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

DAIC

New research presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ Annual Meeting found that patients with postoperative PE had increased 30-day mortality, reintubation, and readmission rates. In this contemporary analysis of the GTSD, the research team identified a 2.5% occurrence of postoperative VTE and a 1.3%

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AFib Might Be Far More Common Than We Think

CardiacWire

UCSF researchers analyzed medical records from 29M adults who received hospital-based care in California from 2005 to 2019 (51yr avg. AFib rates increased dramatically during the study period, from 4.49% in 2005-2009 to 6.82% in 2015-2019. When these results are applied across the U.S., adult population.

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Preparation for Emergency Infectious Outbreak in your ED – Coronavirus

ECG Cases

Although the mortality rate in patients with Coronavirus in this outbreak is less than 1% (which pales in comparison to Ebola or SARS), historically these types of outbreaks have occured every 5-6 years (SARS 2003, HINI 2009, Ebola 2014, Coronavirus 2020), so they are somewhat predictable and we should know how to prepare for them in our EDs.

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Abstract TP292: Number of destinations other than home and work within a half mile of residence and outcomes in first year poststroke

Stroke Journal

Future research is needed to determine if specific types of destinations may support poststroke outcomes. Prior studies were limited by cross-sectional design, confounding, or defining the neighborhood by census tract.Hypothesis:Greater number of destinations within a 0.5-mile Our exposure is the count of destinations within a 0.5

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National A-Fib Numbers Higher Than Previously Thought

DAIC

11, 2024 — In the first national estimate in two decades, researchers at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) report that 10.5 percent of the patients treated between 2005 and 2009 to 6.82% of the patients treated between 2015 and 2019. tim.hodson Wed, 09/11/2024 - 15:40 Sept. million Americans have atrial fibrillation.