Fri.Aug 25, 2023

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Cassling Adds New Role, Hires Brian Bradfield as Chief Operating Officer

Cassling

Bradfield joins a leadership team dedicated to strengthening community healthcare across the country and touching 350 million patient lives by the end of the decade. Omaha, Neb. (August 25, 2023) — Cassling, an imaging and therapeutic technology, services and solutions vendor, welcomes Brian Bradfield as Chief Operating Officer. As COO of Cassling, Brian Bradfield will be responsible for ensuring the organization’s service, operations and strategy are in constant alignment with customers’ needs

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Cluster of slightly unhealthy traits linked with earlier heart attack and stroke

Science Daily - Stroke

Middle-aged adults with three or more unhealthy traits including slightly high waist circumference, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose have heart attacks and strokes two years earlier than their peers, according to new research.

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Association between implanted cardioverter-defibrillators and mortality for patients with left ventricular ejection fraction between 30% and 35%

Open Heart

Background Consensus guidelines support the use of implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death in patients with either non-ischaemic or ischaemic cardiomyopathy with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤35%. However, evidence from trials for efficacy specifically for patients with LVEF near 35% is weak.

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Half as many AF patients dying of heart attacks and strokes in the UK now

Science Daily - Stroke

Patients living with one of the UK's most common heart rhythm conditions are 50% less likely to die from a heart attack or stroke than they were at the start of the millennium, analysis of 70,000 newly diagnosed AF patients' health records has shown.

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Association of epicardial and intramyocardial fat with ventricular arrhythmias

HeartRhythm

Among patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and nonischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM), myocardial fibrosis is associated with an increased risk for ventricular arrhythmia (VA). Growing evidence suggests that myocardial fat contributes to ventricular arrhythmogenesis. However, little is known about the volume and distribution of epicardial adipose tissue and intramyocardial fat and their relationship with VAs.

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Relating Lipoprotein(a) Concentrations to Cardiovascular Event Risk After Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Comparison of Three Tests

Circulation

Circulation, Ahead of Print. Background:Lipoprotein(a) is a risk factor for cardiovascular events and modifies the benefit of pcsk9 inhibitors (pcsk9i). Lipoprotein(a) concentration can be measured with immunoassays reporting mass or molar concentration or a reference measurement system employing mass spectrometry. Whether the relationships between lipoprotein(a) concentrations and cardiovascular events in a high-risk cohort differ across lipoprotein(a) methods is unknown.