Cardiology

Recalled 'weight history' can predict heart failure risk

[ad_1] Asking older adults how much they weighed in the past can help to predict their risk of heart failure, according to recent research. New research found that asking seniors...

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Reaching cardiovascular prevention guideline targets with a polypill-based approach: a meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials

[ad_1] Objective The aim of this study was to determine the effect of polypill-based care on the achievement of 2016 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guideline targets for blood pressure...

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SYNTAX Score Predictive of PCI Adverse CV Events in Concomitant Diabetes, CAD

[ad_1] SYNTAX score, a validated prediction score used to estimate risk with PCI, is modestly correlated with hard cardiovascular events and is significantly correlated with major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular...

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Systemic Vascular Health Associated With Widespread Brain Changes

[ad_1] Systemic vascular health measured as a composite of recent cardiovascular and metabolic chronic conditions was associated with medial temporal lobe thinning, widespread cerebral hypoperfusion, and poor microstructural integrity. Source...

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Disrupting Fellow Education Through Group Texting: WhatsApp in Fellow Education?

[ad_1] Disrupting Fellow Education Through Group Texting: WhatsApp in Fellow Education? Source link [ad_2]

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Clinicians Guide to Reducing Inflammation to Reduce Atherothrombotic Risk: JACC Review Topic of the Week

[ad_1] Abstract Life-threatening cardiovascular events occur despite control of conventional risk factors. Inflammation, as measured by high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) concentration, is associated with future vascular events in both primary...

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Health-related quality of life in surgical children and adolescents with congenital heart disease compared with their age-matched healthy sibling: a cross-sectional study from a lower middle-income country, Pakistan.

[ad_1] Related Articles Health-related quality of life in surgical children and adolescents with congenital heart disease compared with their age-matched healthy sibling: a cross-sectional study from a lower middle-income country,...

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Approaches to therapeutic angiogenesis for ischemic heart disease.

[ad_1] Related Articles Approaches to therapeutic angiogenesis for ischemic heart disease. J Mol Med (Berl). 2018 Dec 15;: Authors: Johnson T, Zhao L, Manuel G, Taylor H, Liu D Abstract...

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Left Ventricular End-Systolic Volume Can Predict 1-Year Hierarchical Clinical Composite End Point in Patients with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.

[ad_1] Related Articles Left Ventricular End-Systolic Volume Can Predict 1-Year Hierarchical Clinical Composite End Point in Patients with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. Yonsei Med J. 2019 Jan;60(1):48-55 Authors: Uhm JS, Oh...

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Beating Heartbreak in 2018

[ad_1] A year of research highlights from the BHFBlood vessels in a ZebrafishThroughout 2018, BHF-funded researchers carried out pioneering research to help beat heartbreak forever. Our research starts with the heart,...

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Cardiovascular phenotype and prognosis of patients with heart failure induced by cancer therapy

[ad_1] Objective This study compared the clinical features, cardiac structure and function evaluated by echocardiography, cardiopulmonary response to exercise and long-term clinical outcomes between patients with heart failure (HF) induced...

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Interventions to Prevent CIED Infections: More or Less?

[ad_1] Interventions to Prevent CIED Infections: More or Less? Source link [ad_2]

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His Resynchronization Versus Biventricular Pacing in Patients With Heart Failure and Left Bundle Branch Block

[ad_1] AbstractBackground His bundle pacing is a new method for delivering cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Objectives The authors performed a head-to-head, high-precision, acute crossover comparison between His bundle pacing and...

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Holt-Oram syndrome: clinical and molecular description of 78 patients with TBX5 variants.

[ad_1] Related Articles Holt-Oram syndrome: clinical and molecular description of 78 patients with TBX5 variants. Eur J Hum Genet. 2018 Dec 14;: Authors: Vanlerberghe C, Jourdain AS, Ghoumid J, Frenois...

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Blood pressure reactivity at onset of mental stress determines sympathetic vascular response in young adults.

[ad_1] Related Articles Blood pressure reactivity at onset of mental stress determines sympathetic vascular response in young adults. Physiol Rep. 2018 Dec;6(24):e13944 Authors: El Sayed K, Macefield VG, Hissen SL,...

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The unit of Estimated Plasma Volume in Patients with Heart Failure using the Strauss-derived Duarte formula is not liter but dL/g.

[ad_1] Related Articles The unit of Estimated Plasma Volume in Patients with Heart Failure using the Strauss-derived Duarte formula is not liter but dL/g. J Card Fail. 2018 Dec 12;:...

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2018 Year in Review

[ad_1] Rob and I want to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude to ALL of you who have supported our mission and efforts in supporting the Congenital Heart...

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Science Confirms-Eating Chicken Is Not Healthier Than Eating Red Meat

[ad_1] Most Americans take it for granted that if they want to lower their risk of heart disease they should switch from eating red meat to eating chicken. As a...

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Skin in the game: taking women’s cardiac misdiagnosis seriously

[ad_1] Maybe women care more about frightening statistics on misdiagnosis of women's heart disease because we're the ones with skin in the game... Source link [ad_2]

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Murmur clinic: validation of a new model for detecting heart valve disease

[ad_1] Objectives We aimed to determine if auscultation or a point-of-care scan could reduce the need for standard echocardiography (transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE)) in community patients with asymptomatic murmurs. Methods Requests...

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