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Association Between Cardiovascular Event Type and Smoking Cessation Rates Among Outpatients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Insights From the NCDR PINNACLE Registry

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Self-reported smoking status was assessed at each consecutive visit and used to determine smoking cessation after each interim ASCVD event (myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass graft, stroke/transient ischemic attack, peripheral artery disease).

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

Journal of the American Heart Association

In the subsample of patients with left anterior descending artery and any other artery stenosis, PCI remained dominant from 2007 to 2018, while in patients with left main and any other artery stenosis, CABG remained dominant from 2007 to 2018 (P<0.001).

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Abstract 4148106: Hemophilia and Cardiovascular disease in the United States: Prevalence, Risk factors, and outcomes.

Circulation

The secondary outcomes comprise the odds of adverse events, including myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), occlusive atherosclerotic disease, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).,

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An athletic 30-something woman with acute substernal chest pressure

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Invasive therapies, such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) should be reserved for patients with ongoing ischemia, left main artery dissection, or hemodynamic instability 6. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2012;5:134–137. doi: 10.1161/ CIRCINTERVENTIONS.111.966630.

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Hospital Variation in Skilled Nursing Facility Use After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundOver 20% of patients are discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery, but little is known about specific drivers for postdischarge SNF use. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print.

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Impact of High Lipoprotein(a) on Long?Term Survival Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Journal of the American Heart Association

The distribution and prognostic implication of lipoprotein(a) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting remain unknown. The adverse effects of lipoprotein(a) were more pronounced in patients with clinically low‐risk profiles or not receiving arterial grafts. During a median follow‐up of 3.2

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Administrative Model for Profiling Hospital Performance on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Based on the Chinese Hospital Quality Monitoring System

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundWe aimed to develop an administrative model to profile the performance on the outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting across hospitals in China.Methods and ResultsThis retrospective study was based on the Chinese Hospital Quality Monitoring System (HQMS) from 2016 to 2020.