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Blood pressure lowering reduces dementia risk
“This proven, effective intervention should be widely scaled up to reduce the global burden of dementia.”
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FDA OKs Paradise Renal Denervation system for hypertension
The system delivers two to three doses of 360-degree ultrasound energy, lasting 7 seconds each, through each of the main renal arteries to the...
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Steady VKA therapy beats switch to NOAC in frail AFib patients: FRAIL-AF
The switch resulted in more bleeding without any reduction in thromboembolic complications or all-cause mortality.
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No reduction in AFib after noncardiac surgery with colchicine: COP-AF
“We think that further studies are needed to tease out which patients can benefit from colchicine and in what setting it can be used.”
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No benefit of routine stress test POST-PCI in high-risk patients
Routine functional testing provided no advantage on clinical outcomes over standard care among high-risk patients after intervention, suggesting ‘...
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ALL-HEART: No benefit of allopurinol in ischemic heart disease
Allopurinol failed to affect a composite of nonfatal MI, nonfatal stroke, or CV death, in a randomized trial that was ‘definitively neutral’ in...
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Angiography can wait for cardiac arrest without ST-elevation
Results of the TOMAHAWK trial show that immediate transfer for angiography after out-of-hospital arrest without ST-segment elevation provided no...
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FDA approves dapagliflozin (Farxiga) for chronic kidney disease
Based on results of the DAPA-CKD trial, the FDA has granted approval for the diabetes drug in patients with CKD at risk for disease progression....
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ACC issues guidance on cardiac implications of coronavirus
The document provides information on the potential cardiac implications from analog viral respiratory pandemics and offers early clinical guidance...