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A smartphone-guided secondary prevention digital health application reduces systolic blood pressure in patients with chronic coronary syndrome and insufficient blood pressure control

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Therefore, optimal secondary prevention includes managing BP through lifestyle changes and pharmacological therapy. Several modifiable risk factors, including increased blood pressure (BP), significantly contribute to cardiovascular risk in CCS. This observation was consistent in patients with systolic BP 130mmHg at baseline.

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Consensus statement—graft treatment in cardiovascular bypass graft surgery

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Composite grafting, pharmacological agents as well as latest minimal invasive techniques aim in the same direction. To give guide and set standards all graft related topics for CABG are presented in this expert opinion document on graft treatment.

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Does this T wave pattern mean anything?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This may result from fluctuations in heart rate or in nervous system activity or from pharmacologic treatment. Conduction and Refractoriness Alternans — entails variance of impulse propagation along some par t of the conduction system.

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Changing Landscape of Cardiovascular Diagnosis | Google AI

Wellnest

Alun Hughes, professor of Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology at London’s UCL, said Google’s approach sounded credible because of the “long history of looking at the retina to predict cardiovascular risk.” It is only slightly lower than the commonly used blood test method, which has an accuracy rate of 72%.

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Irbesartan and Emodin on Myocardial Remodeling in Goldblatt Hypertensive Rats

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Objective: Interactions between the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) have been well documented. The aim was to explore the effect of irbesartan combining with emodin on myocardial remodeling in goldblatt (2K-1C) hypertensive rats.

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A woman in her 20s with syncope

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This patient was reported to have distant heart sounds but was not hypotensive and did not have JVD according to documentation. This may result from fluctuations in heart rate or in nervous system activity or from pharmacologic treatment. Beck’s triad only happens all 3 together in approximately 1/3rd of patients.

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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Document in the patient's chart that rapid infusion is intentional in response to life-threatening hypokalemia." Crit Care Med 1991; 19:694) Concentrated Potassium Chloride Infusions in Critically Ill Patients with Hypokalemia The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. "If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e.,

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