Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A gut microbial metabolite called 2-methylbutyrylcarnitine (2MBC) plays a role in exacerbating thrombosis—the formation of blood clots—researchers report February 23 in the journal Cell Metabolism. The results also revealed that 2MBC is accumulated in individuals with COVID-19, potentially explaining why these patients are at increased risk of thrombosis.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Galantamine sold as prescription generic drugs was labeled accurately and free of contamination, but galantamine sold as dietary supplements was not, an analysis showed. Across 10 brands of dietary supplements, the actual quantity.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A new study found patients with Parkinson’s disease have a lower daytime light exposure with a mean light intensity of 201.1 lux than controls with a light intensity of 337.7 lux.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Certain genes associated with hypertension affect blood pressure from early in life, and they increase the risk of cardiovascular disease as you get older. But you can do something about it.

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Blood Pressure Cardiovascular Disease Hypertension 111

DAIC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The DAIC team has learned of the passing of Alain Cribier, MD, FACC, heralded as the man who pioneered the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in 2002, as well as the first transcatheter mitral commissurotomy in 1995 and the first balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1986. He passed away Feb. 16, 2024 at the age of 79. Cribier obtained his medical degree from the University of Paris, where he completed his early residency training.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This February the intersection of American Heart Health Month and Black History Month underscores the deeply profound and layered legacy of health inequality in America—which, sadly, persists to this day. Black History Month is a poignant backdrop to the alarming rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes, particularly among those of marginalized populations.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 02/23/2024 - 11:54 February 23, 2024 — Cleerly , the company creating a new standard of care to aid in the diagnosis of heart disease, announced that its recently U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA )-cleared Cleerly ISCHEMIA software device applied to a non-invasive coronary CT angiogram ( CCTA ) can be billed using the new Category I CPT code 75580.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- NBA champion and "Survivor" contestant Scot Pollard is "awake and feeling great" a day after a heart transplant, his wife said Saturday on social media. "Scot has a new heart!" Dawn Pollard posted Friday night on X, formerly.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When people hear about predicting heart disease, most will think of cholesterol levels. While cholesterol is a major contributor to heart disease, a recent study from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of Mass General Brigham, found that a glycan biomarker of IgG is also an important predictor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

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Cassling

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

First and only FDA-cleared, multi-vendor remote scanning software Enables remote scanning and support for up to three scanners simultaneously Addresses technologist shortage and standardizes care across sites Siemens Healthineers has announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of syngo Virtual Cockpit , a private, secure communication platform for real-time image visualization, acquisition, and collaboration between healthcare professionals across multiple sites.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Whether distributions and prognostic values of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) T and I are different across normoglycemic, prediabetic, and diabetic populations is unknown.

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Diabetes Research 98

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are a common treatment for patients with a wide variety of cardiovascular conditions. DOACs are the preferred treatment over vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) for many patients with atrial fibrillation or venous thromboembolism since the latter would have a higher risk of intracranial bleeding and a more complex dosing routine.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Insulin resistance (IR) is associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) severity. However, its underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Therefore, our study aimed to explore the relationship between IR.

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Coronary Artery Disease Research 95

HCPLive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Worse examination-based and self-reported vision impairment was associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms among adults aged ≥65 years.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Exercise has long been recognized by clinicians, scientists and public health officials as an important way to maintain health throughout a person's lifespan. It improves overall fitness, helps build strong muscles and bones, reduces the risk of chronic disease, improves mood and slows physical decline.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

b/tsDMARD treatment led to a mean relative improvement of 41% for total work productivity in patients with psoriatic arthritis.

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Heart BMJ

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Echocardiography is a vital first-line imaging tool for the diagnosis and management of many cardiovascular diseases. Its availability and low cost have encouraged widespread use by clinicians for the diagnosis and management of patients with heart failure. 1 Visual estimation is widely used to assess ejection fraction (EF), the percentage of blood the left ventricle pumps out during a contraction.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. BackgroundRheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a devastating yet preventable condition that disproportionately affects low‐middle–income countries and indigenous populations in some high‐income countries. Various preventive interventions have been implemented across the globe, but evidence for the effectiveness of these measures in reducing the incidence or prevalence of acute rheumatic fever and RHD is scattered.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It's only about the size of your fist. Yet it pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood throughout your body every day. If you could stretch out the complex network of blood vessels in your body through which your heart pumps oxygen and nutrients, it would extend over 60,000 miles.

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The New England Journal of Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Collaborators from Massachusetts General Hospital, Community Servings, and the University of North Carolina provide medically tailored meals for people with chronic illness and food insecurity.

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European Journal of Heart Failure

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Cardiogenic shock is a primary cardiac disorder that results in both clinical and biochemical evidence of tissue hypoperfusion and can lead to multi-organ failure and death depending on its severity. Inadequate cardiac contractility or cardiac power secondary to acute myocardial infarction remains the most frequent cause of cardiogenic shock, although its contribution has declined over the past two decades, compared with other causes.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Aesop's fable of the wolf in sheep's clothing encourages us to look beneath the exterior appearance of a situation and evaluate the truth that lies beneath. This concept should be applied when managing older patients with severe aortic stenosis. This population of patients is increasingly being identified as having concomitant cardiac amyloidosis, which is an underrecognized cause of common cardiac conditions.

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Heart BMJ

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Significant secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR) has increasing prevalence with age, it is associated with impaired quality of life, and it is an independent predictor of patients’ morbidity and mortality. Although the association of right ventricular (RV) function with outcome has been reported in patients with STR, 1 2 the role of the right atrial (RA) geometry and function remains to be elucidated.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Objective We aimed to assess the effect of SGLT2i on arrhythmias by conducting a meta-analysis using data from randomized controlled trials(RCTs). Background Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) have shown cardioprotective effects via multiple mechanisms that may also contribute to decrease arrhythmias risk. Methods We searched in databases (PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and clinicaltrials.gov) up to April 2023.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The MANDARA trial results, published in NEJM, show benralizumab's noninferiority to mepolizumab in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, with potential for oral glucocorticoid discontinuation.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Introduction The presence of non-coronary atherosclerosis (NCA) in patients with coronary artery disease is associated with a poor prognosis. We have studied whether NCA is also a predictor of poorer outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Materials and methods This is an observational study involving 567 consecutive patients who underwent CABG.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

These findings, to be presented at AAAAI, may help to expand upon clinicians’ awareness of the mechanics of air pollution’s effect on asthma.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Last year, I asked whether you would be interested in a course that would help you prevent heart disease. The overwhelming response was yes. It has taken a LONG time, but it is almost here. The course is a product of over a decade's worth of research on the best approaches to preventing heart disease, with the biggest emphasis being on lifestyle measures.

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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What is the incidence of the embolic and bleeding complications in relation to pre- and post- periprocedure antithrombotic regimens in patients undergoing ventricular arrhythmia radiofrequency ablation (RFA)?

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

All patients who received an HCV+ organ achieved SVR12 and had lower rates of rejection and chronic lung allograft dysfunction compared to uninfected donor organ recipients.

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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What is the prevalence of subclinical atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), and how does it impact outcomes?

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Infiltration of the myocardium with various cell types, cytokines and chemokines plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathies including inflammatory cardiomyopathies and myocarditis. A more comprehensive understanding of the precise immune mechanisms involved in acute and chronic myocarditis is essential to develop novel therapeutic approaches.

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Cardiomyopathy 81

American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What is the performance of coronary intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in calcified coronary lesions in a real-life, all-comers, setting?

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The New England Journal of Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Working with the community, Ohio State University clinician–scientists curated trusting relationships that facilitated recruitment and retention of Black Americans in a clinical trial.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This analysis, to be presented at AAAAI, suggests that adolescents’ attendance of daycare may lead to decreased IgE levels and diminished food and aeroallergen sensitization rates.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Current literature is deficient in robust evidence delineating the correlation between the triglyceride glucose-body mass index (TyG-BMI) and the incidence of stroke. Consequently, this investigation seeks to.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This publication was developed independently by MJH Life Sciences Global Medical Affairs. Support for the thought leaders meeting and the publication was provided by Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc; The Bristol Myers Squibb Company; Janssen Global Services, LLC; and UCB, Inc.

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