Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

“Cholesterol does not cause heart disease.“ “Cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease” The argument goes like this. “If cholesterol causes heart disease, why is it that about half of all patients with a heart attack have normal cholesterol? Cholesterol is an essential part of the story.

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Cholesterol Heart Disease Heart attacks Heart Attack 114

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We aim to evaluate whether BMI will affect the lipid-lowing effects of statins in patients with T2DM.MethodsIn this retrospective analysis, we screened T2DM patients who were prescribed statins and underwent a 1-year outpatient follow-up recorded in the electronic medical record system.

BMI 52

BMI Diabetes Obesity Outpatient 52

DAIC

JANUARY 4, 2024

Patients were randomly assigned to one of two protocol groups, with 100 patients allowed to eat a specified diet of solid food low in fat, cholesterol, sodium and acidity until the scheduled procedure. The convenience sample included 197 adult patients scheduled for elective cardiac catheterization with conscious sedation and analgesia.

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Diet Critical Care Inpatient RN 105

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

JANUARY 27, 2025

After acute HF, HF nurses provide home care suggestions based on oedema status assessed at outpatient clinics. Multisegmented and multifrequency BIA-derived EIs were measured at HF nurse outpatient clinics after discharge for 6 months. Methods and results This was a retrospective cohort study.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 21, 2024

Methods Retrospective analysis of demographics, risk factors, vascular events, therapy, and lipid profile in outpatient clinical data. In spite of a similar reduction of LDL cholesterol, vascular events occurred more frequently, and approximately 7 years earlier ( P  = 0.024) in patients with H-Lpa than in H-LDL (HR 1.96

Cardiovascular Disease 45

Cardiovascular Disease Peripheral Arterial Disease Coronary Artery Disease Cerebrovascular Disease 45

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

0.98]) and cholesterol testing (RR 0.93 [0.91-0.96]) However, routine outpatient visits and cardiovascular risk factor screening did not return back to pre-pandemic levels, while risk factor treatment remained stable. However, routine visits (RR 0.96 [0.94-0.98]) 1.08]) remained stable. Treatment for hypertension (RR 1.05 [1.02-1.08])

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Risk Factors Medicaid COVID-19 Outpatient 40

Open Heart

JUNE 29, 2023

Methods In this cross-sectional study, consecutive adult patients with a thoracic aortic diameter ≥40 mm and/or genetically proven hereditary TAD (HTAD) visiting our specialised outpatient clinic between 2017 and 2020 were prospectively included. When adjusted for age, sex, hyperlipidaemia and HTAD, total cholesterol (1.10 (95% CI 0.27

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