Cardiology Today Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Cardiology Today.
Table of Contents
- Cardiologists confront rise in preventable CV events
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- FDA approves software for use during ablation in AF
- Rivaroxaban approved to prevent CV events in CAD, PAD
- Cardiologists react to new Apple Watch ECG capabilities
- Accelerated diagnostic protocol determines risk in patients with chest pain
- AHA: Increased seafood intake may decrease CVD risk
- Aspirin fails to improve CV outcomes, raises hemorrhage risk in older adults
- Church-based lifestyle intervention reduces BP in black patients
- Height may predict risk for varicose veins
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- High BP may confer elevated risk for aortic valve disease
- Hookah smoking stiffens arteries similar to cigarettes
- In-hospital outcomes worse for heart transplant recipients with acute MI
- Mediterranean diet may reduce stroke risk in women
- Physical activity offsets some risk for AF in individuals with obesity, overweight
- Physical inactivity major risk factor for mortality, CVD
- Previously identified peak times for sudden cardiac arrest may not be valid
- Racial differences in incident hypertension driven by diet, education level
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- COAPT: MitraClip reduces hospitalization, mortality in HF, mitral regurgitation
- HARMONY: Albiglutide reduces CV risk in adults with type 2 diabetes, CVD
- High-STEACS: Troponin assay fails to reduce subsequent MI, CV death
- IMPERIAL: DES with polymer coating offers superior patency in PAD
- Lorcaserin reduces diabetes progression in high-risk adults with obesity, CVD
- New from CANTOS: Outcomes improve when canakinumab affects IL-6 pathway
- Novel therapy offers benefit for rare transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy
- POET: Oral antibiotics viable residual treatment for left-sided endocarditis
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- REDUCE-FMR: Regurgitant volume reduced with catheter-based mitral annuloplasty in HF
- SCOT-HEART: CTA with standard care reduces CHD death, MI at 5 years
- SOLVE-TAVI: Valves, anesthesia strategies confer similar outcomes in symptomatic aortic stenosis
- ULTIMATE: IVUS guidance bests angiography guidance in 12-month outcomes after PCI
- Ironing it out: Management of iron deficiency in HF Priyam Mithawala, PharmD; Janna C. Beavers, MS, PharmD, BCPS-AQ Cardiology; Sarah A. Spinler, PharmD, FCCP, FAHA, FASHP, AACC, BCPS (AQ Cardiology)
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- BIOFLOW V
- COAPT
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- FAITH
- High-STEACS
- ICELAND MI
- LEADERS FREE II
- TIM-HF2