The FDA's Circulatory System Devices Panel yesterday voted against the approval of Medtronic's implantable hemodynamic monitor, the pacemaker-sized Chronicle,...
Hispanic women's risk of cardiovascular disease is comparable to that of white women who are about a decade older, according to new research presented today at...
Residents of New Orleans with hypertension had a great deal of difficulty adhering to their medications after Hurricane Katrina, a new study presented this...
A larger than normal proportion of T cells express insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) in patients with Graves' disease, researchers report in the...
It is well known that people with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of pancreatic cancer. Findings published in the February issue of the British Journal...
New analysis of data from the Women's Health Study (WHS) shows an association between migraine with aura and hemorrhagic stroke risk in women. Migraine,...
Residents of New Orleans with hypertension had a great deal of difficulty adhering to their medications after Hurricane Katrina, a new study presented this...
A study of patients admitted to the hospital for stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) shows that almost 30% of these patients had low-density lipoprotein...
High-dose statins have been demonstrated to reduce cardiovascular outcomes among patients with a history of stroke or TIA. In a study of such patients by...
Research shows that patients with type 1 diabetes often sleep through overnight episodes of hypoglycemia, increasing the risk that they will experience...
The US Congress House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has sent a letter to drug-eluting-stent (DES) manufacturers Boston...
The opening of a specialized cardiac hospital is associated with a regional rise in the rate of coronary revascularization utilization, a new study has shown...
Arterial stiffness is not an independent risk factor for cognitive decline or dementia, according to results of a study published in the March issue of Stroke....
A study of type 2 diabetics with depression confirms that depression has a negative impact on glycemic control, researchers report, and "affirms the importance...
Among patients with severe heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction and cardiac dyssynchrony, patients with diabetes benefit as much from...
Two weeks in advance of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2007 Scientific Sessions, negative results of the MERLIN TIMI-36 trial testing ranolazine...
A biochemical mediator of angiogenesis in heart muscle regulates the transition of cardiac hypertrophy--an initially useful adaptive response to increased...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the expanded use of atorvastatin (Lipitor, Pfizer) to include patients at high risk for cardiovascular...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the blood- pressure drug aliskiren (Tekturna, Novartis), the first new antihypertensive medication to be...
Pioglitazone significantly reduces the risk of first-time stroke and recurrent stroke in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes, a European group reports. Dr....
Bipolar radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation can simplify atrial fibrillation ablation procedures without impairing effectiveness, according to a report in...
Children with type 1 diabetes often have sustained abnormalities in serum lipid measurements, according to a report in the February issue of The Journal of...
Lactation may offset some of the adverse impact of pregnancy on high- density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels, suggests a study reported in the March...
Long-term follow-up results of the Invasive Versus Conservative Treatment in Unstable Coronary Syndromes (ICTUS) study [1], presented in 2006 at the World...
Brazilian researchers have identified four main predictors of a poor prognosis in Chagas heart disease. Dr Anis Rassi Jr (Anis Rassi Hospital, Goiânia,...
US researchers have found that electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities in asymptomatic postmenopausal women are independently associated with increased risk for...
Previous research on the study cohort from the WHI confirmed that ECG findings could predict an increased risk for events and mortality related to coronary...
Individuals with long-lived parents have advantageous cardiovascular risk profiles in middle age compared with those whose parents died younger, a new analysis...
Recovery after an acute MI is markedly worse in patients who report financial problems with healthcare, a new prospective study shows [1]. The findings...
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