Cardiology
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Why doctors keep monitoring kids who recover from mysterious COVID-linked illness
When Israel Shippy had MIS-C, his mother said there was nothing she could do to make him comfortable.
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Prior beta-blockers predict extra burden of heart failure in women with ACS
“Our provides robust evidence of an interaction between sex and beta-blocker therapy,” said Dr. Raffaele Bugiardini.
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SGLT2 inhibitors, developed for T2D, now ‘belong to cardiologists and nephrologists’
When the SGT2 inhibitor drugs first came to the U.S. market they were labeled for just treating hyperglycemia, but those days are over.
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Cardiac CT scans can be used for osteoporosis screening
The “results represent a step toward appraisal and recognition of the clinical utility of opportunistic BMD screening from cardiac CT.”
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Early childhood overweight, obesity tied to high cardiometabolic syndrome risk
Parents, primary care providers have an opportunity to “flatten the curve” by addressing BMI increases early in life to delay or prevent obesity...
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Primary prevention statins cut mortality even in the very elderly: VHA study
The current findings “provide additional support for treatment guidelines that have increasingly advocated for more widespread use of statin...
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Steroids linked to increased hypertension in RA
“Hypertension is a side effect of [glucocorticoids] that seems to have been less well studied [than fractures], and yet it is an important...
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Myocarditis in COVID-19: An elusive cardiac complication
“There are some experts who believe we’re likely still dealing with myocarditis but with atypical features, while others suggest there is no...
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Captopril questioned for diabetes patients in COVID-19 setting
Captopril appears to be associated with a higher rate of pulmonary adverse reactions in patients with diabetes than that of other ACE inhibitors...
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Self-measured BP monitoring at home ‘more important than ever’
A joint policy statement from the AHA and AMA reaffirms the value of self-measured blood pressure monitoring at home to detect and control...
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COVID-19: ‘dramatic’ surge in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in NYC
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, first responders faced nearly triple the number of calls for cardiac arrest compared with...