Cardiology
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VIDEO: Canakinumab’s cardiovascular benefits linked with hsCRP cuts
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Response in the inflammation marker hsCRP tracked with reduced CVD risk.
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Heart failure readmission penalties linked with rise in deaths
Heart failure readmissions penalties linked with rise in deaths ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Evidence continues to mount that Medicare’s penalization of...
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FDA: Febuxostat may have increased heart-related death risk
The agency reported preliminary findings from a postmarketing safety study started after febuxostat’s approval in 2009.
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Prescribers mostly ignore clopidogrel pharmacogenomic profiling
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Physicians treating ACS patients with an antiplatelet all but ignore their genetically assessed ability to metabolize...
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Keep PCI patients on aspirin for noncardiac surgery
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Perioperative aspirin is more likely to help than harm PCI patients undergoing noncardiac surgery.
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Healing chronic venous ulcers? Compression, compression, compression
If patients don’t wear compression stockings and don’t elevate their legs, the wound will never heal.
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VIDEO: U.S. hypertension guidelines reset threshold to 130/80 mm Hg
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Thirty million Americans became hypertensive overnight.
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Targeting PCSK9 inhibitors to reap most benefit
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – New FOURIER analyses show where evolocumab packs greatest payoff.
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Direct oral anticoagulants okay during AF device placement
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – The clinical scenario, not hematoma or stroke risk, can guide the decision to continue DOACs during antiarrhythmic device...
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DAPT produces better CABG outcomes than aspirin alone
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Saphenous vein grafts had improved patency with ticagrelor plus aspirin, compared with aspirin alone.
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Delay predicting outcome in comatose cardiac arrest
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Three days after arrest is too soon to reliably prognosticate.