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Redefining CVD risk: Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome
“Clearly defining the patient with CKM syndrome, and providing new approaches for CKM syndrome staging and risk prediction, will help health care...
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Spreading out daily meals and snacks may boost heart failure survival
A daily eating window of 11 or more hours, compared with less than 11 hours, corresponded to a greater than 40% drop in risk for CV mortality over...
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Supplemental oxygen fails to improve echocardiographic measures in PE patients
The proportions of patients with normalized RV/LV ratios were similar with and without supplemental oxygen.
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Semaglutide win in HFpEF with obesity regardless of ejection fraction: STEP-HFpEF
It remains unknown, however, “whether the improvement in health status, functional status, and reduced inflammation” will translate to reduced...
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Burnout in medical profession higher among women, younger clinicians
A burned-out physician is most likely a young woman practicing in primary care.
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Home-based exercise benefits patients with PAD
Compared with supervised treadmill exercise, home-based walking was associated with significantly improved mean 6-minute walking distance.
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Lead pollutants as harmful to health as particulate matter
The economic consequences of increased exposure to lead are already immense, especially in low- and middle-income countries, according to study...
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Depression tied to higher all-cause and cardiovascular mortality
Approximately 11%-16% of the positive associations could be explained by lifestyle factors such as excess alcohol consumption, overeating, and...
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Optimal antiplatelet regimen in ‘bi-risk’ ACS?
OPT-BIRISK tested an antiplatelet strategy “in challenging patients at increased risk for bleeding and ischemic events, but I don’t think we can...
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The how and why of quad therapy in reduced-EF heart failure
“Yet, when we look at their actual implementation in clinical practice, we’ve seen this slow and variable uptake.”
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History of heart transplant tied to worse pregnancy outcome
The findings demonstrate the importance of counseling HT patients at early gestational ages “to provide information about anticipated risks in...