Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

AUGUST 15, 2024

Study reveals how movies perpetuate misconceptions about heart attacks, with limited representation of women and people of color, potentially impacting public

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 14, 2025

Despite guideline recommendation changes, some patients are still taking a daily dose of aspirin for prevention of heart attack or stroke, according to a Jan. 13 The Washington Post report.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Published results of a large, national heart attack study show that patients with a life-threatening complication known as cardiogenic shock survived at a significantly higher rate when treated with a protocol developed by cardiologists at Henry Ford Health, in collaboration with 80 hospitals nationwide.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 14, 2025

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in people experiencing a heart attack is a time-dependent medical emergency requiring immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport (Miss.) reported the highest Medicare payment of $38,459 for heart attack care between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data published Oct.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MARCH 13, 2025

Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor had the lowest heart attack readmission ratio between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data published Feb.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 21, 2025

hospitals meet the national average of mortality and payment rates used to calculate value of care for heart attack patients, according to CMS data published Oct. The majority of U.S. 30, 2024.

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DAIC

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ruff, MD, MPH, senior investigator of TIMI Group and director General Cardiology, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Patient Demographics: Patients on APT had a higher rate of coronary artery disease (70% vs. 42%), previous heart attacks (36% vs. 16%), and peripheral artery disease (15% vs. 11%). vs 4.6%).

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 10, 2024

A new study shows that women lose more years of life after a heart attack than men. A 50-year-old woman with a large heart attack loses an average of 11 years, while an 80-year-old man with a small heart attack loses an average of 5 months of life.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 7, 2025

ban on smoking in public housing led to a reduction in hospitalizations for cardiovascular problems.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University has designed a chip capable of diagnosing heart attacks within minutes, according to a study published Oct. 15 in Advanced Science.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JUNE 10, 2024

A new study by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reveals an important step to help the human heart regenerate after myocardial infarction (MI).

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American Heart News - Heart News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Research Highlights: In a study of patients in a hospital in Taiwan, artificial intelligence technology paired with electrocardiogram testing reduced the time to diagnose and transfer people with heart attacks to the cardiac catheterization laboratory.

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DAIC

JUNE 6, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 06/06/2024 - 21:44 June 6, 2024 — A new, robotic approach to heart bypass surgery is now being offered to patients at University Hospitals ( UH ) with great success. Surgeons manipulate the robotic arms to perform surgery while viewing magnified images from the camera on a console screen.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JUNE 6, 2024

A low-calorie sweetener could be linked to nearly twice the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people who consume high levels of it, CNN reported June 6.

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Cassling

JULY 8, 2024

This common phrase is well-known to healthcare providers in the ED who have been called upon to treat a heart attack. The longer you take to stabilize the heart, the higher the risk of long-term damage to the patient’s heart.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A team at Allina Health’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital has successfully completed the first Barostim Baroreflex Activation Therapy implant in the state of Minnesota, according to an announcement from CVRx, Inc. We value our collaboration with them and commend their ongoing efforts to advance the treatment of heart failure symptoms.”

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A 50-year-old lady was admitted to my hospital with crushing chest tightness. She had an ECG which suggested changes in keeping with a lack of blood getting to the heart. Troponins are enzymes released from the heart when the heart has been damaged. I’ll try and explain this a bit better by using a case study.

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DAIC

APRIL 22, 2024

(RCE) is an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) based medical technology company dedicated to early heart attack detection. The insights lead us towards refining our understanding of the transdermal signals and our approach towards developing improved heart attack diagnostics.”

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Deprescribing antihypertensive medication is not associated with the risk for hospitalization for myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke in long-term care residents, according to a study published online Nov. 25 in JAMA Network Open.

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DAIC

JUNE 4, 2024

fold higher risk for major adverse cardiac events (MACE) Caristo's AI-Risk model, CaRi-Heart Risk Score, outperformed other scores in routine clinical use for prediction of cardiac mortality, and when presented to clinicians, resulted in changes of management decision in 45% of the patients. "The fold higher risk for cardiac mortality and 5.5-fold

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Researchers at the NCH Rooney Heart Institute in Naples, Fla., are leaning on a new therapeutic treatment for "widow-maker" heart attacks: supersaturated oxygen therapy.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A recent clinical trial reveals how a daily statin pill may prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with HIV.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

"Discover the top cardiologists and cardiology teams making headlines in 2025, from treating a hospital president's heart attack to groundbreaking medical achie

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DAIC

APRIL 7, 2024

adults—and more than 2 in 5 adults aged 60 years and older—have elevated triglycerides, also known as hypertriglyceridemia , putting them at an increased risk for heart attacks and stroke. milla1cf Sun, 04/07/2024 - 18:20 April 7, 2024 — An estimated 1 in 5 U.S.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Coronary artery calcium scores can accurately assess cardiovascular risk for both men and women, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions Nov.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A study based on clinical trial data found higher risks of stroke, heart attack, and hospital admission for heart failure in older cancer survivors. In the analysis published in the journal Cancer, chemotherapy was also linked to elevated rates of these conditions.

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Heart Sisters

AUGUST 6, 2023

The freshly-diagnosed heart patient often staggers from the shock of being hospitalized to the shock of being discharged before feeling ready to return home.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MARCH 11, 2025

Traditionally, cardiovascular risk factors and overall risk of heart attack or stroke are grouped together for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations but that method hides important variations in risk factor prevalence and disease burden, a recent study found.

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MIBHS

JANUARY 15, 2025

Increased Blood Clot Risk: Smoking enhances the bloods clotting tendency, raising the risk of heart attacks and strokes. These factors contribute to a host of cardiovascular problems, including coronary artery disease, heart failure, and arrhythmias, making smokers significantly more vulnerable to heart-related illnesses.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It is one of only two New Jersey hospitals offering the trial to patients. Many patients with symptoms of mitral regurgitation are not candidates for open heart surgery due to their advanced age or competing comorbidities, nor are they candidates for the only alternative, the MitraClip device.

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DAIC

JUNE 4, 2024

Stroke recovery is a challenging process that extends for months after hospital discharge. I had had a heart attack previously. I know the nurse explained my medications to me at the hospital. In the hospital, I could show I could give myself an injection so that I could take anticoagulants at home.

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Heart Sisters

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Should paramedics tell heart patients to get up and walk from their ambulance into the Emergency Department?

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A lot of our approaches in stroke treatment were learned from how we treat heart attacks. Research Highlights - Although giving blood thinners along with clot-busting medication may help in treating heart attacks, it did not improve 90-day outcomes in people with clot-caused strokes. Adeoye, M.D., Louis, Missouri. “A

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A negative correlation was found between low ECHAS score and prolonged symptom onset to hospital arrival time for MI-like symptoms (r = -0.21, p < 0.05). The sensitivity to identify patients who were admitted for possible MI or stroke was 1.0. Patients found ECHAS to be very useable (Fig 1).Conclusion:The

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DAIC

OCTOBER 4, 2024

2, 2024 — Eko Health recently announced a new independent study from researchers at Imperial College London (Imperial) that demonstrated how AI can identify patients with significantly higher risk of experiencing major adverse cardiac events (MACE), including heart attacks and heart failure.

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Science Daily - Stroke

AUGUST 7, 2023

a child with risk factors for heart disease (high blood pressure, overweight, etc.) This is precious time that could be spent managing their conditions to help them avoid having a heart attack or stroke at a young age. Today in the U.S., A new study from Northwestern University and the Ann & Robert H.

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