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How High Blood Pressure Affects Your Heart and What You Can Do About It

MIBHS

Often referred to as the silent killer, hypertension can quietly damage your heart and other vital organs over time. Understanding how high blood pressure impacts your heart and learning to manage it can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease and improve your overall health. What Is High Blood Pressure?

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Characterisation of the octogenarians presenting to the diagnostic heart failure clinic: SHEAF registry

Open Heart

Introduction Heart failure (HF) incidence is increasing in older adults with high hospitalisation and mortality rates. Frailty, chronic kidney disease and ischaemic heart disease increased significantly versus the first period (p<0.001). Treatment is complicated by side effects and comorbidities.

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SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack

DAIC

However, researchers said the drug may be helpful in reducing heart failure risks, including hospitalization, following a heart attack. All secondary endpoints related specifically to heart failure outcomes were significantly reduced among patients who received empagliflozin.

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Understanding an Enlarged Heart (Cardiomegaly): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

MIBHS

Dilation: The chambers of the heart expand, making the walls thinner. Both forms of enlargement may compromise the heart’s ability to pump blood efficiently, leading to further complications like heart failure. What Causes an Enlarged Heart? Beta-blockers , which slow the heart rate and reduce blood pressure.

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EMPACT-MI Trial Outcomes Reported at ACC24: SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack

DAIC

While composite of death and heart failure hospitalizations was not significantly reduced, empagliflozin may help reduce heart failure risks after a heart attack, according to results from the EMPACT-MI trial presented on day one of the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, ACC.24,

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Today’s vlog is on the subject of heart failure and in particular on a special type of pacemaker which can make a significant improvement to the quality of life and length of life in patients with heart failure. What is heart failure? You can download this script as a Hindi translation here.

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Heart Failure – Does Testosterone Hold the Key?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

One of the reasons I wanted to start this channel was because of my frustration at how limited we were when it came to treating heart disease patients. Today’s video is on the subject of heart failure. Anything that affects the heart in a bad way may in its severest form lead to heart failure.