Cardiology
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Should patients stand for office BP readings?
New research suggests standing outperforms seated office BP measurement for diagnosing hypertension.
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Autoimmune diseases linked to spike in post-MI events
“People with rheumatic arthritis, when they have a heart attack, are less likely to get the standard kind of treatments and have worse outcomes...
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TBI is an unrecognized risk factor for cardiovascular disease
Given the relatively young age of post-9/11–era veterans with TBI, there may be an increased burden of heart disease in the future.
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Your poop may hold the secret to long life
If we could pull off a banking system like this, it could have the potential to treat autoimmune disease, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes,...
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Heparin pretreatment may safely open arteries before STEMI cath
The “early reperfusion” associated with IRA patency at angiography “could have long-term benefit due to smaller infarct size.”
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Myocardial infarction in women younger than 50: Lessons to learn
“Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in women, killing seven times more than breast cancer,” notes Dr. Manzo-Silberman.
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Dietary change tops for reducing CVD risk in stage 1 hypertension
Healthy lifestyle changes, particularly adoption of the DASH diet, can reduce CVD events in people with stage 1 hypertension.
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Lack of exercise linked to small heart, HFpEF
Chronic “exercise deficiency” is a major risk factor for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and regular physical activity ... may...
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Even mild COVID tied to vascular impairment
“It may encourage treating clinicians to be more aggressive with preventative neurovascular and cardiovascular health measures and/or screening in...
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How does salt intake relate to mortality?
Although there is an ongoing debate about the extent of salt’s effects ... there is no doubt that in most places in the world, people are...