Cardiology
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Reducing heart failure readmissions raises mortality
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“The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans”— a summary with tips
Only about 20% of Americans are sufficiently active, according to “The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans” issued by a Department of...
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Firibastat looking good for difficult-to-treat hypertension
CHICAGO – A phase 2b trial of a novel antihypertensive drug checks off efficacy and safety boxes.
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‘Payoff will be great’ if we can conquer childhood obesity, expert says
LOS ANGELES – Direct evidence of a link between obesity in youth and adult cardiovascular disease is beginning to emerge.
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Societies refresh diabetes and PAD guidance
The barbershop study is going strong, and a boost for BMI as a measure of cardiometabolic risk.
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Opioids don’t top NSAIDs for chronic pain
And canakinumab has a remarkable effect on knee and hip replacement risk.
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Untreated OSA linked to resistant hypertension in black patients
A total of 25.7% of hypertension patients had moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea, though few were physician diagnosed.
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New risk-prediction model for diabetes under development
LOS ANGELES – Efforts are under way to apply it in clinical practice settings.
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Canakinumab reduces arthroplasty rates
CHICAGO – Prespecified secondary analysis from landmark CANTOS trial was the talk of the ACR annual meeting.
From the Journals
Barbershop BP intervention going strong at 12 months
Pharmacists at the barbershop got all participants on meds, and two-thirds hitting the target BP.
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Telemedicine not widely used
Brain injury in sickle cell merits more attention.