News tagged with cardiac events

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Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests

(AP) -- Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks. Duke University researchers found a link between how a key stock index performed and how many heart attacks ...

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created Mar 13, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study reveals mounting evidence of fish oil's heart health benefits

There is mounting evidence that omega-3 fatty acids from fish or fish oil supplements not only help prevent cardiovascular diseases in healthy individuals, but also reduce the incidence of cardiac events and mortality in ...

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created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Feeling down and out could break your heart, literally

New data published in the March 17, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggest that relatively healthy women with severe depression are at increased risk of cardiac events, including sudden cardia ...

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Severe psoriasis linked to major adverse cardiovascular events

Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease, and if severe, has been demonstrated to be a risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) disease. However, the degree to which psoriasis is associated with major adverse cardiac events ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists identify new marker for heart disease

A new study from the Libin Cardiovascular Institute at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine is shedding light on an underlying cause of heart disease.

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created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Integrative Medicine: Cognitive behavioral therapy

We know that the state of the mind has a lot to do with how healthy the body is. An interesting study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine demonstrates the mind-body connection yet again - this time ...

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created Feb 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Coronary imaging enhances ability to identify plaques likely to cause future heart disease

Results from the PROSPECT clinical trial shed new light on the types of vulnerable plaque that are most likely to cause sudden, unexpected adverse cardiac events, and on the ability to identify them through imaging techniques ...

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created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers

Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chest pain med is effective for refractory angina, but adherence problematic

Ranolazine (Ranexa, Gilead) is an effective anti-anginal therapy in patients with refractory angina; however, at one year only 59 percent of patients remained on the drug, according to a scientific poster that will be presented ...

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Despite uncertain benefit, fibrates commonly used in US, Canada

Although recent evidence suggests that the clinical benefit may be uncertain for fibrates, a class of drugs used for the treatment of high lipid levels, use of these drugs is common in the U.S. and Canada, with usage increasing ...

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created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First in man SESAME stent trial demonstrates 100 percent acute success rate

A new study revealed that the novel self-expanding super-elastic all-metal endoprosthesis stent (SESAME StentTM) used in patients undergoing angioplasty of degenerated saphenous vein graft (SVG) lesions has 100% acute success, ...

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created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer-automated monitoring system may help identify medical devices with potential safety risks

Implementation in Massachusetts of a computer-automated safety surveillance system of clinical outcomes registries for cardiovascular devices resulted in the identification of a drug-releasing stent that had significantly ...

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created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Home is best for cardiac rehabilitation

Researchers from the NHS in Cornwall, the Peninsula Medical School, the Agency for Health Technology Assessment in Warsaw and the University of Birmingham have analysed 12 studies relating to cardiac rehabilitation and found ...

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created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Severe asymptomatic heart disease may accompany narrowing in leg arteries

Results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) reveal that one in five patients with narrowing or blockage in arteries that supply ...

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ACC/AHA revised guidelines for the perioperative use of beta blockers to minimize cardiac risk

Cardiac complications around the time of noncardiac surgery are relatively common and can be serious. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) today release a Focused Update to the ...

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0