Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The second reason is commonly referred to as a ‘Heart Attack’ or acute coronary syndrome. The decision to use a stent here is usually clear and is associated with fewer deaths and heart attacks 1. years, there was no difference between these two groups in terms of death from any cause or heart attacks.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 17, 2024

Does stress cause heart disease? The short answer is ‘ Yes ’ But if you want to know why and what you can do about it, you should read the rest of this article. But What About Stress & Heart Disease? First, let’s define some terms. Stress is the collective response (biochemically, cognitively, etc.)

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 30, 2024

Poor Sleep Increases The Rate Of Heart Attacks & Stroke. Not only is short sleep linked to the development of more risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure, but it is also linked to a 20% increase in the rates of heart attack 5. Poor Sleep Increases The Rate Of Heart Attacks & Stroke.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This article will explore how AI-driven diagnostics are reshaping cardiovascular medicine and how can healthcare leaders can leverage these innovations to improve patient care and control costs. Unplanned cardiac hospitalizations can be very expensive, with studies showing the cost of an index heart failure hospitalization averaging $13,000.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 4, 2025

Remember, after reading all my newsletter articles, you will have an excellent idea of how to do this. Heart Imaging Often, what patients are really worried about is ‘ if '‘ they have heart disease. And if it is putting them at very high risk of a heart attack in the future. Not 50 of them.

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American College of Cardiology

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Implementing and tracking quality improvement (QI) metrics may lead to improved outcomes in patient care after STEMI in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), according to an analysis of data from the ACC's Global Heart Attack Treatment Initiative (GHATI).

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 23, 2024

By the end of this article, you should be convinced that high levels of fitness and daily exercise are a MUST for a longer quality of life without major illness. A higher daily step count is also linked to significantly lower cancer, stroke and heart disease rates.

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American College of Cardiology

AUGUST 15, 2024

Scott Paulsen, a resident of Tampa Bay, FL, has credited an Early Heart Attack Care (EHAC) resource he received while attending an AED training session at his work in helping save his life.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 1, 2023

CT coronary angiography, in addition to a CT CAC, is arguably the best test for estimating whether someone has evidence of coronary artery disease and what that means for their near-term risk of a heart attack. This article is part 2 of a series on cardiac CT. I've included the article here.

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American College of Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

New data assessing the impact of ACC's Global Heart Attack Initiative (GHATI) on patient care outcomes at the CEDIMAT Cardiovascular Center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. STEMI remains a major cause of morbidity, mortality, disability, and high health care costs in Latin America and the rest of the world.

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BoardVitals - Cardiovascular

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You can find the answer and explanation at the end of this article. Family history significant for a brother who had a heart attack at 40 years of age. Up to five percent of women who are suspected of having a heart attack, may actually have takotsubo cardiomyopathy. She recently lost her husband in a plane crash.

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Hypertension Journal

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

2 If this was a simple issue to solve, one could ask – what do we need to ensure that the 60% to 80% of people with hypertension who are at high risk of a stroke, heart attack and other consequences, are not left behind? see the full article for more] Hypertension control remains a significant challenge globally.1

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The aim is to reduce death and damage from nasty things such as heart attacks and strokes. With diabetes, the aim is also to reduce heart attacks and strokes… additionally kidney failure, and amputations, and blindness. Currently, after any heart attack, standard therapy includes four different medications.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

This brief article aims to address this common misconception and explains how cardiac specialist clinical psychologists aim to help people who are living with ectopic heartbeats. Safety behaviours are actions carried out with the intention of preventing a feared scenario (for example, having a heart attack).

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Physiologically Speaking

OCTOBER 11, 2024

I also have a peer-reviewed article on the subject of sleep and endothelial function that you can download here. This increases your risk for a heart attack and causes more stress on your heart, blood vessels, and other organs like the eyes and brain.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 29, 2023

If you want a binary yes/no answer to this question, this article is not for you. The reduced events included: 44% reduction in major heart events (Heart attacks, strokes, cardiovascular death etc.) If you want the nuanced data on this topic to help you make an informed decision, then read on. Share But what about events?

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Dr. Anish Koka

JANUARY 18, 2023

LDL floats around in the blood stream and is thought to incrementally accumulate on blood vessels in the body, ultimately increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes. The positive results described were driven almost entirely by fewer heart attacks, and fewer revascularization procedures in the evolucumab arm.

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Wellnest

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Electrocardiography (ECG) is a diagnostic tool that measures the heart's electrical activity. It is commonly used to diagnose heart attacks, arrhythmias, and other heart conditions. This article will next focus on the best analog ECG machines available today.

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Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 10, 2024

Calcified plaques are known to be more stable and less prone to rupture and lead to a heart attack. Exercise and Coronary Atherosclerosis | Circulation There are a few pieces of evidence, however, that can give endurance athletes some reassurance that they’re not headed to an early grave.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Share If you do not read any further, you will have come away with the main takeaway of this article. A therapy that has been proven repeatedly to reduce the probability of heart attacks and strokes in multiple double-blind randomised controlled studies 1. The answer is: No. Statins do not cause dementia.

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DAIC

MARCH 5, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Tue, 03/05/2024 - 13:15 March 5, 2024 — Frequent cannabis smoking may significantly increase a person’s risk for heart attack and stroke, according to an observational study supported by the National Institutes of Health. Less frequent use was also associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events.

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Dr. Anish Koka

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Cardiac Cath labs waiting for some major influx of COVID heart damage not only didn’t see patients presenting with COVID heart attacks, but they idled as patients terrified of coming to the hospital stayed home rather than come to the hospital with chest pain.

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Wellnest

JULY 19, 2023

Have you wondered what causes a heart attack? Three coronary arteries supply blood to the heart. When one of these arteries becomes completely blocked by a blood clot, it results in a heart attack, also known as MI (Myocardial infarction). So, how do you recognize a heart attack?

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JULY 12, 2024

If you have high LDL cholesterol and are unsure what that means for your risk of heart disease, this article is for you. But remember, heart disease or atherosclerosis does not kill people. Heart attacks kill people. But the more plaque you have, the higher the risk of a heart attack.

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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

These have ranged from heart attacks, cardio-obstetrics, breast cancer, prevention and arrhythmias.8-13 Education forms a key pillar of the program, such as educating emergency room physicians about how women present with heart attacks compared with men.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that the consumption of saturated fat (SFA) undermines cardiovascular health, clogs the arteries, increases risk of CVD and leads to heart attacks. It is timely to investigate whether this claim holds up to scientific scrutiny.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 30, 2024

When the Mail on Sunday published their libelous articles about me on March 3 rd , 2019, I was expecting it. But it was entirely predictable what the main thrust of any article was going to be. Shunned, de-funded and attacked – in no particular order. And I will, in later articles. With thousands dying. It is a swamp.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A recent systematic review and meta-analysis examined a range of commonly used supplements and whether they improved cardiovascular risk factors like blood pressure and cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and stroke. Heart attacks (Myocardial infarctions) were reduced by 15%, and coronary artery disease was reduced by 14%.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It emerged that Barney Calman was very keen to find case histories where people had stopped taking statins and then suffered a catastrophic event, such as a heart attack or stroke, or dying. This ‘ stopping statins and dying’ concept was pretty much central to the articles. Or were they behind everything that snowballed.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

MARCH 6, 2025

They include the knowledge that blood does not circulate round the body, that Miasma causes infectious diseases, and the absolute requirement for strict bed rest following a heart attack. To name the first three that spring to mind. I am thinking more Ebola here. They float around us, unknown and in important ways unknowable.

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