Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background:Clinical studies on atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after catheter ablation in patients diagnosed with patent foramen ovale (PFO) and paroxysmal AF (PAF) are scarce. The constructed nomogram included four clinical variables: age, diabetes mellitus, lipoprotein (a), and right ventricular diameter.

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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).

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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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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:The transitional period from hospital discharge to the community for stroke survivors is a vulnerable time as patients navigate healthcare systems with their new impairments. The intervention group had a significantly lower rate of 1 year hospital readmission due to any cause (62.1% vs 69.3%, p=0.04).

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Multivariate regression revealed that patients with anleft atrial LA diameter of > 4& cm (AOR 2.531, P = 0.003), patients who did not take B-blockers before surgery (AOR 1.1

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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.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Data was obtained from the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) enterprise-wide database from January 2020 to September 2023 using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM).

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:Effective care transition for ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke patients post-hospital discharge is critical. Ensuring a follow-up neurology appointment within two weeks is vital to managing stroke risk factors like hypertension, diabetes, and atrial fibrillation.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Exclusion criteria were pregnancy, lactation, intracerebral hemorrhage, atrial fibrillation, left ventricular clot, and cardioembolic stroke. Significant associations were found between recurrent ischemic events and hypertension (p=0.001), diabetes (p=0.033), and smoking (p=0.001). Data were collected from medical records.

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Circulation: Heart Failure

MARCH 8, 2024

Background:Current prevalence estimates of heart failure (HF) are primarily based on self-report or HF hospitalizations. The prevalence of HF risk factors was high: hypertension, 61.9%; former or current smoking, 53.7%; obesity 34.8%; diabetes; 24.7%; and chronic kidney disease; 22%. Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We aimed to examine the prevalence of VRFs and temporal trends in VRF burden among young patients presenting with IS.Methods:Data was prospectively collected by Get With the Guidelines-Stroke® hospitals participating in the Florida Stroke Registry between January 2010 and December 2022.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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). Patients were classified into three groups based on the number of comorbidities: 0, 1–2, or ≥3.

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

CT scan before discharge showed mild improvement in ventricular size and stable SAH blood products.The course of hospitalization was complicated by hyponatremia, atrial fibrillation, and respiratory failure with inability to wean off ventilator, resulting in tracheostomy and gastrostomy tube placement.

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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. Episodes always occurred after activity and only upon sitting.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Case submitted and written by Mazen El-Baba MD, with edits from Jesse McLaren and edits/comments by Smith and Grauer A 90-year old with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, presented with acute onset chest/epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 6, 2025

In-hospital mortality was defined as a Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of 6 point. Multifactorial logistic regression analyses using fully adjusted models, demonstrated that the SII is independently associated with the risk of in-hospital death. Notably, the combined model outperformed the SII alone (P<0.05).

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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. EAST-AFNET 4 trial had 2789 patients with early atrial fibrillation and cardiovascular conditions [8]. years of follow up per patient.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Objective Red cell distribution width (RDW) and serum calcium (Ca) levels are predictors of in-hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. Therefore, this study aimed to determine whether the RDW to Ca ratio (RCR) acquired on admission can be used to predict the in-hospital mortality of AMI patients.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We collected blood from each patient at hospital admission before administering any therapeutic intervention. After adjusting for age, sex, diabetes, and coronary artery disease in the multivariable analysis, we identified 53 top proteins independently associated with AFib in stroke patients (adjusted p&lt;0.05) (Figure 2).

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The Beat Blog

MAY 2, 2023

I’ve worked with hospitals, provider groups and payers – trying to help drive the right type of access, care, and value across the healthcare continuum. 1 That problem is exacerbated by the lack of access to acute care: Since 2011, two-thirds of the hospital closures in the U.S. have been in rural areas.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Written by Magnus Nossen The patient in today's case is a male in his 70s with hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus. The rhythm now is atrial fibrillation. He was later transferred back to his local hospital neurologically intact and without serious sequela. In the initial ECG (ECG# 1) aVR had ST elevation.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Researchers analyzed more than 145 million records covering every adult patient admitted to hospital in England over a nine-year period to establish the risk of long-term health outcomes following a heart attack -- in the largest study of its kind.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Association between clusters and the composite of (i) heart failure hospitalization or all-cause death, (ii) cardiovascular (CV) hospitalization or all-cause death, and (iii) major adverse CV events was assessed. Finally, the reproducibility of the results of cluster analysis is tested in an external cohort (validation set).

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DAIC

JUNE 26, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Wed, 06/26/2024 - 18:59 June 26, 2024 — Semaglutide , a medication initially developed for type 2 diabetes and obesity, significantly improves symptoms in men and women with a common type of heart failure that has had few therapeutic options.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, the short-term risk of stroke, particularly within 90 days of hospitalization, has not been thoroughly evaluated on a national scale. Significant interactions were observed with age, sex, hypertension, and atrial fibrillation (Figure).Conclusions:In 1.99, p &lt; 0.001). 1.23, p=0.846).

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

ARIES-HM3 Subgroup Analysis: Nir Uriel, MD (USA) presented findings from a subgroup analysis of ARIES-HM3, showing that avoiding aspirin in newly implanted HeartMate 3 LVAD patients with atrial fibrillation, diabetes, and obesity significantly reduces non-surgical bleeding events at one year while maintaining safety.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Adjusted analyses (Cox proportional hazard ratios) illustrate a higher risk of heart failure hospitalization (HFH) and all-cause mortality (ACM) after a median follow-up of 18months in patients with heart failure and iron deficiency (ID) as assessed by transferrin saturation (TSAT) <20% and iron 13 mol/L.

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Hypertension was a common co‐morbidity in half of the population, also diabetes and atrial fibrillation were existing in 1/3 of cases. The mean age was 65 with a male to female ratio of 6:5. On long term follow‐up at 90 days post ictus, 24% (n=14) had favorable outcome of MRS 0‐2.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Patient- and hospital-level characteristics were analyzed. Outcomes included favorable disposition (discharged to home) and in-hospital mortality.Results:Among 68,975 of stroke MT with recorded NIHSS during the study period (51.1% In-hospital mortality occurred in 17.1% women; mean age, 69.1 [SD, of MT with stenting versus 32.3%

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

mg/kg) were reviewed from 21 hospitals in a large integrated health system between November 2020 to December 2023. of patients, followed by diabetes (58%), hyperlipidemia (55%), atrial fibrillation (20%), and history of stroke (18%). Results:The mean age of the 195 cases was 75.4 (SD SD = 13.46).

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Factors considered in analysis include patient age, sex, geographic region, Medicaid dual eligibility, disability status prior to age 65, comorbidities, admission length of stay, discharge disposition, and hospital characteristics. 1.378]), and heart failure (1.282 [95%CI, 1.25‐1.315]).ConclusionPatient

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We used a mixed effects linear regression model to examine the relationship between DTD group and length of stay, controlling for age, race, sex, last known well to arrival time, initial NIHSS, atrial fibrillation, and alcohol/drug abuse and clustering by hospital site.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

SDOH exposures included income bracket, educational attainment, marital status, race, and religion.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 15, 2023

Just for clarity, type 2 diabetes is when insulin resistance progresses to the point that your body can no longer keep your blood glucose levels under control. So if you have type 2 diabetes, you, by definition, are insulin resistant. Assessing fasting insulin can be tricky and often needs to be done in a major hospital lab setting.

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Additionally, CM‐HF patients had higher rates of medical comorbidities such as atrial fibrillation (43.6% 24.2%, p &lt; 0.001), diabetes mellitus (39.7% 44.9%, p &lt; 0.001) and short‐term hospitalization (2.8% Compared to matched cohorts, CM‐HF patients were more likely to be younger (age &lt;80: 22.4%

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European Journal of Heart Failure

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The association of GLS with the risk of incident major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE; composite of incident myocardial infarction, incident heart failure [HF], hospitalization for atrial fibrillation, coronary revascularization, and all-cause death), and incident HF or death were assessed with adjusted Cox proportional hazards models.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Methodology:The HFrEF patients’ data were prospectively evaluated during the initial assessment and those hospitalized, and subseguently followed for at least 12months. Sex, age and racial/ethnic disparities, in-hospital management, follow-ups, health status and 1year mortality were assessed.

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