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Cardiology General

Hemodynamic Effects: Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate-Dependent Signaling

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to gather patients with severe heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and evaluated the drug mirabegron to see how it affected their hemodynamics. In this...

Right Heart Failure After Left Ventricular Device Implantation

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to explore the natural history of post- left ventricular assist device (LVAD) right heart failure (RHF) and the associated risk factors and outcomes. Patients were incl...

Diurnal Variations in Natriuretic Peptide (NP) Levels

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to hypothesize that the concentration of NP would change during the day and that this would affect how accurately they diagnosed acute heart failure. The diagnostic per...

Exercise Training in CHD Children and Adolescents

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine whether fitness training was beneficial for children and adolescents born with congenital cardiac disease. Researchers conducted an exhaustive search using...

Statin Use for Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD)

Aug 10, 2022

In the retrospective study, data from outpatient adult visits with ischemic heart disease (IHD) from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) were utilized between January 2006 and December...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) in Pediatric HT Patients

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine the prevalence of Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and its causes and effects. A retrospective investigation of all pediatric heart transplant (HT) patients tre...

Inflammatory Biomarkers & Risk of Cardiovascular Events

Aug 10, 2022

The rapid improvement of technology in recent years has made it possible to measure a greater variety of inflammatory biomarkers. It was necessary to conduct a modern analysis using well-established a...

Sodium & BP Reduction Intervention: OGS with Hypertension

Aug 10, 2022

People who have hypertension and shop for groceries online participated in a randomized controlled trial called SaltSwitch Online Grocery Shopping. For a study, researchers sought to investigate the p...

Rural Atrial Fibrillation (AF): Mobile Health Intervention

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to develop a relational agent, which was an interactive intervention based on smartphones and was accessible regardless of the user's level of digital or health literac...

Shortening the Duration of DAPT after PCI for Acute Coronary Syndrome

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to investigate the efficacy of 1 to 3 months of DAPT treatment in patients with PCI for ACS. They conducted an exhaustive literature search across 7 different databases...

Anxiety Treatment in CHD Patients: Escitalopram & Longer Term Benefits of Exercise

Aug 10, 2022

The UNWIND randomized clinical study found that treatment with Escitalopram for 12 weeks was more effective at reducing anxiety in nervous coronary heart disease (CHD) patients than either exercise tr...

Morphine & Clinical Outcomes in STEMI Patients

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to examine whether or not morphine was linked to an increased risk of adverse clinical events in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients treated with fibrin...

HFrEF Patients: Contemporary Outpatient Management

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers designed the CHART-HF study, an observational study of approximately 1,500 patients comparing patients with and without worsening HF events (WHFE) (WHFE being defined as recei...

Single-lead ICD Efficacy with Atrial Sensing Dipole to Detect AF & to Reduce Inappropriate Therapy

Aug 10, 2022

By randomly activating or deactivating the atrial sensing function for a study, researchers sought to evaluate, in the first place, whether the atrial sensing capability of atrial sensing dipole (VDD)...

SMM in Pregnancy by mWHO Classification of Maternal Cardiovascular Risk

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to compare the rates of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) among pregnant patients with a cardiac diagnosis. Using diagnosis and procedure codes, this retrospective invest...

DAPT Duration after PCI Using DES in High Bleeding Risk Patients

Aug 10, 2022

Patients who had undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DES) were included in this study.  Researchers searched for studies that compared the effects of optimal ...

Brain Natriuretic Peptides (BNP) in PAH Patients: Prognostic value

Aug 10, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to examine the predictive value of (NT-pro)BNP in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). It consisted of both a systematic review and a meta-analysis. To ...

Thromboxane Generation With Aspirin Users and Nonusers Survival

Aug 09, 2022

Aspirin (ASA) users with cardiovascular disease (CVD) have persistent systemic thromboxane production that comes mostly from nonplatelet sources, which is a mortality risk factor. Therefore, for a stu...

Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black Adults with Subclinical Atherosclerosis

Aug 09, 2022

Non-Hispanic Black people have a higher risk of cardiovascular (CV) events than those of other races or ethnicities; however, it was unclear why they differ in their susceptibility to early subclinica...

Early Revascularization Benefits Based on LVEF and Inducible Ischemia

Aug 09, 2022

The value of undertaking early myocardial revascularization in patients with inducible myocardial ischemia and poor left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is uncertain at the time. For a study, res...