Acute Coronary Syndromes
Conference Coverage
Door-to-Balloon Time Cuts Spiked False Activations
Major Finding: In 2007-2011, door-to-balloon times for STEMI fell from 73 to 64 minutes, while false activations rose from 23% to 48%.Data Source...
News
Trastuzumab Raises Cardiotoxicity Fivefold in Breast Cancer Patients
Conference Coverage
NSAID Use Post MI Boosted A Fib and Stroke
Major Finding: Among NSAID users, the incidence of atrial fibrillation in the post-MI patients was 26.9 cases/1,000 person-years and the stroke...
Conference Coverage
Acupuncture Improves Heart Rate Variability in CHD
Major Finding: Compared with sham-treated controls, traditional acupuncture recipients had 17% more high frequency heart rate variability as...
Conference Coverage
Two More Clopidogrel Resistance Genes Found
Major Finding: The overall frequency of the ATP2B2 variant linked to platelet activity in the presence of clopidogrel is 27% in the white...
News
ECG Abnormalities in Elderly Linked to Increased CHD
Major Finding: The rate of CHD events was 17.2 per 1,000 person-years for asymptomatic subjects who had no ECG abnormalities, significantly lower...
Conference Coverage
More In-Hospital Deaths in MI Patients With Diabetes
Major Finding: Patients with diabetes who are hospitalized for acute MI are at an adjusted 18% increased risk for in-hospital mortality, compared...
News
Cancer Diagnosis Appears to Raise Suicide, Cardiovascular Risks
Major Finding: The rate of completed suicide was twice as high among adults with newly diagnosed cancer of any kind (0.36 per 1,000 person-years)...
Commentary
Preventing Atherothrombotic Events? It's Complicated
News
Low-Tech Intervention Doubles Evidence-Based ACS Care
Major Finding: ACS patients at hospitals with the intervention were significantly more likely than were those at control hospitals to receive all...
News
Point-of-Care Test Opens Door to Tailored Antiplatelet Therapy
Major Finding: Compared with CYP2C19*2 carriers who received standard treatment (clopidogrel), those who received treatment tailored to their...