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Feb 18
The patient is a 72-year-old man with a history of ischemic cardiomyopathy (LV ejection fraction, 30%–35%) and NYHA class II/III heart-failure symptom... -
Feb 17
Statins & Diabetes: Following the recent observation from JUPITER of an increased risk of developing diabetes among patients taking rosu... -
Feb 17
In this week's "The Expert Is In" blog on CardioExchange, I interview Rodney Hayward about his very interesting and soon-to-be controversial paper jus... -
Feb 16 HRT & Increased Risk: A new report from the Women's Health Initiative in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds "no suggestion of a decreased ...
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Feb 12 Bill Clinton's stent procedure received enormous amounts of attention in the news. Some of the reports even contained various doses of truthful inform...
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Feb 12 We welcome Rodney A. Hayward, MD, to this forum to talk about his recent article Optimizing Statin Treatment for Primary Prevention of Coronary A...
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Feb 11 (Note to readers: CardioExchange invited experts with divergent opinions about this study to participate in a debate. The first part of the debate, in...
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Feb 11 Myocarditis & H1N1 in Children: In an expedited research correspondence appearing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Bratincsák...
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Feb 10 Childhood Obesity & CV Disease: Researchers followed 4,857 American Indian children without diabetes who were born between 1945 and 1984. The...
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Feb 10 New Indication for Crestor: The FDA on Monday granted a primary prevention indication for rosuvastatin (Crestor, AstraZeneca). The decisionis based on...
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Feb 9
In two recent studies, second-generation drug-eluting stents were compared with first-generation paclitaxel-eluting stents. In COMPARE, the ever... -
Feb 9 What Does a Zero Calcium Score Mean? In a high risk group scheduled for angiography, having a zero calcium score does not mean a zero chance of corona...
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Feb 7
Last week, I posted a Voices blog detailing my concerns about a recent randomized controlled trial of varenicline that, in my opinion, was just anothe... -
Feb 6 PPIs & Clopidogrel-- A retrospective analysis of 820 patients at the Washington Hospital Center who received clopidogrel after a drug-eluting sten...
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Feb 4 Weight Loss at High Altitude: Obese people lose weight at high altitudes, according to a new study in Obesity. Lippl et al. studied 20 obese patients ...
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Feb 3 Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair: The use of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) over open surgery to treat descending thoracic aortic...
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Feb 2 A Different View on Salt: In the face of popular proposals to cut dietary salt, Michael Alderman, in a JAMA Commentary, points to the paucity of rando...
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Feb 1 ENDEAVOR IV: One-year results of the ENDEAVOR IV trial comparing zotarolimus-eluting stents (ZES) and paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) have been publis...
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Jan 29 Healthcare Reform: American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown issued a statement on Obama's State of the Union Address. Brown emphasized the AHA's "st...
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Jan 28 In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, vitamin D supplements did not improve functional capacity or quality of life in older heart f...
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Sandeep Goyal shares his experience at the Heart Rhythm Society meeting in Denver: 
