“Current guidelines justify treating most patients 75 and older with cholesterol-lowering drugs based on their estimated risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).”
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Visit Website“Patients hospitalized for acute MI, heart failure, or pneumonia have different outcomes depending on their race and neighborhood income, but an analysis suggests the cause of those differences is not rooted at the hospital level.”
Visit Website“Daytime sleepiness and poor sleep patterns might be linked to hypertension in black women, researchers reported last week at the American Heart Association’s Joint Hypertension 2018 Scientific Sessions in Chicago.”
Visit Website“Patients with sepsis are at a greater risk for heart attack and stroke in the four weeks following hospital discharge, research out of Taiwan has found, with more than half of all adverse CVD events in the ensuing six months occurring within 35 days of leaving the hospital.”
Visit Website“Black and Hispanic children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at a higher risk of increasing blood glucose levels than white children, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.”
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Visit Website“A Fresno, California, cardiologist has been placed on five years probation following accusations that he sent inappropriate, “annoying” text messages to a teenage girl in 2017, the Fresno Bee has reported.”
Visit Website“Results from several small and preliminary studies testing a range of devices for tricuspid regurgitation (TR) hint that percutaneous therapies are making progress for what’s long been called the “forgotten” valve.”
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