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Atrial Fibrillation Diabetes Heart Failure 
Heart BMJ
MARCH 26, 2025
Background Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is a recognised outcome in patients with myocardial infarction, although heart failure with reduced ejection fraction is more common. fold higher risk of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (95% CI 1.30 m/s had a 2.10-fold
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Heart BMJ
MARCH 26, 2025
Heart failure (HF) is one of the significant complications in patients with myocardial infarction (MI), leading to increased risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Common predictors include older age, prior hypertension, diabetes and atrial fibrillation. HFrEF is more commonly.
European Journal of Heart Failure
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Discontinuation and reinitiation of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). BMI, body mass index; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; NYHA, New York Heart Association. 1.38), a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (HR 1.24, 95% CI 1.10–1.39),
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
APRIL 1, 2025
Mechanisms and potential targets to manage atrial fibrillation related to diabetes mellitus are represented. ABSTRACT In spite of significant progress made in the management in recent decades, atrial fibrillation (AF) continues to cause increased mortality and significant morbidities, including heart failure and stroke.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
BackgroundAnemia is a common complication in patients with heart failure and is associated with left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
HeartRhythm
JANUARY 23, 2025
The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is reported to be higher than in the general population, ranging from 3.6% to 8.9 % [1].
American College of Cardiology
JANUARY 8, 2024
Obesity is a multifaceted disease that is directly and indirectly implicated in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), heart failure (HF), atrial fibrillation (AF), and multiple CVD risk factors, including dyslipidemia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), and sleep disorders.
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HeartRhythm
MARCH 12, 2024
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a public health problem that continues to grow worldwide. 1 Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, affecting more than 6 million individuals in the United States.2 In the United States the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that it affects 11.6%
All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
They have a greater prevalence of obesity, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. Higher risk of myocardial infarction, heart failure and atrial fibrillation was noted in spinal cord injury survivors compared to controls. Survivors with severe disability had the highest risk. Am J Phys Med Rehabil.
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
MARCH 3, 2025
ABSTRACT Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence remains a significant challenge in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) patients undergoing cryoballoon ablation (CBA). Secondary endpoints included all-cause mortality and heart failure (HF)-related hospitalizations.
AMS Cardiology
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Atrial fibrillation often shortened to AFib is an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm that can lead to serious health complications. In some cases, AFib can also increase the risk of stroke, blood clots and heart failure. The post How to Prevent an Atrial Fibrillation Attack appeared first on AMS Cardiology.
Journal of the American Heart Association
MARCH 21, 2025
BackgroundThe clinical utility of the polygenic risk score in predicting cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) has not yet been established. years), the incidence rates of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism, myocardial infarction, and heart failure hospitalization were 0.83, 0.42, and 0.61
Journal of the American Heart Association
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. BackgroundMultimorbidity is common among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and is associated with worse outcomes. AF symptom severity was assessed via the University of Toronto AF Severity Scale questionnaire.
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
JANUARY 9, 2025
ABSTRACT Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cause of arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy. Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), a novel class of antidiabetic drugs, have shown a promising impact in reducing cardiovascular events in diabetic and nondiabetic heart failure (HF) patients.
Circulation
JUNE 4, 2024
Diabetes (16.3% to 9.2%), heart failure (2.7% to 6.4%), atrial fibrillation (1.7% to 9.2%), heart failure (2.7% to 6.4%), atrial fibrillation (1.7% in 2020 to 61.0% to 26.8%) and obesity (43.1% to 60.6%) will increase, whereas hypercholesterolemia will decline (45.8% to 15.0%) will rise.
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Circulation
JUNE 4, 2024
The human capital approach was used to estimate productivity losses from morbidity and premature mortality due to cardiovascular conditions.RESULTS:One in 3 US adults received care for a cardiovascular risk factor or condition in 2020.
DAIC
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Getty Images milla1cf Fri, 12/08/2023 - 08:17 December 8, 2023 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA), along with several other leading medical associations, have issued a new guideline for preventing and optimally managing atrial fibrillation (AFib).
Journal of the American Heart Association
DECEMBER 29, 2023
ABSTRACTAtrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. AF increases the risk of stroke, heart failure, dementia, and hospitalization. Obesity significantly increases AF risk, both directly and indirectly, through related conditions, like hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure.
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European Journal of Heart Failure
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Development of a machine learning model to predict new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Aims Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia among patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), leading to increased symptom burden and risk of thromboembolism.
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Abstract Introduction Influence of early atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation, particularly cryoballoon ablation (CBA), on clinical outcome during long-term follow-up has not been clarified. The primary outcome was recurrence of atrial tachyarrhythmias (ATs) of ≥30-s after a 3-month blanking period. vs. 31.7%, p = 0.043).
Circulation: Heart Failure
MARCH 8, 2024
Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. Background:Current prevalence estimates of heart failure (HF) are primarily based on self-report or HF hospitalizations. Overt cardiovascular disease, which ranged from 2.1% (HF) to 13.6% (atrial fibrillation), was less common.
DAIC
JUNE 18, 2024
The last decade has seen a surge of cardiovascular risk factors such as uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, each of which raises the risks of developing heart disease and stroke," he said. "It The diabetes rate is expected to rise from 16.3% This includes a doubling of stroke rates. of the population.
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DAIC
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
24 will focus on the following three current guideline updates: American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines 2023 Atrial Fibrillation Guideline - Pharmacology II: Strokes vs. Bleeds, What Do the Guidelines Tell Us About Practical Management in A-fib? The Guidelines Sessions at ACC.24
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Specifically, this genetic factor was found to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes by 46.5%, coronary heart disease by 37.5%, ischemic stroke by 35.4%, cardiac-related mortality by 28.6%, heart failure by 28.2%, transient ischemic attack by 24%, atrial fibrillation by 15.2%, peripheral artery disease by 0.3%, and hypertension by 0.3%.
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Circulation
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Introduction:The treatment of heart failure (HF) with hydralazine-isosorbide dinitrate (H-ISDN) in African Americans (AA) with New York Heart Association (NYHA) III-IV who remain symptomatic despite optimal medical therapy is a class Ia indication.
Heart BMJ
MAY 10, 2024
Arrhythmias, and in particular atrial fibrillation (AF), are one of the greatest healthcare challenges of our time. Hospitalisation due to this condition is exponentially growing, and now outnumbers those for both heart failure and myocardial infarction.
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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a rapidly growing global health problem with increasing prevalence. Of those patients, 35.43% (n=273,993) were diabetic and 64.57% (n=151,112) were non‐diabetic. Diabetics were more likely to be younger (70.43 Among diabetics, readmitted patients were more likely to be older (71.87
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Heart BMJ
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Methods PubMed, Embase and Web of Science were searched until July 2023 for potentially relevant prospective observational and Mendelian randomisation (MR) studies investigating associations between circulating proteins and CMD, including coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and atherosclerosis.
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Open Heart
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Survival curves were performed among hospitalised patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as well as heart failure. The most common comorbidities prior to OHCA were hypertension (43.6%), heart failure (23.6%), chronic ischaemic heart disease (23.6%) and atrial fibrillation (22.0%). of the men.
Stroke Journal
JANUARY 30, 2025
AI-ECG prediction models developed at our institution can evaluate the probability of atrial fibrillation (AF) and estimate a patients age based on a normal sinus rhythm (NSR) ECG. Migraine with aura(MwA) is associated with an increased risk of stroke and adverse vascular outcomes compared to those with migraine without aura (MwoA).
ADN Center of Excellence
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
September is National Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about one of the most common yet often misunderstood heart conditions. Understanding Atrial Fibrillation Atrial Fibrillation is characterized by an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm that can lead to poor blood flow.
59 Stroke Journal
JANUARY 30, 2025
Background:The STRACK project aims to improve post-stroke patient management and the transition from acute to primary care thanks to improvements in patient pathways and monitoring cardiovascular risk factors: heart failure, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, dyslipidemia and hypertension.
40 Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
IntroductionThere is a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 in Hispanics as compared to other ethnic groups in the United States. Diabetes is a risk factor for acute ischemic stroke and also a poor predictor of outcome for many interventional surgeries. vs 45.3%, p=0.05) after adjusting for age, NIHSS, and atrial fibrillation.
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Stroke Journal
JANUARY 30, 2025
Propensity score-matched analysis (PSM) (1:1) was performed with matching for age, gender, race, BMI, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, hemoglobin level, low-density lipid (LDL) level, left ventricular ejection fraction, and various drugs including ACEi, ARBi, ARNI, beta-blockers, and diuretics. years, with 49.27% men.
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ADN Center of Excellence
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
September is National Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about one of the most common yet often misunderstood heart conditions. Understanding Atrial Fibrillation Atrial Fibrillation is characterized by an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm that can lead to poor blood flow.
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European Journal of Heart Failure
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Aims Patients with heart failure usually have several other medical conditions that might alter the effects of interventions. A prior history of the following comorbidities was considered: episodic or persistent atrial fibrillation ( n = 920), coronary artery disease ( n = 3732), diabetes ( n = 2171), and hypertension ( n = 3353).
Stroke Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Compared to White, black and Hispanic had higher rate of Diabetes, Hypertension and prior stroke (p<0.001). The rates of other risk factors (hyperlipidemia, smoking, illicit drug use, chronic heart failure, coronary artery disease, and atrial fibrillation) did not vary by race.
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DAIC
DECEMBER 19, 2023
OSA disproportionately affects the 92 million Americans living with cardiovascular disease (CVD), often goes undiagnosed (1) , and doubles the risk for heart failure and other serious cardiovascular conditions. Studies estimated that identifying and treating every patient in the U.S. billion (2). David's Medical Center.
Stroke Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
VRFs included hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, smoking, atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, heart failure, diabetes, and sleep apnea. Patients aged 18-55 with a diagnosis of IS were included and separated into two age groups: 18-35 and 36-55.
40 Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The patient underwent surgery, but suffered from a gastrointestinal bleed and developed post‐operative atrial fibrillation; after a risks/benefits discussion, he was discharged on anticoagulation only. Findings were most consistent with rotational occlusion of the left vertebral artery, which is also known as BHS.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
APRIL 7, 2025
In addition to direct hepatic complications, extra-hepatic complications, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), type 2 diabetes (T2D), gastroesophageal reflux disease, chronic kidney disease and some malignancies, are increasingly recognized.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 6, 2023
Medical history: History of Ischemic Heart Disease History of Congestive Heart Failure Diabetes Mellitus requiring treatment with insulin Pre-operative serum creatinine >2 mg/dL He had this ECG recorded: What do you think? This was interpreted as "Atrial Fibrillation". See Ken's interpretation below.
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DAIC
MARCH 25, 2025
Ten presentations will feature new data from the pivotal Phase III FINEARTS-HF cardiovascular (CV) outcomes trial, which investigated KERENDIA for treatingt adult patients with heart failure (HF) with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 40%, i.e., mildly reduced LVEF (HFmrEF) or preserved LVEF (HFpEF). Additional ACC.25
All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Rate vs Rhythm Control in Atrial Fibrillation Rate vs rhythm control as a management strategy in atrial fibrillation has been a long standing topic for debate. AF-CHF trial in those with AF and congestive heart failure also failed to show any advantage for the rhythm control strategy [3].
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