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CABG Improves Survival, Stroke vs PCI in Low-LVEF Diabetes CABG Improves Survival, Stroke vs PCI in Low-LVEF Diabetes
CABG ruled for CV events, stroke, and survival in a propensity-matched observational study. Randomized trial data are thin for patients with both diabetes and poor left ventricular function.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news

Long-term Stroke Rate Higher With CABG vs Stenting Long-term Stroke Rate Higher With CABG vs Stenting
Five-year stroke rates were lower in patients with multivessel or left main coronary artery disease who underwent stenting than in those who had coronary bypass surgery, new research shows.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news

Staged CABG After Endarterectomy Minimizes Risk of MI, StrokeStaged CABG After Endarterectomy Minimizes Risk of MI, Stroke
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) within 24 hours after carotid endarterectomy (CEA) reduces the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 6, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news

Women With Migraines Are More Prone To This Scary Health Condition
This study provides really good quality evidence that migraine in women is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease," said Dr. Rebecca Burch, an instructor in the department of neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, but was not involved in the research. Migraines have a fairly small effect on cardiovascular risk compared with other known risk factors that have a much larger influence on heart disease, such as smoking, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, Burch said. However, because migraines are relatively common, affecting an estimated 1 in 4 American women, this...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Study may bust myth of 'fat and fit' healthy obesity
Conclusion This meta-analysis provides further evidence about the known risk factors for cardiovascular disease and mortality. What this study adds is the indication that people who are metabolically unhealthy regardless of their weight are at increased risk. However, interestingly, no increase in risk was seen for the category of people who are metabolically healthy though overweight. A strength of this meta-analysis is the large sample size. However, the results should be interpreted with caution as: The studies did not use the same criteria for assessing metabolic status. The studies did not use the same criteri...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise Obesity Source Type: news

New heart op could save 'thousands of lives'
Conclusion This was a well-designed study which showed that over the course of two years, the risk of another non-fatal or fatal heart attack is reduced in heart attack patients who have preventive stents inserted in narrowed arteries at the same time as a procedure to insert stents into the blocked coronary artery that caused their heart attack. However, an important point to note is that the study results do not apply to all patients who have had a heart attack. The study only looked at the group of patients who had a specific type of heart attack – a STEMI – and needed an emergency stent placement operation. ...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Genetics/stem cells Source Type: news

Statin therapy prior to CABG surgery may improve outcomes
Patients receiving statin therapy before coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery appear to have a reduced risk of post-surgical mortality, stroke, and atrial fibrillation (irregular or rapid heart rate), according to an article in the October 2013 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. These same benefits from statins could not be demonstrated for patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR). "Heart surgery patients typically have a number of other disorders, so we need to optimize the patient's preoperative condition and help ensure the best possible result," said Elmar W...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Statins Source Type: news

Bypass surgery an “uncommon” cause of memory loss, cognitive decline
Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) offers a new lease on life for thousands of people each year whose hearts aren’t getting the blood they need to work properly. But it has also been blamed for “brain fog,” a loss of memory and thinking skills that follows the procedure in some people. Such brain problems are often called cognitive impairment. The operation itself may not be to blame, according to a review in today’s Annals of Internal Medicine. For the review, a team of researchers—mostly from the U. S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs—synthesized data from 17 clinical trials and four w...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - July 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Howard LeWine, M.D. Tags: Heart Health bypass surgery Coronary artery bypass surgery memory loss Source Type: news

Carrie Fisher's Death Highlights The Reality Of Heart Disease In Women
Carrie Fisher died early Tuesday morning, four days after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles. The actress and author, best known for her iconic role as Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” franchise, was 60 years old.  Experts say that Fisher’s death highlights an important reality about heart disease: It is the leading cause of death among men and women alike in the U.S. While heart disease encompasses many different conditions, a heart attack occurs when coronary arteries become blocked and oxygenated blood can’t reach the heart. About 735,000 Americans have hea...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

EXCEL at 5 Years: PCI, CABG ' Relatively Comparable ' in LM Disease EXCEL at 5 Years: PCI, CABG ' Relatively Comparable ' in LM Disease
Which of PCI or CABG for left main disease better prevented death, MI, or stroke? One prevailed early on, the other after a few years. Overall, they matched. The clinical message has shades of gray.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news