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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

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mg experienced a 23% lower incidence of death from cardiovascular causes, resuscitated cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, stroke, or urgent hospitalization for angina leading to coronary revascularization in a time-to-event analysis. 2013;368(21):2004-2013. Inflammation in coronary artery disease. Published 2013 Apr 4.

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Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Mechanical complications such as free wall rupture, VSR and papillary muscle rupture is more likely to occur in patients who are older, female, hypertensive, have chronic kidney disease, and have no prior history of smoking. References: [1] Lador, A. The American Journal of Cardiology , 121 (6), 690694. link] [2] Oliva, P. Hammill, S.