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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

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mg experienced a 23% lower incidence of death from cardiovascular causes, resuscitated cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, stroke, or urgent hospitalization for angina leading to coronary revascularization in a time-to-event analysis. 2019 Sep 10;140(11):e649-e650] [published correction appears in Circulation.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

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It is apparently fortunate that she had a cardiac arrest; otherwise, her ECG would have been ignored. Takotsubo is a sudden event, not one with crescendo angina. Then they did an MRI: Patient underwent cardiac MRI on 10/4 that showed mildly reduced BiV systolic function. She was defibrillated and resuscitated.

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