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Trends in the Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis: A Nationwide Study From 2016 to 2021

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundInfective endocarditis (IE) is still a fatal disease, and given its rarity, ongoing updates to patient characteristics and outcomes of IE are essential for providing precision diagnoses and effective treatments. per 100 000 population in 2016 to 2.59 in 2016 to 15.4% The incidence of IE increased from 2.02

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Diagnostic pathways, cardiac manifestations and outcomes in light chain amyloidosis: analysis of a US claims database

Open Heart

We qualitatively and quantitatively characterised the diagnostic pathway and the impact of delayed diagnosis on health outcomes among patients with AL amyloidosis. We stratified patients based on time from first cardiovascular (CV) manifestation onset to diagnosis.

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New approach to defibrillation may improve cardiac arrest outcomes

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. Joshua Lupton, M.D., He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete recovery and putting him among fewer than one in 10 people nationwide who survive cardiac arrest outside of a hospital.

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Intensive Versus Traditional Cardiac Rehabilitation: Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes in a 2016–2020 Retrospective Medicare Cohort

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print. Background:Traditional cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves cardiovascular outcomes and reduces mortality, but less is known about the relative benefit of intensive CR (ICR) which incorporates greater lifestyle education through 72 sessions (versus 36 in CR). female).

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Association of Cannabis Use With Cardiovascular Outcomes Among US Adults

Journal of the American Heart Association

We assessed the association of cannabis use (number of days of cannabis use in the past 30 days) with self‐reported cardiovascular outcomes (coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, and a composite measure of all 3) in multivariable regression models, adjusting for tobacco use and other characteristics in adults 18 to 74 years old.

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PO-06-028 SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES OF LEADLESS PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION IN THE UNITED STATES – INSIGHT FROM NATIONAL READMISSION DATABASE 2016-2020

HeartRhythm

Since its first Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2016, there has been a significant uptrend in the utilization of leadless pacemakers (LL-PPM).

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Abstract TMP100: Acute Ischemic Stroke in Young Adults: A Comparative Analysis of Outcomes and Mortality in Metabolically Healthy Obese vs. Normal Weight Individuals, 2016-2019 Cohort

Stroke Journal

Analyzing acute ischemic stroke (AIS) trends and outcomes in MHO vs. metabolically healthy normal weight (MH-NW).Methods:Data Methods:Data from the National Inpatient Sample (2016-2019) was analyzed to identify young MHO and MH-NW AIS patients using ICD-10 codes. The median AIS patient age was 35.

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