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Gardner Treadmill Protocol

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

It is used mainly in the evaluation of peripheral arterial disease. Handrail support reduces energy cost of treadmill walking, and can affect claudication distance and hemodynamic responses in persons with peripheral vascular disease. 2017 Oct;32(10):1186-1194. Epub 2017 May 2. mph in stage 3.

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Outpatient vascular care : Good, bad or ugly?

Dr. Anish Koka

Most have gotten used to egregiously bad coverage of current events that fills the pages of today’s New York Times, but even by their now very low standards a recent telling of a story about peripheral artery disease was very bad. His license was not suspended, and he continues to operate a busy practice today.

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HeartFlow Announces Revolutionary Five-Year Data Demonstrating a 63 Percent Mortality Reduction with FFRCT-Guided Care in PAD Patients

DAIC

The 2017 ESC guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral arterial diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).” “Diagnosis and treatment of ischemia-producing coronary stenoses improves 5-year survival of patients undergoing major vascular surgery.” 2024, [link].

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American Heart Month Puts Spotlight on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Statistics

DAIC

The article also includes links to DAIC channels (on peripheral artery disease, stroke, heart failure, peripheral artery disease, cardiovascular clinical studies, and more) focused on specific areas of news coverage. 1 in 3 adults with Type 2 diabetes may have undetected cardiovascular disease.

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Post-event follow-up costs in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in Spain

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Patients with a new or recurrent episode of ASCVD (angina, acute myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack, stroke, or peripheral arterial disease) between 1-Jan-2017 and 31-Dec-2018 were included.

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

DAIC

12,16 In 2017, CANTOS (Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study) provided proof-of-principle that inflammation inhibition in the absence of lipid lowering can significantly reduce cardiovascular event rates and helped to define the interleukin-1 (IL-1) to IL-6 to CRP pathway as a central target in CV disease.16

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Characterizing Heart Failure Across the Spectrum of the Preserved Ejection Fraction: Does Heart Failure With Supranormal Ejection Fraction Exist? Data From the Swedish Heart Failure Registry

Journal of the American Heart Association

Methods and ResultsThere were 5576 patients enrolled in the Swedish HF registry between 2017 and 2021 and included in the study; 21% had EF 60%, 5% EF 65%, and 1.5% We characterized EF distribution, characteristics, and outcomes in patients with HF and EF 50%.Methods