No place to hide!
Long-term exposure to air pollution increases overall mortality irrespective of the pollution level. Read Pedro Marques-Vidal's comment on a recent publication of R. Beelen et al. (The Lancet, 2013).
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Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - April 2, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Exercise training improves HDL quality in CHF patients
Nicolle Kraenkel comments on a study by V. Adams et al. (Circulation Research, 2013), suggesting that in patients with severe CHF, exercise training achieves a "lightening of the burden" of systemic pro-oxidant status and inhibition of nitric oxide generation.
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Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - April 2, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Thursday 8 May, the EACPR will be joining forces with Jump In in Amsterdam.
Each year, EuroPRevent and the EACPR promote prevention through action. The Jump in project’s aim is to encourage sufficient physical activities and healthy diets for students. The goal is to fight future obesity. 80 schools in Amsterdam will participate this year during Europrevent!
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Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - April 2, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Access all the presentations from EuroHeartCare 2014
The ESC Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions has made the slides from all EuroHeartcongress presentations available here.
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Cardiovascular Nursing (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 31, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Poor sleep doubles hospitalisations in heart failure patients
Chronic sleep deprivation previously linked to inflammation and higher stress levels according to research presented during EuroHeartCare 2014; Dr Peter Johansson, first author said: “We know that sleep problems are common among patients with heart failure. But until now there was no data on whether poor sleep persists over time and how that relates to hospitalisations.” Read more
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Cardiovascular Nursing, Heart Failure (HF) (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 31, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Visualising a safe place reduces procedural pain
Visualising a safe place reduces operative pain, according to research presented at EuroHeartCare 2014. Nurses guided patients into a trance and found it helped patients cope with pain and anxiety during ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF). Read more
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Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiovascular Nursing (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 31, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Depression increases heart failure risk by 40%
Reducing stress that triggers depression may improve outlook; Moderate to severe depression increases the risk of heart failure by 40%, a study of nearly 63 000 Norwegians has shown. The findings were presented for the first time at EuroHeartCare 2014. Read more
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Cardiovascular Nursing, Heart Failure (HF) (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 31, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
EuroPRevent 2014 at your fingertips!
Consult the most updated scientific programme, by day, topic or session type, make your own to-do list synchronised with the Scientific Programme and Planner agenda, and more!
NEW this year: the mobile app allows you to ask your questions and vote during the 'Mobile App Interactive Session'!
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 27, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
How to measure microparticles in prevention and rehabilitation
In cardiovascular rehabilitation, microparticle monitoring might support the progress towards “personal” rehabilitation programmes.Cell-derived sub-micron vesicles, the so-called “microparticles” have come into the focus of interest as a new class of circulating mediators. Learn more
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Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 19, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
The ACCOAST trial
Following presentation of the ACCOAST trial at the ESC Congress 2013 two of our members discuss questions raised from the findings. Is time to reconsider pretreatment with P2Y12 receptor inhibitors in NSTE-ACS? Jean-Philippe Collet (FR)
Is upstream DAPT in NSTEACS dead or alive? Leonardo Bolognese (IT)
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Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 17, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Only a small number of symptomatic side effects reported in those taking statins are actually attributable to statins
According to large meta-analysis of prevention trials, At a time when the wider prescription of statins is under renewed public scrutiny, a substantial analysis of placebo-controlled randomised trials of statins has found that only a small minority of side effects reported by those taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs are actually attributable to them. Read more
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 11, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
EACVI webinar on "Risk stratification in asymptomatic aortic valve disease in 2013"
Join our experts Professor Philippe Pibarot and Professor Luc Pièrard for a live webinar on Risk stratification in asymptomatic aortic valve disease in 2013 on 18 March.
Register here
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Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 5, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
The subcutaneous defibrillator: who stands to benefit?
Authors: De Maria E., Olaru A., Cappelli S. If a given patient necessitating implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator has no indications for cardiac resynchronisation, bradycardia support or antitachycardia pacing and provided this patient's condition or previous history would make the absence of leads within the heart and the preservation of central venous circulation preferable, than the newly developed subcutaneous cardioverter defibrillator is a first line indication.
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Arrhythmias, Sudden Cardiac Death and Resuscitation (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 5, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Passive smoking causes irreversible damage to children’s arteries
The thickening of the arteries’ walls associated with being exposed to parents’ smoke, means that these children will be at greater risk of heart attacks and strokes in later life. The researchers from Tasmania, Australia and Finland say that exposure to both parents smoking in childhood adds an extra 3.3 years to the age of blood vessels when the children reach adulthood. Read more
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Outbursts of anger linked to greater risk of heart attacks and strokes
Outbursts of anger may trigger heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular problems in the two hours immediately afterwards, according to the first study to systematically evaluate previous research into the link between the extreme emotion and all cardiovascular outcomes. Read more
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - March 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
