Cardiology Today Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Cardiology Today.
Table of Contents
- AHA, ACC issue new guidelines for treatment of STEMI
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- Autopsy study highlights dramatic decline in atherosclerosis among US soldiers
- CV health of Americans varies state to state
- Mandatory ECG screening of US athletes associated with high costs
- Mortality while on heart transplant waiting list decreased in recent years
- Physical activity underutilized for patients with stable ischemic heart disease
- Positive results announced for cangrelor in patients undergoing PCI
- Report predicts slow growth in US imaging equipment market through 2017
- FDA cautions against Pradaxa in patients with mechanical prosthetic heart valves
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- Health policy and health care delivery in 2013 L. Samuel Wann, MD, MACC, FESC
- Global life expectancy increased nearly 20% since 1990
- Benefits of CRT less pronounced in HF patients with diabetes
- Blood transfusions increased risk for death in MI patients
- Chest compression-only CPR improved survival for out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest
- Clopidogrel pretreatment lowered risk for major cardiac events, not mortality
- Electronic health records not upholding promises on lower costs, better care
- High-dose statins potentially overused for some patients with diabetes
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- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy screening urged to continue into adulthood
- Older breast cancer patients face HF, cardiomyopathy after trastuzumab
- Poor communication hampered medication adherence
- Psychosocial distress may compound stroke risk in older adults
- Survival, neurologic outcomes improved in cardiac arrest patients
- Symplicity-HTN2: Renal denervation lowers BP out to 1 year
- Temporal trends in acute MI onset shifted after Hurricane Katrina
- Colchicine in the cardiology clinic: No longer just for gout Augustus (Rob) Hough, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP; Abigail Plummer, PharmD
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- New-generation oral anticoagulants represent advance in management of nonvalvular AF
- AVIO
- DISCERN AF
- EVOLVE
- PROTECT AF
- REACH-Pilot
- REACH Registry
- REGARDS
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- Symplicity HTN-2