Link Between Psoriasis, Heart Disease Tracks to Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction
(MedPage Today) -- Almost a third of patients with severe psoriasis had echocardiographic evidence of asymptomatic coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), a prospective study showed.
Doppler echocardiography showed that 31.5% of 448 patients... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 20, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Should Surgical AVR for Aortic Regurgitation Happen Earlier in Young Adults?
(MedPage Today) -- Among young adults with aortic regurgitation (AR), those undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR) before they met standard criteria were more likely to achieve good results from the surgery, a study showed.
Postsurgical normalization... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 19, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
FXI Inhibitor Cuts Bleeds in Afib; COAPT Extends to Real World; AI Stroke Triage
(MedPage Today) -- People who were prone to needing dentures tended to also be at higher risk of cardiometabolic disease. (European Journal of Preventive Cardiology)
Early real-world experience at a Dutch lipid clinic suggests smaller LDL cholesterol... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 19, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Direct-to-Consumer Lab Tests Raise Ethical Questions, Researchers Say
(MedPage Today) -- Direct-to-consumer (DTC) laboratory tests -- for the thyroid, hormonal biomarkers, or diabetes and hemoglobin A1c, for example -- often had unclear terms of sale and vague privacy policies, a qualitative study showed.
Of... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Guide to the Coronary Artery Calcium Scan: 2023 Update
(MedPage Today) -- Preventive cardiologists have a wonderful tool for noninvasively identifying plaque (atherosclerosis) in the arteries to the heart: the coronary artery calcium (CAC) scan.
Since 1/3 of Americans die from atherosclerotic cardiovascular... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 17, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
No Avoiding Mitral Valve Implant Obstruction With Preemptive Ablation
(MedPage Today) -- Radiofrequency ablation came up short for preventing left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction, a feared complication of transcatheter mitral valve implantation (TMVI), researchers reported.
In five TMVI candidates considered... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 15, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Stroke Doesn't Have to Lead to Death or Disability
(MedPage Today) -- Imagine having a severe, life-threatening stroke at 5 p.m., being rushed by ambulance to undergo minimally invasive surgery to remove the blood clot from your brain, then walking out of the hospital, symptom-free, the very next... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 15, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Upfront Ezetimibe in ACS; New Watchman LAA Occluder OK'd; Low-Cost FH Genotyping
(MedPage Today) -- Compared with statins alone, upfront dual therapy with a statin and ezetimibe (Zetia) was associated with better survival in acute coronary syndrome, a Polish registry showed. (Journal of the American Heart Association)
What... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 12, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Is Intracerebral Hemorrhage Risk Shared via Blood Transfusion?
(MedPage Today) -- Recipients of red blood cell transfusions from donors who later had multiple intracerebral hemorrhages (ICHs) had a significantly increased risk of spontaneous ICH themselves, an exploratory retrospective cohort study showed... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 12, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Heart Risks Much Higher for Patients With Rare Sleep Disorder
(MedPage Today) -- NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Individuals with idiopathic hypersomnia may face a greater likelihood of heart-related events, a retrospective cohort study suggested.
Compared with matched controls without the rare sleep disorder, patients... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
One PrEP Regimen Linked to Higher Risk of Hypertension, Statin Use Over Another
(MedPage Today) -- Use of tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF) for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was associated with an increased risk of hypertension and the initiation of statin use within 2 years compared with the use of tenofovir disoproxil... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Lorundrostat Stands a Chance Against Obesity-Related Hypertension
(MedPage Today) -- Among selected people with uncontrolled hypertension, blood pressure (BP) could be successfully reduced with a highly selective aldosterone synthase inhibitor, a phase II dose-finding trial found.
In hypertensive patients with... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 10, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Calcium Channel Blockers Again Linked to Glaucoma
(MedPage Today) -- Patients on calcium channel blockers (CCBs) had a higher likelihood of glaucoma than their counterparts, according to a population-based, cross-sectional study.
Examining data on more than 400,000 participants in the U.K. Biobank... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 7, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Common Food Additives Singled Out for Cardiovascular Risk
(MedPage Today) -- Food additive emulsifiers were individually associated with modest increases in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a large French epidemiological cohort, researchers found.
Various types of emulsifiers -- widely used to keep... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 7, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Low-Dose Semaglutide Can Ease Insulin Need in Early T1D, Small Series Shows
(MedPage Today) -- When used very early on in type 1 diabetes, a GLP-1 receptor agonist may help reduce the need for insulin, a small case series suggested.
Ten adults with a new type 1 diabetes diagnosis initially received a 0.125-mg dose of... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 6, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
