Open Heart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Methods Cross-sectional study conducted between 2018 and 2021 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control rates of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes were compared between the periods before (N=2416, 45.2% For diabetes, prevalence did not change but awareness increased 5.76 (95% CI 1.23

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Hypertension Journal

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:The long-term benefit of achieving the Japanese Society of Hypertension home systolic blood pressure (SBP) target of <125 mm Hg has not been fully evaluated. Findings were similar in the subgroup of high-risk patients (those with diabetes or stroke history).CONCLUSIONS:These

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Background:The STRACK project aims to improve post-stroke patient management and the transition from acute to primary care thanks to improvements in patient pathways and monitoring cardiovascular risk factors: heart failure, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, dyslipidemia and hypertension.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The purpose of this study is to clarify the incidence rate of IHOS among hospitalized patients and to investigate the risk factors associated with IHOS.Methods:Patients consecutively admitted to the Nippon Medical School hospital between April 2018 and March 2023 were assessed. Stroke group had higher mortality (14.9%

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The British Journal of Cardiology

APRIL 16, 2024

We present the cumulative percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) data of all comers (stable angina and acute coronary syndromes [ACS]) who presented to Hadi Clinic between January 2018 and December 2020. A total of 567 patients underwent coronary catheterisation for the three-year period between January 2018 and December 2020.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Therefore, we examined the temporal trends in cardiovascular conditions among Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian adults living in the U.S.Methods:We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using the 2004-2018 National Health Interview Survey.

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Circulation: Heart Failure

MARCH 8, 2024

Between 2016 and 2018, 3285 MESA participants from 6 field centers underwent comprehensive speckle-tracking echocardiography with passive leg raise maneuver, Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire, 6-minute walk test, arterial stiffness assessment, and proteomics (including NT-proBNP [N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide]).Results:Median

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We aim to study if patients with severe cervical myalgias and FHP have an increased risk of posterior circulation stroke.Methods:We identified all adult patients with posterior circulation stroke and diagnosis of cervical myalgia at Loyola University Medical Center from January 2018 to January 2023. The average C2 tilt of cases was 22.9

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This study compares outcomes of these treatments and evaluates the correlation between clinical features and medical history with 30-day outcome.Methods:Patients with VBAS were identified from the 2017-2018 National Inpatient Sample (NIS). Hypertension (HTN, 85.4%) and diabetes (DM, 18.9%) were prevalent. Mean age was 69.45

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This study examined the relationship between marijuana use, ASCVD risk factors, and cardiometabolic risk profiles.METHODS:US adults (18–59 years) without cardiovascular disease were identified from the National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey (2005–2018) based on self-reported marijuana use. female; 13% non-Hispanic Black), 26.6%

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Repeat ECGs make difficult decisions easier. -- Comment by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 12/29/2018 ): -- Superb case by Dr. Pendell Meyers, which highlights recognition of subtle acute findings. Although I arrived at the same conclusion as Drs.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Written by Willy Frick A man in his 50s with a history of hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and prior inferior OMI status post DES to his proximal RCA 3 years prior presented to the emergency department at around 3 AM complaining of chest pain onset around 9 PM the evening prior.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Case submitted and written by Mazen El-Baba MD, with edits from Jesse McLaren and edits/comments by Smith and Grauer A 90-year old with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, presented with acute onset chest/epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting. Miranda DF, Lobo AS, Walsh B, et al.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 1, 2023

edits by Meyers A woman in her 60s with a history of chronic atrial fibrillation on Eliquis, ESRD on hemodialysis, type-II diabetes mellitus, prior CVA, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presented to the emergency department with multiple complaints after missing dialysis. Case written by Brandon Friedman M.D.,

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Stroke Journal

MARCH 18, 2025

BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study is to examine the association between race and ethnicity and ischemic stroke severity in the United States.METHODS:We performed an analysis of adult hospital discharges in the National Inpatient Sample from 2018 to 2021 with a primary discharge diagnosis of ischemic stroke.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The patient was in his 50s with history of hypertension, diabetes, seizure disorder, and smoking, but no known coronary artery disease. My Comment by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 10/6 /2018 ): = Superb case presented by Dr. Meyers! I limit my comments to reinforcing several important concepts emphasized by him.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 9, 2024

The 14 Factors Include: Hearing Loss High LDL cholesterol Less Education Traumatic Brain Injury Depression Social Isolation Hypertension Obesity Smoking Excess Alcohol Diabetes Physical Inactivity Air Pollution Visual Loss Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission When You Intervene Matters.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The study assessed the prevalence of CVD (heart attack, angina pectoris, coronary heart disease, other heart conditions, or stroke) and LE8 risk factors: insufficient physical activity (PA), nicotine exposure, sleep duration, obesity, physician-diagnosed high cholesterol, diabetes, and hypertension. NHW&6.8%

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Hypertension Journal

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Hypertension, Volume 82, Issue 1 , Page 136-148, January 1, 2025. We hypothesized that higher VOC exposure is associated with higher blood pressure and hypertension, among nonsmokers.METHODS:We included 4 cycles of data (20112018) of nonsmoking adults (n=4430) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. had diabetes.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Age‐standardized treatment rates for diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension were 33.1% (95% CI, 26.9%–39.2%), Age‐standardized control rates for diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension were 86.8% (95% CI, 83.8%–89.8%), The mean age of survivors of stroke was 65.1 years, years, and 55.5% 39.2%), 67.5% (95% CI, 62.6%–72.3%),

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JULY 25, 2023

There are significant data that show that if you have obesity, you have a high risk of developing coronary heart disease, heart failure, type 2 diabetes (T2D) or risk factors such as hypertension and dyslipidemia. [1] I think we live in a very exciting time right now for those who work in diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

MARCH 21, 2025

We aimed to determine whether selfreported risk factors serve as reliable proxies and predict stroke and dementiarelated mortality.Methods and ResultsWe used crosssectional data from the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) from 1999 to 2018 linked to National Death Index records.

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The Beat Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2018, cardiovascular outcomes researcher Dr. Leslee Shaw and her collaborators published “10-Year Resource Utilization and Costs for Cardiovascular Care.” Like age, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension are also widely accepted as cardiovascular disease factors. 17% of all annual healthcare costs in the U.S.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Reliability of self-reported risk factors was high in overweight (F1 0.81) and diabetes (F1 0.71), moderate in hearing impairment (F1 0.59) and hypertension (F1 0.56) and low in hypercholesterolemia (F1 0.49) and kidney disease (F1 0.25).

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Stroke Journal

DECEMBER 28, 2023

5.17]) and hypertension (adjusted odds ratio, 2.49 [95% CI, 0.56–11.1]) In patients with ESUS, sex played a more important role for the prevalence of nsCP than in defined etiologies. Female patients with ESUS had lower odds of exhibiting nsCP compared with male patients with ESUS (adjusted odds ratio, 0.36 [95% CI, 0.15–0.86]).

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

in 2018 to 2.8% CADASIL patients had lower rates of hypertension, diabetes, and coronary artery disease (55.0% Descriptive statistics evaluated demographic and clinical characteristics among AIS patients with and without CADASIL.Results:Of a total 1,918,920 weighted AIS hospitalizations, there were 300 patients with CADASIL.

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Open Heart

JANUARY 13, 2023

Methods Using the Danish Heart Failure Registry, we conducted a nationwide registry-based cohort study of all incident HF patients diagnosed from 2008 to 2018 and without history of AF. The objective was to develop clinical prediction models for 1-year risk of AF. Administrative data sources provided the predictors.

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However its limitations are varying functional outcomes, as their point of evaluation was at the time of discharge as well as it lacking a long‐term outcome follow up.MethodsIn this single center retrospective study, subjects included were all patients who underwent EVT during the period of September 2018 to April 2023.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Written by Magnus Nossen The patient in today's case is a male in his 70s with hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus. His wife contacted the ambulance service after the patient experienced an episode of loss of consciousness. The syncope lasted about 2-3 minutes according to his wife.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data on HT‐related emergency department (ED) visits are limited.Methods and ResultsA retrospective analysis of 177 450 HT patient ED visits from the 2009 to 2018 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample was conducted. HT volumes and HT‐related ED visits increased from 2009 to 2018. Length of stay was 3.1 days (interquartile range, 1.6–5.9

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Coronary Artery Disease Journal

JUNE 3, 2024

Methods A cohort of 1245 individuals without chronic kidney disease from southwest China who underwent coronary angiography between February 2018 and June 2021 were enrolled. 3.11), while sex, smoking, hypertension, and diabetes did not show similar effects. 5.89), nonobese individuals (OR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.16–3.1),

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In a linear regression model adjusted for age, sex, race, hypertension, diabetes, prior stroke, current smoking, current alcohol use, systolic blood pressure, and APOE genotype, lower eGFR was significantly associated with higher WMH ( = -0.008; 95% CI -0.013, -0.003; p < 0.001) (Figure 2). female, 22.1% female, 22.1%

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, little is known about LE8 scores in patients with history of stroke compared to the general population.Methods:Data was included on individuals aged 18 and older who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) from 2005 to 2018. 95% CI, 57.8-60.5) compared to those who did not (63.8, 95% CI, 63.4-64.2)

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, little is known about LE8 scores in patients with history of stroke compared to the general population.Methods:Data was included on individuals aged 18 and older who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) from 2005 to 2018. 95% CI, 57.8-60.5) compared to those who did not (63.8, 95% CI, 63.4-64.2)

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

OCTOBER 25, 2023

2018 Feb 1;378(5):417-427. Marrouche NF, Brachmann J, Andresen D, Siebels J, Boersma L, Jordaens L, Merkely B, Pokushalov E, Sanders P, Proff J, Schunkert H, Christ H, Vogt J, Bänsch D; CASTLE-AF Investigators. Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation with Heart Failure. N Engl J Med. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1707855. PMID: 29385358.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Edits by Meyers and Smith A man in his 70s with PMH of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, CVA, dual-chamber Medtronic pacemaker, presented to the ED for evaluation of acute chest pain. Interestingly, this patient was seen in the ED for hypertension and headache 3 days earlier. Sent by Pete McKenna M.D.

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

APRIL 20, 2023

Mark Erfe Outcomes of Sutureless/Rapid Deployment Valves Compared to Traditional Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves The Annals of Thoracic Surgery September 2020 J.

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