Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

“What should my blood pressure be?” The answer is pretty simple, but most people get this wrong, and doing so increases their future risk of heart attack and strokes. The problem is that high blood pressure is not some obscure risk that only impacts a small percentage of the population.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 16, 2024

It is no more a moral failing to take one of these medications if you have obesity than it is to take a blood pressure-lowering medication if you have high blood pressure. The outcome in real-world circumstances is known as ‘Efficacy’ Effectiveness tells us what is possible. “See.

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MIBHS

MARCH 31, 2025

When discussing heart health, heart attacks and cardiac arrest are two terms that are often mistaken for one another. Understanding the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest can help in recognizing symptoms, seeking prompt medical care, and even saving lives. What is a Heart Attack?

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This is about estimating your near-term risk of a heart attack. In this scenario, your risk of a heart attack over the next 10 years is well under 2%. In this case, going on a statin or any other LDL cholesterol-lowering medication will reduce your risk of a heart attack by about 25%. Not zero risk.

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DAIC

APRIL 24, 2024

Eighty percent of heart attacks and strokes are preventable. partially because its key risk factor, high blood pressure, is a ‘silent killer,’ and most patients have no symptoms before their first heart attack or stroke. Yet, CVD remains the leading cause of death in the U.S.,

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 5, 2024

Primary prevention is the management of the risk factors, e.g. high blood pressure, early in life to prevent complications of the condition, i.e. coronary artery disease. This refers to all the steps necessary to reduce the odds of a subsequent event, such as a second heart attack or stroke. Secondary prevention.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 2, 2024

“What should my blood pressure be?” The US President, Franklin D Roosevelt, had his blood pressure tracked throughout his term in office, and the numbers are pretty stark. Shortly before he died, his blood pressure was measured at 350/195 mmHg 1. The answer is: It depends.

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DAIC

JANUARY 19, 2024

AVIM therapy is an investigational patented bioelectronic therapy, administered using a standard dual-chamber pacemaker, designed to immediately, substantially and persistently reduce blood pressure. This leaves a gap in the care of these patients and increases their risk for heart attack, stroke and heart failure progression.

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MIBHS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Understanding the Genetic Connection to Heart Disease Your genetic makeup plays a vital role in shaping your heart health. Genes influence various biological processes, including cholesterol metabolism, blood pressure regulation, and the strength and structure of your heart and blood vessels.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Share In addition to reductions in weight, multiple risk parameters, including blood pressure, waist circumference and lipids, also improve. The primary reason for managing risk factors is to reduce events, including heart attacks. This is no different to how we manage high LDL cholesterol or high blood pressure.

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DAIC

MAY 3, 2024

New Study Reveals 65 and Older Population Lowered Blood Pressure, Cholesterol and Weight Using Mobile Technology 2. EMPACT-MI Trial Outcomes Reported at ACC.24: 24: SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack 10. Here is a look at what DAIC viewers were reading last month: 1.

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DAIC

APRIL 8, 2024

The findings call into question the routine use of beta blockers for all patients following a heart attack, which have stood as a mainstay of care for decades. Approximately 50% of heart attack survivors do not experience heart failure. Over a median follow-up period of 3.5

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DAIC

MAY 21, 2024

A new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association , JAHA, found that Hello Heart’s digital heart health program was associated with reductions in blood pressure (BP), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and weight. Of 102,475 participants, 49.1%

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DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

A new joint guideline from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and nine other medical societies reports early diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease is essential to improve outcomes and reduce amputation risk, heart attack, stroke and death for people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

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DAIC

JANUARY 23, 2024

3 Patients with ASCVD are at a higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) including heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cardiovascular (CV) death.4 21 Luckily, each of these risks can be measured by simple blood tests. 4 In the U.S.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MAY 17, 2024

But What About Stress & Heart Disease? When stress is included in the risk factor profile for a future heart attack, it comes in third on the list after abnormal cholesterol and smoking 1. Regardless of what is driving the effect, it is clear that experiencing high levels of stress is associated with worse outcomes.

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MIBHS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Women often experience heart disease differently than men, with risk factors and symptoms that can be easily overlooked or misinterpreted. A key difference lies in how women and men experience heart attacks. Hormonal Factors : Estrogen, a protective hormone in heart health, significantly decreases during menopause.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The findings – published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology — could fuel advocacy for a paradigm shift in clinical heart health guidelines to address cardiovascular risk factors at an earlier age in childhood cancer survivors.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I do this for three reasons: There is a relationship between short sleep and worse cardiovascular outcomes. You desperately want to breathe, so you choke and gag in response, and your heart rate and blood pressure go through the roof. When a patient joins my practice, I always ask about sleep.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 20, 2023

20th October 2023 (With lessons from, and for, all other health services around the world) The Quality and Outcomes Framework The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) was to be the glittering triumph of Evidence Based Medicine. They would have their blood pressure measured and put on antihypertensives. The workload vast.

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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. It is pretty clear that athletes often show higher CACS compared to control groups, despite the fact that they have better levels of other cardiometabolic risk factors such as body weight, blood pressure, and blood lipids.

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MIBHS

DECEMBER 13, 2024

During this procedure, a surgeon creates a bypass around the blocked portions of the coronary arteries using healthy blood vessels from other parts of the body. The aim is to restore proper blood flow to the heart, alleviating symptoms like chest pain (angina) and reducing the risk of heart attacks.

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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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DAIC

MARCH 8, 2024

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved an additional indication for Wegovy ( semaglutide ) to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight along with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When they inevitably have a heart attack, the physician and the patient are often surprised, but if they had looked, they might have seen where that risk was coming from and what to have done about it. Blood Pressure Control For every 20 mmHg increase in systolic blood pressure, the risk of dying from heart attack or stroke doubles 3.

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Studies, including the MARC study, show that athletes have a higher proportion of calcified (stable) plaques and fewer mixed or non-calcified plaques, which are more prone to rupture and cause heart attacks. Family history of CAD was the most potent predictor of severe CAC. Elite endurance athletes, for instance, live 2.8–5.7

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DAIC

JANUARY 27, 2025

This national coverage analysis was initiated by CMS in response to Medtronic's request to support Medicare beneficiary access to the SymplicitySpyral renal denervation (RDN) system, used in the Symplicity blood pressure procedure. The Symplicity SpyralProcedure The Symplicity Spyral RDN system, approved by the U.S. 5 Bhatt, D.

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