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Ezetimibe Plus Statins Equals Better Outcomes

CardiacWire

Digging through decades of data from PubMed, Embase, and ClinicalTrials.gov, researchers pooled all relevant articles published through June 2024 (108k patients) and found that a combination lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) of statins plus ezetimibe led to significantly better CV outcomes compared to statin monotherapy.

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Esperion Presents New Data from CLEAR Outcomes Trial Highlighting Value of NEXLETOL

DAIC

18, 2024 — In November, Esperion presented an analysis from the CLEAR Outcomes study focused on patients with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) who were unable or unwilling to take statin medications. tim.hodson Tue, 12/03/2024 - 16:52 Nov. These data were presented at the 2024 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, in Chicago, IL.

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Cardiovascular outcomes in long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

IntroductionThere is growing evidence that patients with SARS-CoV-2 (The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) may have a variety of cardiovascular complications in the post-acute phase of COVID-19, but these manifestations have not yet been comprehensively characterized.MethodsWe performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of primary (..)

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New Tool Helps Predict Stroke Outcome with Higher Accuracy

DAIC

By integrating a real-time frailty risk score into the electronic medical record (EMR), presenting stroke severity and other variables, we can proactively identify who will benefit from immediate surgery and who may need pre-habilitating before surgery to achieve better outcomes.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. From Research to Real-World Care 🌎 Understand how AI-driven advancements are shaping personalized treatments and patient outcomes. But its impact goes far beyond research.

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Early and mid-term outcomes of transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects using double-disc occluders

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

This study aimed to evaluate the early and mid-term outcomes of transcatheter closure using a double-disc occluder device in a single-center Vietnamese cohort.MethodA prospective descriptive study was conducted at Hanoi Heart Hospital, Vietnam. Data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0.ResultsThe

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Pregnancy and cardiovascular outcomes among patients post Fontan surgery: a 25-year single-centre retrospective cohort study

Open Heart

Introduction Data on the characteristics and outcomes of pregnancy and among patients with Fontan physiology are limited. We aimed to evaluate the immediate and long-term outcomes among these patients who were followed at our centre. We examined maternal and obstetric outcomes.