Reserve pulse pressure useful prognostic factor in patients with suspected CAD
Reserve pulse pressure can be used to identify those patients with suspected coronary artery disease but normal exercise myocardial perfusion imaging who are at increased risk for death, a study shows. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 10, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Distinct risk factor profiles for heart failure subtypes
Follow up of the PREVEND cohort supports distinct pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and with reduced ejection fraction. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 8, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Health benefits of walking underestimated
US research shows that people can gain the same health benefits by walking as they can by running, as long as they expend the same amount of energy. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 8, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Calcium channel blockers best for managing hypertension in diabetes
Calcium channel blockers stabilize morning blood pressure variability to a greater extent than other antihypertensive medications in patients with hypertension and Type 2 diabetes, suggest study findings. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 5, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Study sheds doubt on Blalock Taussig shunts for infants
Use of a modified Blalock Taussig shunt for the treatment of biventricular and univentricular infant hearts is associated with significant mortality and morbidity, indicate Swiss study results. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 4, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Unhealthy behaviors in adolescents prompt heart disease fears
Unhealthy behaviors in teenagers may result in a significant increase in cardiovascular diseases in the future, suggest researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 4, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A as a predictor for CV events
Levels of pregnancy-associated plasma protein A may predict risk for a cardiovascular event among individuals presenting with cardiac chest pain, researchers find. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 3, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
CLUE to emergency antihypertensive approach for end-organ damage
Patients admitted to the emergency department with hypertension and suspected end-organ damage reach target systolic blood pressure faster with a nicardipine infusion than a labetalol bolus, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 3, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Pitfall in Friedewald equation for ‘bad’ cholesterol
Using the Friedewald equation to estimate levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol is the least accurate in patients for whom accuracy is most critical, shows the largest analysis to date. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - April 2, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Pump conundrum settled in heart bypass surgery
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting is no better or worse than on-pump surgery, two large randomized trials show. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - March 28, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
ICD switch-off a gray area for clinicians
The deactivation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator should not be done against the wishes of a patient or their family and surrogates, even when continuing the treatment is medically futile, a survey of electrophysiology practitioners suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - March 27, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Chelation therapy on hold for cardiac patients
The findings of the controversial Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy have been published in JAMA. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - March 27, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Patent foramen ovale closure debate still smolders
Two randomized controlled trials in The New England Journal of Medicine fail to prove that closing a patent foramen ovale can reduce risk for recurrent cryptogenic stroke. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - March 25, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Psychologic benefits for relatives witnessing CPR
People given the option to witness the cardiopulmonary resuscitation of close relatives are less likely to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms than those who are not, French research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - March 20, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
BMI linked to disease-specific mortality in very elderly Japanese
Very elderly Japanese individuals should not let their body mass index fall to below 22, warn researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)
Source: MedWire News - Cardiology - March 19, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
