Heartbeat

Heartbeat: Balance of safety and efficacy of antihypertensive treatment in elderly patients

Hypertension treatment is an essential element in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Despite recent guidelines recommending medical therapy at a lower systolic blood pressure (SBP) threshold, these recommendations remain...

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Heartbeat: impact of suboptimal response to primary prevention statin therapy

A key element in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the use of statin therapy to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in people at increased risk of CVD...

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“Every Heartbeat Matters” To Impact 1.5 Million Underserved People! Go Amanda!

“Every Heartbeat Matters” To Impact 1.5 Million Underserved People! Go Amanda! Source link

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Heartbeat: Aortic size in athletes

The primary goal of pre-participation cardiac evaluation in athletes is to identify individuals at high risk of sudden death but other cardiac abnormalities may be discovered.  Athletes tend to have larger...

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Heartbeat: Diagnosis of subclinical atrial fibrillation by physicians and patients

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is estimated to cause about 15% of all strokes, yet many patients with AF are asymptomatic, and thus, not diagnosed or treated with preventative anticoagulation. Our ability...

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Heartbeat: An ecosystem approach to clinical decision making

[ad_1] Improving the efficiency of healthcare is essential for reducing healthcare costs. Adherence to evidence-based practice guidelines has the potential to improve health outcomes at lower costs but there are...

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Heartbeat: Primary care delays in heart failure diagnosis

[ad_1] Most patients with new-onset heart failure (HF) will present to a primary care provider with symptoms of fatigue, breathlessness and ankle swelling. Diagnosis can be challenging given the nonspecific...

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Morning Break: Origin of RA; Another Heartbeat Law; What Did You Say?

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Heartbeat: Bicuspid aortic valve heritability and association with aortopathy

[ad_1] Patients with a bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) may present with aortic regurgitation requiring valve replacement in young adulthood and a subset of patients manifests with progressive aortic dilation and...

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Mobile Heartbeat Launches CURE Connect Interoperability Program to Bring New Capabilities Via its Clinical Communications Platform

[ad_1] WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/clinicalcommunicationandcollaboration?src=hash" target="_blank"gt;#clinicalcommunicationandcollaborationlt;/agt;--Mobile Heartbeat announces its CURE Connect Interoperability Program to integrate technologies that will drive new mobile communications capabilities. Source link [ad_2]

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Heartbeat: Risk stratification for asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis

[ad_1] The recommendation in current guidelines that aortic valve replacement (AVR) be performed in adults with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis (AS) is based on solid evidence. However, it is unclear...

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Could Pacemakers Be Powered By Heartbeats One Day?

[ad_1] Battery-powered pacemakers have to be replaced every five to 12 years. So, some scientists have been working an alternative: battery-free pacemakers that in theory would never have to be...

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Should we screen people for irregular heartbeat?

[ad_1] Should we screen people for irregular heartbeat (known as atrial fibrillation, or AF for short) in an effort to prevent strokes? Experts debate the issue in The BMJ today....

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Heartbeat: Telemedicine for echocardiography screening

[ad_1] Echocardiography allows accurate, rapid, non-invasive diagnosis of heart disease but is not available in many underserved populations. Nascimento and colleagues1 in Brazil tested the hypothesis that telemedicine interpretation of...

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Is an irregular heartbeat in young and middle-aged adults genetic?

[ad_1] Medical News Bulletin | Health News and Medical Research - Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place Researchers...

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Heartbeat: Fixed dose combination drugs for hypertension

[ad_1] Fixed dose combination (FDC) drugs are standard practice in the treatment of infectious diseases, but their role in chronic non-communicable diseases is unclear. FDC anti-hypertensive drugs are an attractive...

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Heartbeat: heart failure induced by cancer therapy

[ad_1] Heart failure (HF) is the most common and serious cardiovascular complication of cancer therapy. As succinctly stated in an editorial by Lyon, ‘Success in the diagnosis and treatment of many...

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Heartbeat: The worldwide burden of atrial fibrillation

[ad_1] Atrial fibrillation (AF) has emerged as one of the few cardiovascular diseases in which both the number of cases and the age-adjusted prevalence has increased over the last decades...

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Migraines that affect vision may increase risk of irregular heartbeat

[ad_1] People who experience migraine with visual aura may have an increased risk of an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, according to a study published in the November 14, 2018,...

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Heartbeat: Improving diagnosis and management of aortic valve disease

[ad_1] Many adults with severe aortic stenosis (AS) present with end-stage disease, at a point where intervention is risky and might be futile, because the diagnosis is missed earlier in the...

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