Myocardial Infarction

Among patients with gout, those with cardiovascular monosodium urate deposits, confirmed via dual energy CT, demonstrate a higher risk for major adverse cardiac events, according to data published in Rheumatology.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Clinicians do not consistently use algorithms for dosing methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta when treating patients with anemia, presented research shows.

Patients with stroke history had significantly poorer CV prevention profiles compared with patients with history of MI, with pronounced disparities based on race and neighborhood deprivation status, according to study results.

In a meta-analysis of studies covering more than 400,000 people, climbing stairs was associated with reduced risk for all-cause mortality and death from heart disease.

Few areas in cardiology are as active as development and implementation of medical therapies for heart failure, and few people are as familiar with that landscape as Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC.

BOSTON — Editors of Annals of Internal Medicine compiled a list of studies published over the past year that they said have important implications for internal medicine physicians.

In a large Danish cohort, heart failure was a more significant CV complication than stroke after diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, which became more common over 20 years.

Too often, heart attack signals are missed or misdiagnosed in women, not just by patients and providers, but by first responders as well.

ATLANTA — In the TACT2 trial, chelation therapy reduced levels of lead in the blood but did not improve cardiovascular outcomes for adults with diabetes and a prior heart attack.

ATLANTA — In patients who underwent early angiography for acute MI and had ejection fraction of 50% or more, long-term beta-blocker use did not reduce risk for death or new MI compared with no use, researchers reported.