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APRIL 11, 2024

These new findings suggest that people with high-risk plaques that are likely to rupture could benefit from the procedure as a pre-emptive measure rather than waiting for a heart attack or other severe reduction in blood flow to occur. During PCI, an operator inserts a stent into a blocked artery through a catheter in the groin or arm.

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APRIL 7, 2024

Akshay Desai, MD “Compared to placebo, a single injection of zilebesiran resulted in clinically meaningful reductions in blood pressure at three months when added to commonly used antihypertensive treatments,” said Akshay Desai, MD, MPH , a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a study coauthor. “In

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

That’s the subject of a new study by a team that includes two USF Health doctors who reported their findings in Circulation , the flagship journal of the American Heart Association. “An Wang’s research lab, which recently relocated to USF from Harvard Medical School where he was a professor working at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

3 Patients with ASCVD are at a higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) including heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cardiovascular (CV) death.4 Nearly 20% of those people who have had a MI will be hospitalized again within five years due to a second event.5 4 In the U.S.

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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).

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