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High blood pressure, diabetes and increased carotid artery wall thickness means increased risk of stroke

November 22, 2017

During the study, 186 patients were evaluated using multidetector row CT to see if CAWT is associated with cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia and a history of smoking. Results showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between diabetes and hypertension. "There was no significant statistical correlation between the increase of carotid wall thickness, smoking and dyslipidemia," said Luca Saba, MD, lead author of the study. "Our gro...

Rockefeller University Hospital opens clinical trial into statin-associated muscle complaints

November 21, 2017

Now, researchers at The Rockefeller University Hospital aim to determine the cause of statin-associated myopathy in a new clinical study. Patricia Maningat, instructor in clinical investigation in Rockefeller's Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, is the study's principal investigator. Approximately 38 million people in the United States are on statins, and medical professionals expect the number to continue rising. About 10 percent of patients taking statins report some level of ...

Natural heart pacemakers?

November 20, 2017

Could a permanent biological solution be possible? Richard Robinson and colleagues at New York's Columbia and Stony Brook Universities certainly think so, and their work published today in The Journal of Physiology brings the dream a step closer to reality. The body's own natural pacemaker, called the sinoatrial (SA) node, is extremely vulnerable to damage during a heart attack, often leaving the patient with a weak, slow or unreliable heartbeat. The heart has limited ability to recover from t...

Telemonitoring changes the working practice of cardiac nurses

November 19, 2017

The meeting - considered by many to be the premier international event for nurses and allied health professionals - will show case the latest advances in practice, education and research. The 400 plus delegates expected to attend from 26 different countries, will have the opportunity to hear wide ranging sessions covering all aspects of cardiology, including enhancing self care in heart failure populations, managing patients with ventricular assist devices, sudden cardiac death, hypertension, an...

Drug-coated stents lower risk of heart attack and death

November 18, 2017

The comparative effectiveness study of 262,700 Medicare patients who received stents - spring-like tubes to keep heart vessels open - is the largest ever to compare drug-coated stents with bare metal ones. It is being presented March 28 at the American College of Cardiology's 58th Annual Scientific Session in Orlando, Florida. A team of researchers from Duke University, AHRQ and Kaiser Permanente found that, compared with patients who received bare metal stents, those fitted with stents coated ...

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