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Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography to Honor Oxford’s Kenneth Chan, MBBS at SCCT2024

DAIC

Kenneth Chan, MBBS, Academic Clinical Research Fellow in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals (UK) will receive the 2024 SCCT Clinical Trials and Registries Award (CTRA) at the opening session of the Society’s 19th Annual Scientific Meeting (SCCT2024) on Friday, July 19 in Washington, DC.

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Abstract TMP16: Is Lipoprotein(a) Being Measured in Ischemic Stroke Patients?

Stroke Journal

Elevated levels of Lp(a) are an independent and causal risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases through mechanisms associated with increased atherogenesis, inflammation, and thrombosis. Having elevated Lp(a) can increase risk of heart attack, stroke, and peripheral artery disease.It

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

Women also had more cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension (66.6% There may be no better study to symbolize the dysfunction that has invaded cardiology than the VIRGO trial, a study examining the outcomes of young patients (18-55) presenting to the hospital with a heart attack. years of age versus 59.0±8.4

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Feature | Bridging the Gender Gap in Heart Health: Women’s Specialized Clinics

American College of Cardiology

3,4 Importantly, women have numerous sex-specific risk factors in addition to non-sex-specific ones. Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy can also affect risk, based on a woman's level of cardiometabolic risk. This is one way that multidisciplinary care comes into play.

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The legal case – naming a few names

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

This misinformation would have resulted in many thousands of people giving up their medication and suffering heart attacks and strokes as a result. At one point George Mann attempted to arrange a meeting of scientists who agreed that the diet-heart/cholesterol hypothesis was bunk. With thousands dying.