People with diabetes and hypertension are less likely to comply with nutritional recommendations for lowering blood pressure than people with hypertension...
A new medical technology company--this time in France--has announced it is joining the sparse ranks of innovators hoping to develop the first total artificial...
African Americans with hypertensive nephrosclerosis (chronic kidney disease [CKD] caused by high blood pressure [BP]) have a higher risk of progressing to...
For patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on dialysis who also must be treated for coronary artery disease, stents provide the best 1-year survival,...
Music may speak to the heart, but it should do so via the ears: that's the message from a new analysis showing that while iPod MP3 players do not interfere...
A phase 2 trial has shown that interferon beta-1b (IFNB-1b) (Betaferon/Betaseron, Bayer Healthcare)--a drug currently used to treat multiple sclerosis...
Heart-failure patients participating in a highly structured exercise program in the HF-ACTION trial, reported here at the American Heart Association (AHA) 2008...
Researchers who fitted study subjects with "air-pollution vests" to continuously monitor exposure to both indoor and outdoor air pollutants say that people are...
In the largest and reportedly most clinically detailed population- based study of carotid endarterectomy to date, researchers outline 11 risk factors for poor...
Atherosclerosis progression as gauged by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) was unaffected by a year and a half of treatment with rosiglitazone (Avandia,...
An international genomewide association study has identified 6 genetic loci associated with serum lipid levels in European populations. This brings to 22 the...
Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who received dronedarone (Multaq, Sanofi-Aventis) were less often hospitalized for cardiovascular reasons regardless of...
Custom-compounded plant-derived hormone cream may not only improve menopausal symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and pain, it may also provide an...
In the largest study to date looking at the issue, researchers report that survival in heart-transplant recipients is significantly reduced if recipients...
In the first study to ever assess the prognostic value of a change in heart rate (HR) over a number of years, French doctors have found that there is a...
The dose of platelets given by transfusion to cancer patients who become thrombocytopenic can be halved without increasing the risk of bleeding, according to...
A new study attempting to model the future risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and its price, based on past and current exposure to second-hand smoke, has...
The advent of transvenous leads did away with thoracotomies when putting in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) systems, making the procedure simpler...
In the decision as to whether to replace an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) that has become subject to a safety advisory, the guiding equation is...
Therapeutic instead of prophylactic platelet transfusions are safe, feasible, and would reduce costs considerably, say German researchers reporting the first...
Acute-MI patients who possess the genetic variant linked previously with variability in the antiplatelet response to clopidogrel (Plavix, Bristol-Myers...
The risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation went up sharply with increasing resting heart rate in patients receiving drug therapy for hypertension in the...
The medical treatment of inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) looks set to be confined to off-label therapy for the foreseeable...
A new study suggests that between 1998 and 1999, Medicare managed- care plans did not have a positive effect on the appropriate use of carotid endarterectomy...
More evidence is available supporting the preemptive use of statins in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, only this time the benefit extends to patients...
Elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure who go on beta blockers for the first time and continue them after discharge can expect prolonged survival and...
Early postnatal prophylactic granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) corrects neutropenia but does not lower risk for sepsis or improve...
Results of 2 new MRI analyses from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS) show that hormone therapy (HT) is associated with increased brain...
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