Delays in the time to defibrillation are common in hospitalized patients with cardiac arrest, with more than 30% of patients with cardiac arrest due to...
A study comparing the metabolic effects of two diets, one a low- carbohydrate, high-fat, Atkins-like diet and the other a more traditional high-carbohydrate,...
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) has been associated with a significantly increased risk for cerebrovascular or cardiovascular disease, a new study has shown. ...
In elderly patients with documented coronary heart disease (CHD), statins reduce all-cause mortality, as well as CHD mortality, nonfatal myocardial infarction,...
A pair of articles in the January 1, 2008 Annals of Internal Medicine brings together the existing literature to address issues that have persisted since the...
In what is likely the most rigorous evaluation to date of surrogate end points in modern-day stent trials, researchers report that late- loss (LL) and...
Obese, relatively young women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are at increased risk for early subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, independent of the...
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) has released a statement on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and cardiovascular risk, emphasizing...
Compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES), sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) appear to decrease the risk of in-stent late luminal loss in diabetics with...
An abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) in a young, highly trained athlete might be the first expression of underlying cardiomyopathy, a new study suggests, and...
The sequence variant on chromosome 9p21 that increases the risk of MI and was last year hailed as one of the most significant genetic risk factors for heart...
A new study shows that acute-stress responses to the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 were associated with a 53% increased incidence of cardiovascular ailments...
Take a look at the following studies, recently in the news, that your patients may ask you about. Vaccine Preservative Not Linked to Risk for Autism Archives...
Ethanol intake is well known as a potential cause of hypoglycemia in diabetic patients and now new findings from an animal study shed light on the mechanisms...
Consuming sweets and chewing gum with sugar substitutes may help the weight-conscious slash calories, but excessive use of the sweetener sorbitol can cause...
The results of the long-awaited and controversial ENHANCE trial, finally announced today, have shown no benefit of the combination of ezetimibe (Zetia,...
Proponents of cardiac CT angiography (CTA) are, in the words of one clinician, "in uproar and panic" over a proposed national coverage determination (NCD) by...
The authors of a Perspective on drug-eluting stent (DES) safety and efficacy appearing in the Annals of Internal Medicine next month and published online...
In a new study, published online January 13, 2008 in Nature Medicine, scientists showed that the dream of growing new human hearts to replace damaged ones is...
A new study has shown that calcium supplementation might increase vascular events in elderly women [1]. The findings are somewhat unexpected, because previous...
The ENHANCE study, showing no difference between simvastatin plus ezetimibe (Zetia/Vytorin, Merck and Schering-Plough) compared with simvastatin alone on the...
Three new studies published online today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology attempt to replicate, in large prospective studies, results...
A small meta-analysis published last week, which attempted to address the inconsistencies in the data on fish-oil supplementation in patients with implantable...
A novel treatment that triggers a nonspecific immune response believed to attenuate inflammatory processes associated with heart failure failed to improve...
New mortality data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that, since 1999, death rates from coronary heart disease and stroke have...
The debate surrounding the ENHANCE trial took a bit of a twist this past week when attention turned to the LDL-cholesterol hypothesis, with some experts...
NMT Medical announced today that it is halting MIST II, its US-based trial evaluating the use of its patent foramen ovale (PFO)ˇVclosure device to treat...
Abstract Increasing evidence points to insulin resistance as a primary etiologic factor in the development of nonischemic heart failure (HF). The myocardium...
Statin use is not associated with an increased or decreased risk of breast cancer, according to a population-based, case-control study published in the January...
More than 10 days since results of the ENHANCE trial were made public in a press release issued by Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, the makers of the...
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