Cardioprotective Anti-Hyperglycemic Therapies in T2D: A Call to Action
Optimizing the management of cardiovascular complications continues to be an important need in the...
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Body Fat Composition Predicts Heart Disease & Diabetes in Patients With PsA
“Obesity is an important comorbidity in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). While this is commonly assessed...
Revisiting DASH: Lower Sodium to Reduce Cardiac Injury, Strain
For the first time, researchers can show direct cardiac benefits of both Adhering to the DASH diet and reducing sodium intake will lower two biomarkers of subclinical cardiac injury and strain: high-sensitivity cardiac troponin...
ACC: Analyses Find SGLT2i Therapy Effective But Underutilized
Current guidelines strongly recommend use of the therapy for cardiology, diabetes patients In a series of presentations at ACC.21, the virtual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, researchers delivered data to confirm...
Anticoagulants Common in Afib Patients at End of Life
No clear standard for stopping treatment Nearly a third of nursing home residents with atrial fibrillation and advanced dementia received an anticoagulant drug in the last six months of life, a cross-sectional study showed.Among...
Use of hs-cTnT Assay Brings Increased Dx of Myocardial Injury, MI
But no increases in overall use of resources The use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin-T (hs-cTnT) assays significantly increased the number of diagnoses of myocardial injury and myocardial infarction (MI), especially in...
Examining the Reliability of Smartphone Pulse Oximetry
“Some of today’s smartphones are equipped with pulse oximeter capabilities, and since many...
Crystal Volume: A Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk in Gout
“The relationship between gout and cardiovascular (CV) disease risk is central to the management...
USPSTF Re-Ups Support for Office-Based BP Tracking
Office-based as well as measurement outside of the clinical setting should be taken to confirm hypertension Office-based blood pressure (BPs) measurements to screen for adult hypertension are still a go, but BP monitoring should...
The Impacts of Statin Use on Physical Function in Men With & Without HIV
With an increasing prevalence of older adults living with HIV, thanks to the effectiveness of ART,...
Assessing the Associations Between Blood Pressure Variability, Diuretics & Cardiovascular Events in Patients With CKD
“Patients with CKD have disproportionately high cardiovascular (CV) risk,” explains L. Parker...
Measuring HDL Anti-Inflammatory Capacity Better Predicts CVD Risk
Adding this measure to the Framingham Risk Score improves risk prediction Adding HDL anti-inflammatory capacity to Framingham risk scores can better predict patient risks for cardiovascular events, according to results from the...
