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Hypertension risk soars in offspring of early-HT parents
NEW ORLEANS – When assessing a patient’s future risk for hypertension, consider the age at which the parents developed the disease.
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STICHES boosts CABG role in severe LV dysfunction
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Parents seek easily understood public reporting of cardiac outcome measures
Parents of children with congenital heart disease cite the three most important congenital heart surgery outcome measures to report publicly.
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Puerperal NSAIDs show no hypertension risk
New evidence helps refute a recent call to limit puerperal NSAID use for women who had severe preeclampsia during pregnancy and hypertension...
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Sleep apnea may induce distinct form of atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation associated with sleep apnea appears to have features that should be addressed specifically for sustained rhythm control.
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Clinicians underusing statins, aspirin in HIV patients
Physicians might not be prescribing enough statins and/or aspirin therapy for the HIV-infected population at highest risk for atherosclerotic...
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Childhood obesity tied to maternal obesity, cesarean birth
NEW ORLEANS – Maternal obesity and cesarean delivery were each independently associated with increased rates of overweight or obesity during...
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Intracardiac echo safely guides LAA occluder placement
ORLANDO – Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) can be safely substituted for transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as a less invasive option in...
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Hypothermia confers no benefits in children with cardiac arrest
Survival and neurobehavioral function did not differ at 1 year following cardiac arrest.
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Strokes, migraines linked in women with possible CAD
Women undergoing coronary angiography because of suspected coronary artery disease who also had a history of migraine had a significantly...
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Experts say don’t SPRINT to adopt low blood pressure target
NEW ORLEANS – The SPRINT trial target of systolic blood pressure less than 120 mm Hg doesn’t apply to most hypertensive patients.