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Fasting Before Cardiac Catheterization May Be Unnecessary

DAIC

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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Epidemiology of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in polygenic hypercholesterolemia with or without high lipoprotein(a) levels

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

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

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Healthcare Access and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Management Among Working-Age US Adults During the Pandemic

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

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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Circulating biomarkers associated with aortic diameter in male and female patients with thoracic aortic disease: a cross-sectional study

Open Heart

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