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Contemporary Treatment and Outcome of Patients with Ischaemic Lower Limb Amputation: A Focus on Sex Differences
CONCLUSION: Patients undergoing ischaemic LLA still have a poor prognosis marked by high rates of recurrent cardiovascular and limb events resulting in > 50% mortality within two years. The continuous lack of guideline recommended therapies, particularly in women, may be associated with the persisting poor outcome, necessitating urgent further investigation.PMID:37355161 | DOI:10.1016/j.ejvs.2023.06.018
Source: PubMed: Eur J Vasc Endovasc ... - June 24, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Lena Makowski Christiane Engelbertz Jeanette K öppe Patrik Dr öge Thomas Ruhnke Christian G ünster Joachim Ger ß Eva Freisinger Nasser Malyar Holger Reinecke Jannik Feld Source Type: research
7 Myths About Cholesterol, Debunked
You may not recall every lab value from your last physical, but you probably remember one: Your cholesterol level.
If it’s higher than ideal, you’re not alone. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2015 and 2018, almost 12% of U.S. adults ages 20 and up had high total cholesterol, defined as above 240 mg/dL. The type that physicians mostly worry about is LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol, which is one component of that total.
Why do doctors care so much about cholesterol? First, “it predicts risk,” says Dr. Jeffrey Berger, a cardiologist and director of the C...
Source: TIME: Health - June 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine Hobson Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Plain language summary of results from ORION-10 and ORION-11: Two studies to learn how well inclisiran works in people with high cholesterol
Future Cardiol. 2023 Jun 6. doi: 10.2217/fca-2022-0133. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWHAT IS THIS PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY ABOUT?: This is a summary of the article describing the results of the ORION-10 and ORION-11 studies, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 2020. The studies included adult participants with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). ASCVD happens when the blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to other areas of the body are blocked by fatty build-up (plaque) causing a heart attack, stroke, or other problems. High levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (L...
Source: Atherosclerosis - June 7, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kausik K Ray R Scott Wright Source Type: research
Higher Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Was Higher Associated With Cardiovascular Disease Comparing Higher LDL-C in Nine Years Follow Up: Cohort Study
CONCLUSION: In our large population study, higher non-HDL-C levels were associated with CVD than LDL-C levels.PMID:37265846 | PMC:PMC10232221 | DOI:10.12997/jla.2023.12.2.164
Source: Atherosclerosis - June 2, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sangmo Hong Kyungdo Han Jung Hwan Park Sung Hoon Yu Chang Beom Lee Dong Sun Kim Source Type: research
Plasma ANGPTL8 Levels and Risk for Secondary Cardiovascular Events in Japanese Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease Receiving Statin Therapy
CONCLUSIONS: Monitoring ANGPTL8 levels over time might be useful to assess residual risk of cardiovascular secondary events in patients with cardiovascular disease undergoing statin therapy.PMID:37259862 | DOI:10.1161/ATVBAHA.122.318880
Source: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology - June 1, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jun Morinaga Kosuke Kashiwabara Daisuke Torigoe Yusuke Okadome Kenichi Aizawa Kohei Uemura Ai Kurashima Eiji Matsunaga Hirotaka Fukami Haruki Horiguchi Michio Sato Taichi Sugizaki Keishi Miyata Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu Masashi Mukoyama Katsumi Miyauchi Seiji Ho Source Type: research
What to Know About High Triglycerides
Discussions about heart health often center around blood pressure and cholesterol, with factors like poor sleep, smoking, family history of heart disease, and chronic stress thrown in. However, there’s one variable that doesn’t get covered as often, even though it can be an important indicator of cardiovascular risk: triglycerides.
“We don’t really talk about triglycerides very much, especially compared to cholesterol, but they’re actually an essential part of understanding heart health,” says Dr. Adriana Quinones-Camacho, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Health in New York. “For some...
Source: TIME: Health - May 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Efficacy and safety of the use of alirocumab in real clinical practice
CONCLUSION: The inclusion of alirocumab in the treatment regimen contributed to the stable course of atherosclerosis-associated diseases, the achievement of LDL cholesterol targets in 77.8% of patients, was not accompanied by side effects during 2.5 years therapy.PMID:37167185 | DOI:10.26442/00403660.2022.12.201991
Source: Atherosclerosis - May 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: V A Korneva T Y Kuznetsova I S Scopets N N Vezikova Source Type: research
