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Pulse pressure and aortic valve peak velocity as new predictors of heart failure in patients post-myocardial infarction

Heart BMJ

Common predictors include older age, prior hypertension, diabetes and atrial fibrillation. Heart failure (HF) is one of the significant complications in patients with myocardial infarction (MI), leading to increased risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. HFrEF is more commonly.

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AFib Might Be Far More Common Than We Think

CardiacWire

A JACC study suggests that atrial fibrillation is far more prevalent than many previously thought, estimating that nearly one in 20 American adults have been diagnosed with the disease. That increase was greatest among younger patients, males, minorities, and patients with hypertension and diabetes. adult population.

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Calpain inhibition takes center stage against atrial fibrillation in the diabetic heart

HeartRhythm

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%

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Challenges in the Cardiovascular Evaluation and Management of Patients With Obesity

American College of Cardiology

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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Multimorbidity Is Associated With Symptom Severity and Disease Progression in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation—Data From the RACE V Study

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundMultimorbidity is common among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and is associated with worse outcomes. Multimorbidity was defined as 2 comorbidities (heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, kidney dysfunction, moderate or severe mitral valve regurgitation, or obesity).

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Forecasting the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in the United States Through 2050—Prevalence of Risk Factors and Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

Circulation

We projected through 2050, overall and by age and race and ethnicity, accounting for changes in disease prevalence and demographics.RESULTS:We estimate that among adults, prevalence of hypertension will increase from 51.2% Diabetes (16.3% to 6.4%), atrial fibrillation (1.7% in 2020 to 61.0% to 26.8%) and obesity (43.1%

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Polygenic Risk and Cardiovascular Event Risk in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation With Low to Intermediate Stroke Risk

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundThe clinical utility of the polygenic risk score in predicting cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) has not yet been established. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print.