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Cardiology General

Myocardial Infarction Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Jul 21, 2022

There were no data about the influence of fat-free mass (FFM) and body fat (BF) on the prognosis of myocardial infarction (MI) patients. For a study, researchers sought to examine the impact of FFM an...

Adding ‘Cancer’ to Risk Calculator May Help Predict Stroke in AF

Jul 14, 2022

Adding “cancer” to the atrial fibrillation prediction model improved the predictability of assessing the probability of stroke-free survival in patients. Several risk assessment tools have ...

Electronic Alerts to Improve Heart Failure Therapy

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to examine if targeted, and personalized electronic health record (EHR) alerts advising guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) enhanced GDMT use in eligible individu...

STEMI in COVID-19: Clinical Presentation, Management, and Outcomes

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to describe trends in COVID-19 STEMI patients throughout the duration of the pandemic. The NACMI (North American COVID-19 STEMI) registry is a multicenter, prospecti...

Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM): Precision Phenotyping Using Multidimensional Data

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to find new, repeatable DCM subphenotypes utilizing multiparametric data for better patient classification. Longitudinal, observational cohorts of DCM patients (enro...

Complications in the Carotid Artery and the Risk of Recurrent Ischemic Stroke or TIA

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine if complex carotid artery plaques (CAP) ipsilateral to acute ischemic anterior circulation stroke (icCAP) were linked to recurrent ischemic stroke or trans...

Prospective Assessment of Autonomic Dysfunction in COVID-19 Post-Acute Sequela

Jul 06, 2022

For an investigation, patients with post-acute sequela of COVID-19 (PASC) were subjected to head-up tilt table (HUTT) testing to look for orthostatic intolerance (OI), which might indicate autonomic d...

Early Coronary Atherosclerosis in Preeclampsia Patients

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to compare the frequency of coronary atherosclerosis in younger women with past preeclampsia to women in the general population. Women between the ages of 40 and 55 ...

Cigarette Smoking, Quitting, and the Risk of Heart Failure With Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to measure the relationship between cigarette smoking and smoking cessation and the prevalence of HFpEF and HFrEF. They used multivariable Cox models to assess the a...

Diabetes and Heart Failure Progression: The Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) Study

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to identify the role of diabetes in the development of preclinical heart failure (HF) stages to overt HF that is not understood well. Visit 5 of the ARIC (Atheroscle...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging False Lumen Flow Assessment and Long-Term Outcomes

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine the natural progression of non-complicated Alzheimer's disease (AD) and see if distinct false lumen (FL) flow patterns measured using magnetic resonance im...

Prospective Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk 10 Years After Pregnancy Hypertension

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to compare CV risk variables and subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) 20-30 years later; in a well-characterized cohort of ethnically diverse individuals with and w...

Elevated Residual Cholesterol Changes the Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease and Myocardial Infarction

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers came up with the idea that reclassifying people who subsequently suffer from myocardial infarction and ischemic heart disease would be reasonable, given the inclusion of high ...

A Provocative Test using Intracoronary Acetylcholine and Implications for Standard Protocols

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers investigated testing safety and subgroup variations in procedural risks depending on ethnicity, diagnostic criteria, and provocation methods. In November 2021, PubMed and E...

Quadruple Drug Therapy for Heart Failure: Medicare Coverage and Out-of-Pocket Costs

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to establish Medicare coverage and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures for quadruple treatment and regimens that did not include angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor ...

Socioeconomic Status and Bleeding Risk Following Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to examine the effect of patients' socioeconomic status on the risk of bleeding following mechanical aortic valve replacement (AVR). From 1997 to 2018, all patients ...

The Long-Term Outcomes of Congenital Heart Surgery Patients Who Require Unplanned Repeated Interventions

Jul 06, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine the long-term outcomes of transplant-free hospital discharge survivors who needed predischarge reinterventions following congenital heart surgery. From ...

Cardiovascular Outcomes Following Noncardiac Surgery and Preoperative Atrial Fibrillation

Jul 06, 2022

In a nationwide cohort, researchers wanted to see how AF affected the risk of adverse outcomes after noncardiac surgery. From 2015 to 2019, they identified Medicare members hospitalized for noncard...

Feasible approaches and implementation challenges to atrial fibrillation screening: a qualitative study of stakeholder views in 11 European countries.

Jun 22, 2022

Atrial fibrillation (AF) screening may increase early detection and reduce complications of AF. European, Australian and World Heart Federation guidelines recommend opportunistic screening, despite a ...

Progression of aortic stenosis after an acute myocardial infarction.

Jun 22, 2022

Myocardial infarction (MI) has been shown to induce fibrotic remodelling of the mitral and tricuspid valves. It is unknown whether MI also induces pathological remodelling of the aortic valve and alte...