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Heart Failure – Does Testosterone Hold the Key?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Today’s video is on the subject of heart failure. Heart failure is a chronic clinical syndrome characterised by the inability of the heart to pump out enough blood to meet the body’s requirements. Anything that affects the heart in a bad way may in its severest form lead to heart failure.

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Adverse Social Determinants of Health Linked to Treatment-resistant Hypertension in Black Americans

DAIC

Apparent treatment-resistant hypertension is defined as the need to take three or more types of anti-high blood pressure medication daily and is associated with an increased risk for stroke , coronary heart disease , heart failure , and all-cause mortality. Over a period of 9.5 of white adults.

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Abstract 262: National Trends of 90?day Readmission Rates and Etiologies among Diabetics following Transient Ischemic Attack

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

from 2016‐2019 and secondary diagnosis of T2DM. Data was weighted to allow for representative nationwide estimates.ResultsWe identified 426,549 patients who were admitted with a primary diagnosis of TIA between 2016 and 2019. The primary diagnosis of the readmission was used to identify the etiology of readmission.

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How To Test For Insulin Resistance

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Insulin resistance is a core risk factor for the three leading causes of death: Cardiovascular Disease Cancer Dementia. With no insulin resistance and high APOB (LDL-C), the risk of future heart events increases by about 80%. Subscribe now Take cardiovascular disease, for example. PMID: 19138424; PMCID: PMC2635363. doi: 10.1089/met.2018.0105.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

History of Cardiovascular disease (all studies): Especially any history of heart failure or structural cardiac disease, including valvular 4. Finally, much of this correlates well with The new Canadian Syncope Arrhythmia Risk Score , just published in 2016, results of which are given below in the Annotated Bibliography.