Cardiology

High-amylose maize starch with chemical add-ons prevented diabtes in susceptible mice in an Australian study.

The drug reduced cardiovascular risk in people with prior heart attack and inflammatory atherosclerosis.

Her history includes diabetes, ESRD, coronary disease, and complete heart block after pacemaker implantation. What's your ECG read?

High HbA1c levels after the percutaneous cardiovascular intervention may help identify patients at long-term risk for adverse CV events.

With the global epidemic of obesity showing no signs of waning, physicians should be aware of the cardiac side effects of weight-loss drugs.

What topics are important for PCPs to understand to treat their CVD patients?

A tripartite strategy targets lifestyle change, treats CV risk factors and CV disease, and encourages more global thinking.

Breakthrough status for a new drug to treat familial hypercholesterolemia.

Using the database from the 40-country, double-blind phase 3 ARISTOTLE study, which has been around for over 5 years, a sub-analysis was conducted by Renato Lopes, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and colleagues.

Microbleeds in the brain appear to increase with cardiac procedures:Study.

The Absorb GT1 Bioresorbable Vascular Stent raised concerns at the FDA.

Excitement has been surrounding PCSK9 inhibitors due to high efficacy in lowering cholesterol. However, two reports in 2015 found that two of these drugs (evolocumab and alirocumab) were linked to cognitive issues. A phase 3 trial at ACC 2017 set out to find if that's actually the case.

Drugs were as effective in CTO patients as PCI, Korean study found.

New diagnostic tool iFR is less painful for heart patients than FFR.

In another major study comparing TAVR to surgery, outcomes were similar.

Jay Jin, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, shared the results from his team's case series surrounding unexpected bradycardia effect from epinephrine administration.

Steven Nissen, MD, says that heart attacks in fit people are not unusual.

Don't drink peroxide, even if alternative medicine promotes it.

Endotracheal intubation may do more harm than good.

Are fixed-dose antihypertensives here to stay? How does the newest combination work? Try this spot-check quiz.

Break out the blue paint for women with higher preconception blood pressure.

Heart disease risk factors, not occupation, were linked to shoulder pain.

In a new study, stroke occurred in 6.6% of the ranibizumab-treated group, compared with 7.0% of the controls matched by sociodemographic factors and comorbidities and 6.7% of the controls matched by sociodemographic factors only. These differences were not statistically significant.

Maryland researchers found that even mild hypoglycemia can pose a cardiovascular risk in obese people with diabetes.

For men afflicted with type 2 diabetes and at high risk for heart attacks; however, relief might be found in an unlikely source – the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra (sildenafil).