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Providing patients with their global coronary heart disease risk appears to improve the accuracy of their risk perception, and repeating risk information improves outcomes slightly, according to a review of 20 studies.
African American women have much higher odds of developing peripartum cardiomyopathy than non-African Americans, a new US study shows; the findings illustrate that race is by far the largest risk factor for this disease, say the researchers.
Two doctors from Mozambique are calling for concerted efforts to foster multidisciplinary research into neglected cardiovascular diseases that predominantly occur in Africa. These include newly emerging cardiac manifestations of infectious diseases, say the authors.
Zero coronary calcification does not exclude obstructive stenosis or the need for revascularization in patients referred for coronary angiography, according to a new substudy of the CORE 64 study.
UPDATED WITH COMMENTARY // A link between gout and AMI has been previously documented in men: now a new cohort study suggests gout may be even more important as a comorbidity in women.
Results of a large international study confirm that adherence to doctor's advice on diet, exercise, and smoking after an acute coronary syndrome can substantially lower the risk of recurrent cardiovascular adverse events within six months.
Non-procedure-related clinical issues, such as diabetes or device-related infection, are a major cause of poor procedural and clinical outcomes; still, the overall success rate is high, and complication rate is very low, suggests a multicenter experience of >1400 cases.
The negative results, according to researchers, highlight the need for more research to develop medications targeted specifically at reducing abdominal aortic aneurysm growth.
In fact, the researchers showed that greater religiosity was associated with obesity. At the present time, however, it is unknown whether the obese are more likely to seek out religion and spirituality or if these activities lead to obesity.
Easily added to any other tests performed, a positive finding suggests the patient is susceptible to potentially fatal ventricular arrhythmias, according to researchers.
According to news reports, Christ Hospital has now settled with the feds in a lawsuit alleging that cardiologists were allotted time in an outpatient testing unit based on the number of CABG procedures or cath-lab revenues they or their group generated the previous year.
A study comparing cardiovascular outcomes at the "best hospitals," according to two popular hospital ranking systems, shows that the systems do identify high-quality hospitals, but not all of them.
In the largest series of Brugada-syndrome patients studied to date, researchers have discovered that arrhythmic event rates appear to be low for asymptomatic patients. The decision as to whether or not to implant an ICD in such patients therefore requires some consideration, say the authors.
The number of deaths predicted would be half as high, if the US population met goals set out 10 years ago in the Healthy People 2010 report, researchers say. Obesity and diabetes have proved to be the major obstacles.
Low-risk hypertensive patients taking a combination of diuretics and calcium-channel blockers had a higher risk of MI than users of other common two-drug BP-lowering regimens in a new case-control study. The authors say a large clinical trial is needed to examine the best options for second-line therapy; others disagree.
Androgen-deprivation therapy is a "mainstay" in prostate-cancer treatment, but a possible link between certain hormone therapies and cardiovascular events has moved the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, and American Urological Association to issue a joint statement.
Results from a new meta-analysis showed that CT has better sensitivity and specificity than MRI, leading researchers to conclude that it is more advantageous for detecting and ruling out clinically relevant coronary stenoses.
More than 15 million people in the US alone take herbal remedies and/or vitamins at doses that may be interacting with their cardiovascular medications, potentially putting them at risk.
Tapering off clopidogrel treatment after the implantation of a drug-eluting stent does not result in lower platelet-aggregation values than those seen after the antiplatelet medication is abruptly stopped.
Diclofenac does not reduce pericardial effusions, according to the POPE study. This should signal the end of routine use of NSAIDs in this indication, comments an expert.
In a study of 4586 patients with severe degenerative mitral regurgitation, even mild heart-failure symptoms are associated with decline in cardiac function, suggesting that early valve surgery will yield better long-term outcomes than surgery after symptoms become manifest.