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Association between urinary cadmium levels and prevalence of coronary artery disease: NHANES cross-sectional study (2009–2018)

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Weighted logistic regression was employed to elucidate the association between Cd-U and the likelihood of CHD. We investigated the link of Cd-U exposure to the prevalence of CHD using limited cubic spline models to analyze the exposure-dose relationship.

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What makes a T-wave Hyperacute? And: 30 Examples of Hyperacute T-waves, 10 in each of 3 myocardial territories.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

In Figure-1 is the ECG from the August 26, 2009 post in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog ( this being one of the 10 Cases of Inferior HATWs that Dr. Smith links to — and the ECG for which he gives a preview of the HATW model that he and Dr. .: Figure-1: ECG from the August 26, 2009 post in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog.

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Age of menopause, healthy lifestyle and cardiovascular disease in women: a prospective cohort study

Heart BMJ

Methods The Sax Institute’s 45 and Up Study prospectively recruited participants aged ≥45 years (n=267 357) between 2005 and 2009 (New South Wales, Australia). Our study included women without prior CVD and reporting menopausal age at baseline.

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Abstract TP191: National Trends in Rescue Therapy for Failed Thrombectomy 2009-2020

Stroke Journal

This study assesses the longitudinal trends for adjunctive treatments following failed thrombectomy in the U.S.Methods:We performed a data search from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database using ICD9 and ICD10 procedure codes from 2009 through 2020. In 2020, these cases represented 48.6% (520/1,070) of the patients stented.

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Number of Rheumatologists Increased More Than 20% Over Last Decade

HCPLive

Between 2009 and 2020, the number of rheumatologists increased 23%, from 4557 to 5600.

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Breakthrough Research Identifies Predictors of Venous Thromboembolism after Pulmonary Resection for Lung Cancer

DAIC

They looked at anonymous results for 57,531 adult patients who underwent pulmonary resection—removal of all or part of a lung—between January 2009 and June 2021. Of these patients, 758 developed blood clots that moved to the lungs after surgery.

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AFib Might Be Far More Common Than We Think

CardiacWire

AFib rates increased dramatically during the study period, from 4.49% in 2005-2009 to 6.82% in 2015-2019. UCSF researchers analyzed medical records from 29M adults who received hospital-based care in California from 2005 to 2019 (51yr avg. age, 54% women, 50% White), finding that a whopping 2M (6.8%) of them had been diagnosed with AFib.

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