Acute Coronary Syndromes
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CVD more prevalent in chronic kidney disease patients
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Testosterone for ‘low T’ raises death, MI, and stroke risk
Major Finding: The absolute risk of death, MI, or ischemic stroke was 5.8% higher in men taking any formulation of testosterone therapy than in...
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Atrial fib linked to incident myocardial infarction
Major finding: The age-adjusted incidence of MI was 12 per 1,000 in participants who had AF, compared with 6 per 1,000 in participants who didn’t...
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Shorter antiplatelet therapy after stenting found noninferior
Major finding: The incidence at 12 months of a composite of adverse events was 6% in patients randomized to 3 months of DAPT and 5.8% in those...
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Prehospital bivalirudin reduced bleeding with PCI
Major finding: Rates of death or major bleeding not associated with CABG were 5.1% in the bivalirudin group at 30 days and 8.4% in the control...
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Novel two-biomarker strategy permits early ACS rule-out
Major finding: Of the patients in the copeptin group, 66% were discharged directly from the emergency department, compared with 12% in the...
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Flu vaccine linked to lower cardiovascular risk
Major Finding: The rate of major adverse cardiovascular events during the year following vaccination was 2.9, significantly lower than the 4.7%...
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Hunting for cardiovascular signals from diabetes drugs
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Gender-specific biomarker thresholds urged in MI diagnosis
Major finding: The use of a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay with novel gender-specific diagnostic thresholds boosted the MI diagnosis...
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75% of increase in MI spending came after 30 days
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Think exercise first for secondary prevention?
Major finding: No statistically detectable difference was seen in mortality outcomes between exercise and drug interventions for the secondary...