Acute Coronary Syndromes
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Diabetes morbidity varies with patient age, disease duration
Major finding: The rate of serious hypoglycemic events per 1,000 person-years rose from 3.0 in the youngest patients with the shortest duration of...
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Smoking cessation agents don’t raise serious CVD risks
Major Finding: Bupropion appeared to protect against minor or serious CVD events, varenicline showed no harmful or beneficial effect on minor or...
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Dopamine, nesiritide ineffective in acute heart failure with renal dysfunction
Major finding: Neither low-dose dopamine nor low-dose nesiritide improved decongestion or boosted renal function when added to diuretic therapy in...
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FDA lifts rosiglitazone prescribing restrictions
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Chest pain traits didn’t identify MI in women
Major finding: Only 3 of the 34 characteristics of chest pain differed significantly enough between men and women to possibly enhance diagnosis of...
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Noninvasive coronary test accurate for lesion-specific ischemia
Major finding: The per-patient AUC was 0.82 with the FFRCT test, significantly better than 0.63 with CT angiography.Data source: A prospective,...
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Successful anti-TNF therapy may cancel excess coronary risk in RA
Major finding: The acute coronary syndrome risk was 1.94-fold greater in rheumatoid arthritis patients with a moderate response to anti-TNF...
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Varespladib raises MI risk after recent acute coronary syndrome
Major Finding: Patients who took varespladib had a significantly higher rate of MI (3.4%) than those who took placebo (2.2%), with a hazard ratio...
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Intervention boosts post-acute coronary syndrome medication adherence, but not outcomes
Major finding: The intervention improved the proportion of adherent patients by 15%, and improved the mean adherence to the four medications...
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Studies question benefits of induced hypothermia after cardiac arrest
Major finding: Induced hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest didn’t improve patient outcomes when compared with near-normal...
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Depression accounts for psoriatics’ increased MI risk
Major finding: Patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis who developed comorbid depression had a highly significant 80% increased risk of...