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Related factors affecting misdiagnosis of aortic dissection: a single-center retrospective study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

ObjectiveAortic dissection (AD) is a life-threatening cardiovascular emergency. Delayed diagnosis frequently leads to treatment delays, elevated mortality, and complications. This study investigates the factors contributing to the misdiagnosis of AD and proposes strategies for improving its early diagnosis.MethodsA retrospective analysis of 801 patients with AD identified 219 cases for inclusion, which were split into a training set (131 cases) and a validation set (88 cases).

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Emergency Care for Cannabis Use Tied to Higher Dementia Risk

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- People that required emergency department (ED) or acute hospital care for cannabis use may have an increased risk of a subsequent dementia diagnosis, a retrospective matched cohort study of 6 million people in Canada suggested.

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Circulating bacterial DNA in cardiovascular disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a global health burden despite advances in prevention and treatment. Conventional biomarkers, while effective for a number of patient groups, fail to provide personalized diagnosis and prognosis, necessitating the exploration of novel markers. Advancements in sequencing technology have unveiled the role of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) as a reservoir of genetic information from all cells within the body, and associations between elevated cfDNA levels and CVD risk fac

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High blood pressure? Eat more bananas

Science Daily - Heart Disease

New research suggests increasing the ratio of dietary potassium to sodium intake may be more effective for lowering blood pressure than simply reducing sodium intake.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Influence of Zhigancao decoction on chronic heart failure combined with depression

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Chronic heart failure (CHF) combined with depression represents a significant clinical challenge due to the mutual exacerbation of physical and psychological symptoms. This study investigated the therapeutic effects of Zhigancao decoction, a traditional Chinese medicine, in combination with conventional Western treatments in patients with CHF and depression.

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Sleep matters: duration, timing, quality and more may affect cardiovascular disease risk

American Heart News - Heart News

Statement Highlights: While the strongest evidence exists that getting sufficient sleep (duration of sleep) is important for overall health , other components of sleep health, such as consistent bedtime, uninterrupted sleep, daytime functioning and.

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AI recreates the motion of a beating heart using surface electrical recordings

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Researchers from Rutgers Health and RWJBarnabas Health have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that transforms basic electrocardiogram (ECG) readings of electrical activity into sophisticated heart motion signals normally obtained via echocardiogram, potentially improving how heart disease is detected and monitored.

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Another Push for Upfront Ezetimibe-Statin Combo Soon After MI

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- Adding ezetimibe (Zetia) therapy to statins early after a heart attack improved outcomes, Swedish national records suggested. With statins almost universally used in this setting, people who also got upfront ezetimibe in the.

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Heart valve abnormality is associated with malignant arrhythmias, study reveals

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. This is according to a new study, "Mitral annular disjunction and mitral valve prolapse: long-term risk of ventricular arrhythmias after surgery" from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, published in the European Heart Journal.

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Sleep matters: Duration, timing, quality and more may affect cardiovascular disease risk

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Healthy sleep includes multiple components, such as number of hours of sleep per night, how long it takes to fall asleep, daytime functioning and self-reported sleep satisfaction, and addressing these different dimensions of sleep may help to reduce cardiometabolic health and related risk factors, according to a new scientific statement.

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Mathematical model demonstrates ratio of potassium to sodium intake key to regulating blood pressure

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

New research from the University of Waterloo suggests increasing the ratio of dietary potassium to sodium intake may be more effective for lowering blood pressure than simply reducing sodium intake.

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Combination of drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Patients who receive an add-on medication soon after a heart attack have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive it later, or not all, new research suggests.

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GLP-1 RAs and the Move to Combination Therapy in 2025, with Ankeet Bhatt, MD, MBA

HCPLive

Bhatt discusses his expectations for the future of cardiology in 2025, including GLP-1-RAs and the push towards combination therapy.

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Delivery Trends and Obstetric Outcomes in Patients With Fontan Circulation

American College of Cardiology

The findings of a 2023 analysis by Sobhani et al. highlight the increasing prevalence of pregnancies among patients with Fontan circulation, a population characterized by significant obstetric risk. The physiological demands of pregnancy exacerbate the unique hemodynamic challenges inherent to Fontan physiology.

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Epinephrine Tied to Greater Mortality in Pediatric Septic Shock Than Norepinephrine

HCPLive

In children with septic shock, norepinephrine as the first vasoactive agent was linked to lower 30-day mortality than epinephrine, with no renal outcome difference.

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El sueño importa: la duración, el horario, la calidad y otros factores pueden influir en el riesgo de enfermedades cardiovasculares

American Heart News - Heart News

Aspectos destacados de la declaracin: Si bien la evidencia ms slida indica que dormir lo suficiente (es decir, la duracin del sueo) es fundamental para la salud general , otros componentes del sueo, como mantener un horario constante para.

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Community-Led Research Sheds Light on AAPI Health Disparities

HCPLive

Adrienne Poon, MD, MPH, discussed early findings from a community health needs survey of AAPI populations.

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Association between systemic inflammation biomarkers and incident cardiovascular disease in 423,701 individuals: evidence from the UK biobank cohort

Cardiovascular Diabetology

The associations between systemic inflammation biomarkers and cardiovascular disease (CVD) remain not well explored. This study aimed to investigate associations between different systemic inflammation biomark.

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Low 5-ARI Use Linked to Increased Suicide Risk, Reduced Heart Disease Mortality

HCPLive

These data on 5-reductase inhibitors highlight impacts on patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia or androgenic alopecia.

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Amazon turned drivers into first responders in Europe experiment

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Amazon.com Inc. equipped some delivery vans in Europe with defibrillators to see if drivers crisscrossing residential areas could speed up aid to heart-attack victims.

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Progress in IgAN and Future Innovations in Nephrology, with Richard Lafayette, MD

HCPLive

Lafayette reflects on recent therapeutic advances in IgA nephropathy and looks ahead to other renal pipeline developments hes looking forward to in 2025.

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ACC Practice Made Perfect: Current Women Cardiologists in My Region and the Future

American College of Cardiology

In this episode, sponsored by the ACCs Women in Cardiology (WIC) Section, we explore how women around the world build their careers in cardiology.

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VERVE-102 Safely Cuts LDL-C Levels in Early Phase 1b Results

HCPLive

A single infusion of VERVE-102 gene editing therapy achieved dose-dependent lowering in blood PCSK9 and LDL-C in initial results from the Heart-2 trial.

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Sleep matters: Duration, timing, quality and more may affect cardiovascular disease risk

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Healthy sleep includes multiple components, such as number of hours of sleep per night, how long it takes to fall asleep, daytime functioning and self-reported sleep satisfaction, and addressing these different dimensions of sleep may help to reduce cardiometabolic health and related risk factors, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

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Significance of Icotrokinra Findings for Adolescents with Psoriasis, with Lawrence Eichenfield, MD

HCPLive

This segment of the latest interview with Lawrence Eichenfield, MD, features a discussion about the ICONIC-LEADa study.

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Pregnancy complications contribute to cardiovascular risk for overweight women, study finds

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Complications during pregnancy (or adverse pregnancy outcomes), like gestational diabetes and newly developed high blood pressure, act as nature's stress test and may uncover an individual's risk for heart disease later in life, according to new research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology titled "Pre-Pregnancy Adiposity, Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Midlife.

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Redefining the Doctor Visit: Evaluating AI’s Role in Clinical Decision-Making

HCPLive

Zehavi Horowitz-Kugler, MD, and Ran Shaul discussed an AI model K Health developed and evaluated in a virtual urgent care clinic.

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Repeatability and Correlation of Coronary Physiology Indices Measured With Bolus and Continuous Thermodilution

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Volume 18, Issue 4 , Page e014919, April 1, 2025. BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown weak agreement between coronary physiology indices derived from continuous and bolus thermodilution, and suggested greater variability with bolus thermodilution measurements. This study aimed to evaluate the repeatability and correlation of continuous and bolus thermodilutionderived physiology indices in cardiac transplant recipients.METHODS:Paired fractional flow r

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Alberto Augsten, PharmD, Interprets National Provider Survey on Schizophrenia, BD

HCPLive

In this Q&A, Augsten discusses treatment strategies, challenges, and non-pharmacological interventions for schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder based on recent survey findings.

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TRPV4 inhibition suppresses myocardial ischemic-reperfusion arrhythmia of mice by alleviating calcium handling abnormalities

HeartRhythm

Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4), a calcium (Ca2+) permeable channel, is upregulated during myocardial ischemia reperfusion (IR). Although TRPV4 inhibition shows cardioprotective effects, its impact on arrhythmogenesis remains unclear.

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Gaps and Knowledge in the Contemporary Management of Acute Right Ventricular Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. Acute right ventricular failure (ARVF) is commonly seen in the intensive care unit and constitutes a significant clinical challenge, with associated high in-hospital mortality. Recently, the treatment of ARVF has significantly changed, with the progressive implementation of mechanical circulatory support devices that now represent important tools for clinicians in treating this condition.

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Multidimensional Sleep Health: Definitions and Implications for Cardiometabolic Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print. Poor sleep health is associated with cardiometabolic disease and related risk factors, including heart disease, stroke, elevated blood pressure and lipid levels, inflammation, glucose intolerance, obesity, physical inactivity, poor diet, unhealthy substance use, poor mental health, and increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, and is associated with social determinants of cardiovascular health and health disparities.

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Two Years Transplant-Free Survival After LVAD Explantation in a Titin Truncating Variant Carrier With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Cardiogenic Shock

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print.

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Study Suggests Racial Disparities in Access to High-Quality Dialysis Facilities

HCPLive

Black patients disproportionately started dialysis at low-quality facilities and were less likely to have nephrologists with high-quality primary facilities.

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Relationship Between Remote, Ambulatory Pulmonary Artery Pressures, and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Hemodynamically guided management of patients with chronic heart failure (HF), using a remote, ambulatory pulmonary artery (PA) pressure monitor, has been shown to reduce mortality and morbidity. These improved outcomes were associated with a reduction in PA pressure. However, several pivotal questions remain unanswered: do systolic, diastolic, or mean PA pressures each predict all-cause mortality?

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Future Directions in the Management Atopic Dermatitis in Adult Patients

HCPLive

Panelists discuss how the future of atopic dermatitis treatments is evolving with novel biologics, Janus kinase inhibitors, and precision medicine targeting immune pathways. Advances in gene therapy, microbiome modulation, and personalized treatments offer promising long-term management options.

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