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7 COMMENTS - May 16, 2013 09:30 EDT
Earlier this week, the Institute of Medicine stirred up controversy when it stated the data are insufficient to recommend lowering sodium levels beyond 2300 mg per day. The AHA came out against the IOM report, but hypertension experts heartwire spoke with say the recommendations are right on the money.
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3 COMMENTS - May 15, 2013 17:15 EDT
New data from real-life experience of dabigatran for stroke prevention in AF shows that it is often used outside prescribing recommendations, and the risk of both thromboembolism and bleeding may be raised in patients switched from warfarin.
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May 15, 2013 16:15 EDT
Applying only to primary-prevention patients with no pacing indications, an analysis suggests that more expensive dual-chamber implantable defibrillators, compared with single-chamber devices, pose a higher complication risk without any clinical advantage; yet they seem to be the ICD of choice for such patients, at least in the US.
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3 COMMENTS - May 14, 2013 14:00 EDT
Hormone therapy given to transsexuals during gender reassignment appears to be associated with a greater likelihood of cardiovascular disease in men who subsequently become women.

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May 08, 2013 17:00 EDT
The GISSI group's impressive, collaborative study just published in NEJM puts to bed any lingering theory stipulating a positive effect of fish oils to prevent heart disease in patients who have not had an MI and do not have HF.
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