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Statins' Effect on Pneumonia Mortality Murky in Meta-Analysis
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Door-to-Balloon Time Cuts Spiked False Activations
Major Finding: In 2007-2011, door-to-balloon times for STEMI fell from 73 to 64 minutes, while false activations rose from 23% to 48%.Data Source...
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Lowering Cholesterol in Childhood Pays Off Later
Major Finding: Each of the nine SNPs was consistently associated with a 55% reduction in CHD risk for each 39 mg/dL lower lifetime exposure to LDL...
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NSAID Use Post MI Boosted A Fib and Stroke
Major Finding: Among NSAID users, the incidence of atrial fibrillation in the post-MI patients was 26.9 cases/1,000 person-years and the stroke...
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Acupuncture Improves Heart Rate Variability in CHD
Major Finding: Compared with sham-treated controls, traditional acupuncture recipients had 17% more high frequency heart rate variability as...
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Ob.Gyn. Offices Ideal for Heart Risk Screening
Major Finding: Of those screened, 87% of the women turned out to have cardiovascular risk factors and 42% had cardiovascular symptoms.Data Source...
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Psoriasis Not Independent Cardiac Risk Factor, Study Finds
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Two Million Americans Estimated to Have Congenital Heart Disease
Major Finding: About 2 million American adults and children were living with a congenital heart disease as of 2010.Data Source: The estimate came...
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Two More Clopidogrel Resistance Genes Found
Major Finding: The overall frequency of the ATP2B2 variant linked to platelet activity in the presence of clopidogrel is 27% in the white...
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Renal Denervation Outcomes for Resistant Hypertension Persist at 3 Years
Major Finding: At baseline the 153 participants had a mean office blood pressure of 175/98 mm Hg despite being on an average of 5.1...
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Rapid Rise in Systolic BP Midlife Predicts Greater LVMI
Major Finding: The rate of increase in blood pressure in early midlife is a better predictor of increased left ventricular mass at age 60-64 than...