thicker strut) for a device-oriented compos...
Source: Indian Heart Journal - February 15, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
