Cardiology
Clinical Review
Advise lifestyle change to obese but metabolically healthy women
Major finding: Women with metabolic disorders had a fourfold increase in cardiovascular disease risk, regardless of their body mass index.Data...
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Diabetes, pro-BNP a bad mix for cardiac health
Major finding: Patients with type 2 diabetes and high levels of pro-B-type natriuretic peptide were 50% more likely to have a serious...
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Just over a third of hypertensive kidney patients are at target BP
Major finding: Of a large group of patients with chronic kidney disease and comorbid hypertension, 36% were at the blood pressure goal of less...
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Diabetic Patients' Stroke Risk Post MI has Plummeted
Major finding: The rate of ischemic stroke during the first year after an acute MI improved from 7.1% among Swedish diabetic patients whose...
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Statins Cut Limb Events in PAD Patients
Major finding: In patients with peripheral artery disease, statin use was linked with an adjusted, relative 21% cut in adverse limb outcomes.Data...
Clinical Review
AHA statement spotlights severe pediatric obesity
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia
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Aspirin for primary prevention of CVD: Are the right people using it?
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Cardiovascular ‘polypill’ improved medication adherence, hypertension
Major finding: Rates of adherence to CVD medications were 86.3% for both polypill groups, compared with 64.7% for the control group.Data source:...