Latest Conference Articles

For patients with heart failure, the influenza vaccine can result in a mortality reduction up to 50% in season and 20% out of season.

Listening to music may help prolong exercise and participation, and may possibly have broader implications for exercise.

Findings suggest climate change may increase MI risk.

The risk of myocardial infarction was 2.4-fold higher in patients on short-term P2Y12 inhibitors after 18 months and 5.1-fold higher from month 6 to month 18.

Andexanet was shown to reduce FXa inhibition activity by 91% for patients on apixaban, 88% for patients on rivaroxaban, and 75% for patients on enoxaparin.

No events of primary endpoint occurred in PFO closure arm, whereas it developed in 6 of 60 patients receiving medication therapy alone.

Aggressive supplementation with vitamin D3 just before and after surgery can completely eliminate the observed drop.

As canakinumab lowers hsCRP, as well as interleukin-6, without a negative effect on lipid levels, it characterizes a new class of atherosclerosis medications.

The combined efforts of coaxing from barbers and monthly in-shop care from pharmacists resulted in 63.6% of the cohort achieving target BP levels.

The CVD-REAL 2 study found that compared with other glucose-lowering drugs, SGLT-2 inhibitors reduce all-cause death, hospitalization for heart failure, myocardial infarction, and stroke.

While receiving a large dose of statin therapy did not have an impact on major adverse cardiac events among a broad population of patients, those that underwent percutaneous coronary intervention saw reductions.

Patients that were more optimistic had fewer heart-related hospital visits.

The mSToPS trial revealed a wearable ECG patch can markedly increase the AFib diagnosis rate relative to routine care—as much as 9-fold in the short-term and 3-fold in the long-term.

MOMENTUM 3 found that advanced heart-failure patients with an implanted centrifugal-flow circulatory pump had lower rates of pump-related blood clots and stroke.

Studies reveal short- and long-term effects of heart changes in college and professional football players.

The use of instantaneous wave-free ratio can reportedly save each patient at least $800 in comparison with fractional flow reserve.

While full parity may be impossible, a 4-step protocol did decrease discrepancies in clinical outcomes and mortality between men and women.

Clinicians have been shown to be influenced by their patients’ genetic makeup when prescribing antiplatelet therapies.

All-cause mortality and death due to stroke, however, were 1.8% and 0.5% lower, respectively, in the group utilizing WCD.

Study sheds new light on potential risks and benefits of aspirin for people with both conditions.

The trial showed alirocumab reduced MACE by 24% with an ARR of 3.4% and all-cause death by 29% with an ARR of 1.7% in patients with ACS and baseline LDL-C ≥100 mg/dL.

The Vancouver, BC, retrospective cohort study found the HIV-schizophrenia population was mostly white, and mostly males.

Two new women are infected with HIV every minute. How much of a role does dybiosis play in preventive treatment failure?

The point prevalence of depression among East African HIV AFRICOS study participants undergoing HIV care is 18% to 25%.

Multiple studies have previously shown that increases in cockroach allergen are linked to a four-fold risk of asthma.

Though PCSK9 levels are commonly associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, it could also release pro-inflammatory responses in monocytes/ macrophages.

A rapid entry program decreased time to first provider appointment, time to initiation of ART and time to viral suppression.

For patients with perinatal HIV, ART has essentially made the infection a chronic, but manageable, health condition.