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Native valve disease in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation on warfarin or rivaroxaban
Conclusions We found that patients with AF and AS on oral anticoagulants may have distinctly different efficacy and safety outcomes than patients with MR or AR or no SVD. Trial registration number NCT00403767; Post-results.
Source: Heart - June 9, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Breithardt, G., Baumgartner, H., Berkowitz, S. D., Hellkamp, A. S., Piccini, J. P., Lokhnygina, Y., Halperin, J. L., Singer, D. E., Hankey, G. J., Hacke, W., Becker, R. C., Nessel, C. C., Mahaffey, K. W., Califf, R. M., Fox, K. A. A., Patel, M. R., for th Tags: Open access, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Interventional cardiology, Aortic valve disease, Mitral valve disease Valvular heart disease Source Type: research

Posterior Circulation Ischemia or Occlusion in Five Adults With Failing Fontan Circulation
Conclusions In adults with failing Fontan circulation there is a potential for neurologic complications as a result of venous congestion with elevated central venous pressures, and aberrant posterior circulation. The patient’s history and brain imaging may be used to identify at-risk patients and to tailor perioperative management during Fontan conversion or heart transplantation to mitigate the risk for brainstem ischemia.
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - May 19, 2016 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Source Type: research

Help! My daughter has become a vegetarian!
Q: My daughter has decided to follow a vegetarian diet. Do I need to worry about protein deficiency? ~ Worried Mom This is one of the most common questions that pediatricians are asked. A vegetarian diet, and especially one that includes fish, can be a very healthy option. Learn more about nutrition for vegetarians and ways your family can shift to a vegetarian diet. Q: Does my child need to eat meat to get enough protein? Complete nutrition, including adequate protein, can easily be obtained without eating meat. Meat is completely unnecessary if a diet is high in fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, fish, whole grains, eggs...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - April 6, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Carolyn Sax Tags: Parenting Teen Health Dr. Carolyn Sax vegetarian Source Type: news

2016 Moon Shot for Cancer: Focus on Prevention
It is now 2016, and Americans hope for a brighter, healthier new year. Are Americans healthier today than they were last year or the year before? Will there be fewer people diagnosed with cancer? According to the American Cancer Society, it is projected that in 2016 there will be 1,685,210 new cancer cases and 595,690 deaths due to cancer. This is an increase over previous years. While it is true that the death rate for several cancers has decreased (due mostly to better screening and earlier diagnosis), it is also true that several cancers are on the rise, including cancers of the thyroid, liver, pancreas, kidney, small i...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Outcomes of ventricular assist device implantation in children and young adults: the Melbourne experience
ConclusionsChildren requiring pre‐transplant VAD support have a higher mortality and morbidity compared with young adults. Survival after heart transplantation those supported with VADs was similar to patients of similar age who did not require pre‐transplant support.
Source: ANZ Journal of Surgery - November 27, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: William Y. Shi, Silvana F. Marasco, Pankaj Saxena, Yves d'Udekem, Matthew S. Yong, Sergei Mitnovetski, Christian P. Brizard, David C. McGiffin, Robert G. Weintraub, Igor E. Konstantinov Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Disrupting Today's Healthcare System
This week in San Diego, Singularity University is holding its Exponential Medicine Conference, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today's broken healthcare system. Healthcare today is reactive, retrospective, bureaucratic and expensive. It's sick care, not healthcare. This blog is about why the $3 trillion healthcare system is broken and how we are going to fix it. First, the Bad News: Doctors spend $210 billion per year on procedures that aren’t based on patient need, but fear of liability. Americans spend, on average, $8,915 per person on healthcare – more than any other count...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The type of fat you eat matters!
By: JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, and Shari S. Bassuk, ScD Contributing Editors, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School If you saw last month’s news headlines declaring that saturated fat is no longer deemed harmful to your heart, you may be (understandably!) confused. After all, for years, clinicians and scientists have recommended reducing saturated fat for heart health. Is it time to rethink this advice? Hardly. Here’s the deal. The research that sparked the recent news splash was an analysis by Canadian researchers of up to a dozen long-term observational studies of diet that included a total of 90,000...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - September 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Contributing Editors Tags: Health Healthy Eating Fats saturated fats unsaturated fats Source Type: news

Cardiovascular Disease Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Diabetes: Prediction Models Using Artificial Neural Networks and Logistic Regression
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is not only a major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD); it also worsens CHD prognosis. The study's purpose was to investigate comparative effectiveness of two major CHD treatment procedures - coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) - in a population of CHD patients with DM (CHD-DM), using an artificial intelligence tool - artificial neural networks (ANN) - and a traditional multivariable logistic regression (MLR).
Source: Annals of Epidemiology - August 21, 2015 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Alexander V. Sergeev, Gary R. Weckman Tags: Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke Source Type: research

How to define valvular atrial fibrillation?
Abstract Atrial fibrillation (AF) confers a substantial risk of stroke. Recent trials comparing vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) with non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) in AF were performed among patients with so-called "non-valvular" AF. The distinction between "valvular" and "non-valvular" AF remains a matter of debate. Currently, "valvular AF" refers to patients with mitral stenosis or artificial heart valves (and valve repair in North American guidelines only), and should be treated with VKAs. Valvular heart diseases, such as mitral regurgitation, aortic stenosis (AS) and aortic insufficiency, do...
Source: Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases - July 13, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Fauchier L, Philippart R, Clementy N, Bourguignon T, Angoulvant D, Ivanes F, Babuty D, Bernard A Tags: Arch Cardiovasc Dis Source Type: research

Has Brazil found the way to better health care?
Under Brazil’s family health program, when a woman learns that she is pregnant, she contacts her local community health agent, who often is a neighbor. Typically, the agent visits her home to arrange an appointment with the neighborhood’s family health team, and the woman visits the health center for an assessment by a nurse assistant and a physician. During the pregnancy, if she misses a prenatal care appointment, the agent checks in on her at home and helps her reschedule her visit. Any prenatal medications she needs are provided free of charge. Brazil — home to the world’s fifth-largest population and seventh-l...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 5, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Pre-existing diabetes and risks of morbidity and mortality after liver transplantation: A nationwide database study in an Asian population.
CONCLUSION: DM is associated with elevated risk of 90-day post-LTx. Moreover, DM patients with coexisting renal manifestations exhibited an increased postoperative risk of mortality after LTx. PMID: 26048000 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine - June 2, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tsai MS, Wang YC, Wang HH, Lee PH, Jeng LB, Kao CH Tags: Eur J Intern Med Source Type: research

Framingham score, renal dysfunction, and cardiovascular risk in liver transplant patients
Cardiovascular (CV) events represent major impediments to the long‐term survival of liver transplantation (LT) patients. The aim of this study was to assess whether the Framingham risk score (FRS) at transplantation can predict the development of post‐LT cardiovascular events (CVEs). Patients transplanted between 2006 and 2008 were included. Baseline features, CV risk factors, and CVEs occurring after LT (ischemic heart disease, stroke, heart failure, de novo arrhythmias, and peripheral arterial disease) were recorded. In total, 250 patients (69.6% men) with a median age of 56 years (range, 18‐68 years) were included...
Source: Liver Transplantation - May 26, 2015 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tommaso Di Maira, Angel Rubin, Lorena Puchades, Victoria Aguilera, Carmen Vinaixa, Maria Garcia, Nicola De Maria, Erica Villa, Rafael Lopez‐Andujar, Fernando San Juan, Eva Montalva, Judith Perez, Martin Prieto, Marina Berenguer Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

“Framingham score, renal dysfunction and cardiovascular risk in liver transplant patients”
Conclusions: In our series, the FRS and eGFR at LT were able to predict the development of post‐LT CV events and poor outcome. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Liver Transplantation - March 30, 2015 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tommaso Di Maira, Angel Rubin, Lorena Puchades, Victoria Aguilera, Carmen Vinaixa, Maria Garcia, Nicola De Maria, Erica Villa, Rafael Lopez‐Andujar, Fernando San Juan, Eva Montalva, Judith Perez, Martin Prieto, Marina Berenguer Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Epigenetic regulation of smooth muscle cell plasticity
This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Stress as a fundamental theme in cell plasticity.
Source: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) Gene Regulatory Mechanisms - March 19, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research