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CDC: Premature Mortality for Top Causes of Death Higher in Rural Areas

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- Americans living in rural areas had higher rates of preventable premature mortality from the five leading causes of death than those living in urban areas during the years 2010-2022, and the divide only appears to be growing.

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2010 to 2021 saw rise in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

There was an increase in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and most associated risk factors between 2010 and 2021 overall in the entire U.S. pregnant population, according to a research letter published online June 10 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Scripts for GLP-1, SGLT2 Drugs on the Rise in Type 1 Diabetes Patients

Med Page Today

From 2010 to 2023, the percentage of type 1 diabetes patients. (MedPage Today) -- GLP-1 receptor agonist or SGLT2 inhibitor prescribing became more common for people with type 1 diabetes in recent years, a nationwide cross-sectional analysis found.

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Deaths from cardiovascular disease increased among younger U.S adults in rural areas

American Heart News - Heart News

adults from 2010 to 2022 found that cardiovascular disease death rates increased by about 21% for adults ages 25-64 living in rural areas, however, the rates. Research Highlights: An analysis of death certificate data for more than 11 million U.S.

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Temporal Trends in Noninvasive and Invasive Cardiac Testing From 2010 to 2022 in the US Medicare Population

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

CONCLUSIONS:Between 2010 and 2022, cardiac diagnostic testing in the US Medicare population shifted from invasive angiography and traditional stress testing toward an increase in cardiac CT, cardiac magnetic resonance, and positron emission tomography. of cardiac testing use in 2011 and 67.7%

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Risk of myocardial infarction and stroke following bloodstream infection: a population-based self-controlled case series

Open Heart

We included adults with community-acquired BSI between 2010 and 2020. Methods This self-controlled case series study was conducted within the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage Databank, containing anonymised population-scale electronic health record data for Wales, UK.

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Top stories on arrhythmogenic (right ventricular?) cardiomyopathy

HeartRhythm

Crucial to the field were the initial diagnostic criteria proposed in 1994 and later revised in 2010. For the past several decades, research on arrhythmogenic right ventricular (RV) cardiomyopathy has focused on describing the clinical features, genetic underpinnings, and natural history of patients with this condition.