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Understanding the Obese Patient

Obesity rates have climbed nearly 50 percent since 1997, with as much as 30 percent of the population classified as obese. There is strong belief within the health care industry that obesity should be treated as a primary medical condition, with physicians playing a major role. Evidence suggests that patients are more likely to lose weight when they are advised by their primary care physicians to do so.

Gender Disparities in Partner Abandonment Following Life-threatening Diagnoses

Women who have been diagnosed recently with cancer or multiple sclerosis are six times more likely to be separated or divorced than their recently diagnosed male counterparts, according to a study in Cancer.

Cardiac tumor versus thrombus differentiation: Role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Mortality of patients with diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction

We evaluated trends in the treatment and mortality of patients with and without diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction over the last decade. Despite improvements in the provision of evidence-based care, patients with diabetes did not derive improvements in long-term survival.

Cardiac magnetic resonance stress tests in coronary heart disease

We evaluated the prognostic value of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) stress testing with direct comparison of adenosine stress first-pass perfusion and dobutamine stress wall motion imaging among 513 subjects with known or suspected coronary heart disease over a median follow-up period of 2.3 years. Positive results on CMR stress testing identified subjects at high risk for subsequent cardiac events (nonfatal myocardial infarction or cardiac death), whereas normal CMR stress test results were associated with a very low annual cardiac event rate.

Double infarct syndrome: Simultaneous subacute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction involving the right coronary and the left circumflex arteries

Ruptured or vulnerable plaques exist not only at the culprit lesion but also in the whole coronary artery in some acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients.Goldstein et al found features of instability of nonculprit plaques in nearly 40% of patients by angiography,1 whereas actual rupture in a remote site other than the angiographic culprit lesion was found in approximately 13% to 79% of cases when evaluated by intravascular ultrasound.

Observational study shows risk of death from CVD differs between sexes

The last 2 decades have seen enormous strides in the identifi cation and modification of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Many large, population-based studies, led by the Framingham Heart Study, have been invaluable in identifying these risk factors.

T-Wave Pattern Can Prioritize HF Patients for ICD Placement

Food Allergy Prevention: A Paradigm Shift in How We Feed Our Babies

Rapidly accumulating evidence indicates that delayed introduction of allergenic foods may have contributed to the unexplained rise in food allergy rates over the past 20 years.

Sorafenib (Nexavar) Becomes First and Only Approved Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Europe

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization to sorafenib (Nexavar) for the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer. Nexavar, an oral anticancer drug, is the first approved systemic therapy for HCC and the only one shown to significantly improve overall survival in patients with the disease.