MIBHS

JULY 15, 2024

If you’ve recently experienced a heart attack, heart surgery, or been diagnosed with heart disease, your doctor has likely recommended cardiac rehabilitation. This structured approach helps strengthen your heart muscle, improves circulation, and reduces the likelihood of future heart attacks or complications.

Cardiac Rehabilitation 52

Cardiac Rehabilitation Quality of Life Heart Attack Heart attacks 52

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Background:The STRACK project aims to improve post-stroke patient management and the transition from acute to primary care thanks to improvements in patient pathways and monitoring cardiovascular risk factors: heart failure, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, dyslipidemia and hypertension.

Stroke 40

Stroke Strokes Atrial Fibrillation Risk Factors 40

Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 5, 2024

Primordial prevention is changing the environment around you so you do not develop the risk factors for heart disease and, by extension, do not get the disease early in life. This refers to all the steps necessary to reduce the odds of a subsequent event, such as a second heart attack or stroke. But does it work?

Heart Disease 119

Heart Disease Coronary Artery Disease Heart Attack Heart attacks 119

DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

A new joint guideline from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and nine other medical societies reports early diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease is essential to improve outcomes and reduce amputation risk, heart attack, stroke and death for people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

Peripheral Arterial Disease 105

Peripheral Arterial Disease Exercise Ischemia Quality of Life 105

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

The last information available is that the patient was undergoing heart transplant evaluation. Smith Major Learning Point: The worst risk factor for a bad outcome in OMI is young age because cardiologists cannot believe that a young person can have an OMI. This gets drilled into them. Was this coincidence?

Chest Pain 52

Chest Pain Aneurysm STEMI Thrombosis 52

American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

3,4 Importantly, women have numerous sex-specific risk factors in addition to non-sex-specific ones. Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy can also affect risk, based on a woman's level of cardiometabolic risk. This is one way that multidisciplinary care comes into play.

Cardiovascular Disease 43

Cardiovascular Disease Education Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors 43

Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On average, females present with heart attacks later in life. Because of these facts, females are considered to be ‘ lower risk ’ when it comes to cardiovascular disease. 30% of all heart attacks in females happen at less than 65 years of age 3. Which is true for many females. Earlier in life.

Cholesterol 52

Cholesterol Cardiovascular Disease Heart Attack Heart attacks 52