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Understanding the Difference Between Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest

MIBHS

Unlike a heart attack, cardiac arrest is an electrical malfunction that causes the heart to stop beating suddenly. Without immediate intervention, sudden cardiac death can occur within minutes. This results in a failure to pump blood to the brain and other vital organs.

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

DAIC

Inflammation driven by signaling cytokines, circulating immune cells, adhesion molecules, and oxidized low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) leads to atherosclerotic plaque development, plaque progression, and eventual rupture.14,15 21 Luckily, each of these risks can be measured by simple blood tests. N Engl J Med.

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What kind of AV block is this? And why does she develop Ventricular Tachycardia?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Other than being overweight and having an elevated cholesterol she was healthy. The granulomatous inflammation affects the heart, causing an infiltrative cardiomyopathy The most common manifestations of cardiac sarcoidosis are atrioventricular (AV) block and ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT). There was no chest pain.

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The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

Dr. Anish Koka

Discovering discrepancies in a major published trial from the pharma-academic complex would be a boost to those seeking to force trial data to be public, and that is exactly what a group of investigators attempted to do with a major cholesterol lowering trial published in 2017. Cholesterol lowering is big business. billion dollars.