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Job strain and effort-reward imbalance in the workplace may put white-collar workers at increased risk for experiencing a heart arrhythmia, researchers reported.

SAN FRANCISCO — Among patients with severe aortic stenosis and small aortic annuli, treatment with transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement yielded similar early and late hemodynamic and clinical outcomes in the VIVA trial.

SANTA FE, N.M. — In this video exclusive, Jacques P. Brown, MD, discusses clinical applications of bone turnover markers in managing osteoporosis.

Valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a self-expanding vs. balloon-expandable valve was associated with improved valve hemodynamics and no between-group differences in clinical outcomes, researchers reported at EuroPCR.

Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis receiving romosozumab for 12 months had larger improvements in bone mineral density and bone strength at the lumbar spine compared with those receiving alendronate alone, according to study data.

COVID-19 antibodies in convalescent plasma began to disappear in donations made 3 to 4 months after symptom onset, according to results of a longitudinal analysis published in Blood.