Chest Pain

Adding fractional flow reserve assessment of all epicardial vessels at the time of diagnostic coronary angiography did not reduce costs or improve quality of life compared with angiography alone in patients with chest pain.

In a recent study, researchers analyzed drinking habits in patients with CVD. They reported that light to moderate drinkers had a reduced risk for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular events.

The first-ever guidance on recurrent, low-risk chest pain provides a good starting point for addressing a condition that is responsible for 5% of ED visits and costs up to $10 billion annually, one of the guideline authors said.

For patients with chest pain, there is no single imaging test that will provide the perfect diagnosis for all, according to a speaker at the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention.

Individuals whose employers switched to higher deductible health plans were less likely to visit the ED for chest pain after the switch, according to data published in Circulation.

The American Heart Association and the Emirates Cardiac Society, a non-profit focused on cardiology, launched a new program that provides Chest Pain Center certifications to hospitals in the Middle East, according to a press release.

Data from the Framingham Offspring Cohort revealed that consuming ultra-processed foods increased the risk for CVD. In addition, each added daily serving of ultra-processed foods was linked to a 9% increased risk for CVD death.

Women experienced more frequent misdiagnoses of chest pain compared with men, according to a presentation at the virtual European Society of Cardiology Acute Cardiovascular Care Congress.

Time from chest pain onset to ED presentation did not differ between patients who had a prior acute MI and those who did not, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Providing brief education to patients on CT results leads to patient adherence and reduces the future likelihood of noncardiac chest pain, researchers reported.