Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 5, 2025

The NHS could prevent thousands more heart attacks and strokes every year by offering everyone in the UK aged 50 and over a single "polypill" combining a statin and three blood pressure lowering drugs, according to academics from UCL.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MAY 2, 2024

Youth with high blood pressure are nearly four times more likely to be at long-term risk of serious heart conditions including stroke and heart attack, according to a new study. The research, led by McMaster University, will be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2024 Meeting, held May 2–6 in Toronto.

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DAIC

JUNE 4, 2024

Stroke recovery is a challenging process that extends for months after hospital discharge. Navigating Post-Stroke Recovery at Home: One Patient's Experience A ”mildly impaired” stroke patient with atrial fibrillation who was discharged reported, “I knew my local pharmacist, and they knew my prescriptions.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATMP16-ATMP16, February 1, 2025. Having elevated Lp(a) can increase risk of heart attack, stroke, and peripheral artery disease.It One hospital, a primary stroke center had significantly more patients tested due to specific interest in Lp(a).

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The portrayal of a patient “ case study ” used in the coverage – which referred to a heart attack patient at Hammersmith Hospital in London identified as “Colin” – was “ misleading ”. You might, horror, of horrors, have to debate the science itself. This was described as a “ serious error ” on the Defendants’ part.

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Dr. Anish Koka

JANUARY 18, 2023

The open-data movement seeks to liberate the massive amount of data generated in running clinical trials from the grasp of the academic medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex that mostly runs the most important trials responsible for bringing novel therapeutics to market. But first, some background.

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Dr. Anish Koka

MARCH 4, 2023

If there was any doubt the academic research enterprise is completely broken, we have an absolute train wreck of a study in one of the many specialty journals of the Journal of the American Medical Association — JAMA Health. The relative risk of every major adverse event is significantly increased in the post COVID group.

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