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Trends in prognosis and use of SGLT2i and GLP-1 RA in patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Objective To explore trends in prognosis and use of glucose-lowering drugs (GLD) in patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD). Information on GLD (dispended 6 months before or after coronary angiography) was collected from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Registry.

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Health literacy interventions for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease: a scoping review

Open Heart

Deficits in health literacy are common in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), and this is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We searched electronic databases for studies published since 2010.

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Temporal Trend in Revascularization for Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

Journal of the American Heart Association

The PCI trend remained unchanged from 2007 to 2010 and then increased significantly (annual percentage change, 3.2%;P=0.02). Joinpoint regression and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to assess the annual percentage change in trends and predictors of the 30‐day mortality rate, respectively.

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HeartFlow Achieves Landmark Milestone of 250,000 Patients Assessed for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) with FFRCT Analysis

DAIC

NEJM 2010. For more information: www.heartflow.com References 1. Arbab-Zadeh, Heart Int 2012. Yokota, et al. Neth Heart J 2018. Nakanishi, et al. J Nucl Cardiol 2016. Patel et al. 2021 ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines. Turnaround time is defined as the time it takes from customer CCTA submission for HeartFlow to deliver back the FFRCT Analysis.

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Comorbidities prior to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and diagnoses at discharge among survivors

Open Heart

Previously, 80% of sudden cardiac arrest have been attributed to coronary artery disease. Among hospitalised patients, 30% were diagnosed with AMI, 27% with hypertension, 20% with ischaemic heart disease and 18% with heart failure as discharge diagnoses.

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Randomised trial of stable chest pain investigation: 3-year clinical and quality of life results from CE-MARC 2

Open Heart

Methods CE-MARC 2, a three-arm parallel group trial, randomised patients with suspected stable cardiac chest pain and a Duke Clinical pretest likelihood of coronary artery disease between 10% and 90%. 12) Questionnaire and EuroQol-5 Dimension Questionnaire were recorded. QoL scores did not significantly differ across domains.

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From the Member Sections | Tackling the Polypharmacy Pandemic in CV Care

American College of Cardiology

Self-reported adherence to cardiovascular medications in patients who have coronary artery disease is for the combination of aspirin, beta-blocker and a lipid-lowering agent in surveys.7 Long-Term Adherence to Evidence-Based Secondary Prevention Therapies in Coronary Artery Disease. BMC Med2015;13(74).