Beneficial Produce Scripts; Aortic Dissection Deaths Up; New Opioid & Cardiac Arrest
(MedPage Today) -- In people at risk for or having poor cardiometabolic health, produce prescriptions resulted in greater fruit and vegetable consumption and better glycated hemoglobin, blood pressure, and BMI. (Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 6, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Predicting ICU Outcomes; Post-Stroke Brain Stimulation
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 2, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Nurse Suspected of Poisoning; Hospital Mask Mandates Return; Congressman's Cancer Dx
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U.K. police arrested a British nurse over suspicion of poisoning a baby who died last year in the ICU. (People)
3M entered into a $6 billion settlement with the... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 30, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Certain SSRIs May Increase Arrhythmia Risk in Select Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Therapeutic doses of some selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may lead to cardiotoxic concentration levels associated with increased risk of arrhythmia in certain groups of patients, including those 65 and up, according... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
No Aspirin After PCI? Extended P2Y12 Monotherapy? Trials Weigh In
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Two trials from Asia weighed in on reducing components and duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) but with questionable applicability to Western practice.
Both... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Cancer Therapy's Lower-Limb Blood Clots Better Treated With Long Anticoagulation
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- A prolonged course of edoxaban (Savaysa) was more effective for isolated distal deep vein thrombosis in cancer patients, the ONCO DVT randomized trial showed.
By 12 months, symptomatic recurrent venous thromboembolism... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Novel Amyloid Drug Improves Mid-Term Outcomes in ATTR Cardiomyopathy
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Novel anti-amyloid agent acoramidis improved a composite of outcome endpoints in the pivotal ATTRibute-CM trial for transthyretin mediated amyloidosis (ATTR) cardiomyopathy, with suggestion of clinical normalization... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
OCT Angioplasty Win; Congenital Defect Found in Bronny James; Gene Tx for Angina
(MedPage Today) -- Cardiovascular mortality in the U.S. fell substantially from 1968 to 2019, but the pace of decline slowed in the last decade, death certificates suggest. (European Journal of Preventive Cardiology)
The evidence favors continuing... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Case Grows for SGLT2 Inhibitors as Gout Treatment
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with gout and type 2 diabetes treated with SGLT2 inhibitors not only had reduced numbers of gout flares, but also lived longer compared with other such patients receiving other medications, researchers said.
Among nearly... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 28, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Less Atrial Pacing Doesn't Cut Afib in Sinus Node Dysfunction
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Reducing atrial pacing didn't help prevent atrial fibrillation (Afib, or AF) in patients with sinus node dysfunction but did increase risk of fainting, the DANPACE II trial showed.
The proportion of patients who... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 28, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Immune Suppressant Stumbles for Acute Myocarditis in Early Data
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Anti-inflammatory immunosuppressant anakinra (Kineret) held no survival benefit for acute myocarditis, the randomized phase IIb ARAMIS trial showed.
The interleukin-1 receptor antagonist yielded a median 30 days... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 28, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
STEMI Complete Revascularization: No Point in Waiting
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- When it comes to timing the complete revascularization for heart attack patients with multivessel disease, treating multiple vessels in one session in the catheterization lab proved noninferior to staged angioplasty... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 28, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Rush to DOACs Spells Trouble for Frail Warfarin Users
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Best let frail older people who are stable on international normalized ratio (INR)-guided vitamin K antagonist (VKA) management stay on it instead of switching to a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC or NOAC), the... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 28, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Ambulance Routing Might Not Matter After Cardiac Arrest
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Sending resuscitated cardiac arrest patients who weren't clearly having a heart attack to specialty centers rather than the nearest emergency department didn't help outcomes, a U.K. study showed.
For the primary... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 28, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Pulsed Field Ablation Measures Up in Head-to-Head Trial
(MedPage Today) -- AMSTERDAM -- Pulsed field ablation appeared as safe and effective as thermal ablation in treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (Afib) in the first randomized head-to-head trial for the novel technology.
Efficacy failure... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 28, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
