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Issue: February 2009
Volume: 26
Number: 2
 
CAD
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•Medication nonadherence and adverse outcomes in CAD patients
Case Report
 
•The dangers of nonadherence to cardiovascular medications
Commentary
 
•Nonadherence to cardiac medications: An important consideration
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•Leading a horse to water and making it drink
 
•Letter to the Editor: Metformin and diabetes
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•Global Pulse: The latest cardiovascular highlights
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•Revisiting the silent killer in Asian Indians
Diabetes
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•Clinically effective approaches to meeting the American Diabetes Association’s guidelines: Glycated hemoglobin and lipids
In the Heart of Women
 
•Traditional risk factors across short-, intermediate-, and long-term follow-up in men and women
Case Report
 
•Counseling may prove effective in patients with CVD risk factors
Commentary
 
•Observational study shows risk of death from CVD differs between sexes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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A 58-year-old woman with a longstanding history of hypertension presented with numbness on the right side of the body and drooping of the right side of the face. The episode lasted about 30 minutes, after which there was a significant improvement of symptoms... Read the rest of the case report inside and take the quiz!
 
 
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This editorial was stimulated one morning when I saw a patient with congestive heart failure and rapid atrial fibrillation (AF).
 
Late diagnosis of a congenital coronary anomaly
A 64-year-old woman with a history of atrial fibrillation, hypertension, and sarcoidosis presented to the emergency department with chest pain. After a positive stress test, a coronary angiogram was performed, which showed normal coronary arteries except for an anomalous take-off of the left circumflex artery from the right coronary cusp.
 
Coronary angiography revealing a rare anomaly
A 48-year-old man with a history of type 2 diabetes was referred to our outpatient clinic for preoperative evaluation before undergoing intrabdominal surgery. He reported recently aggravated chest discomfort at rest.
 
Blockade of the RAA system in diabetic patients: ACE inhibition, ARBs, and the potential role of direct renin inhibition
Modulation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAA) system using angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) has been shown to have beneficial effects on blood pressure, diabetic nephropathy, coronary heart disease, and heart failure.
 
 
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