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National Cardiogenic Shock Initiative Study Results Show Significant Increase in Heart Attack Survival

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The typical survival rate of this deadly complication during a heart attack has historically hovered around 50%. Final results from the national study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association were achieved from looking at 406 patients from hospitals across 29 states. In the U.S.,

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

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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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Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Stroke Recovery Through Digital Health Solutions

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To improve outcomes and be in compliance with new regulations, it's crucial to better identify and address these issues during the recovery period. I had had a heart attack previously. Stroke recovery is a challenging process that extends for months after hospital discharge.

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The real heart disease gender gap and the cardiologists that get it all wrong.

Dr. Anish Koka

Image by Pexels from Pixabay There would appear to be confusion among some cardiologists about the relative prevalence of malignant heart disease between men and women as evidenced by this exchange on twitter from pre-pandemic times.

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A big data COVID train wreck

Dr. Anish Koka

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. Let me explain why. Anish Koka is a cardiologist in Philadelphia. Follow him on twitter @anish_koka

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The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

Dr. Anish Koka

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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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko famously rejected the objective reality of Mendelian genetics because it clashed with the Marxist philosophy that the environment, not genetics, was the primary determinant of outcomes. But what should matter is outcomes not diagnoses. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.