Diastolic Dysfunction a Common Risk Factor for Cognitive Decline
Diastolic dysfunction, a common and often undiagnosed condition in older individuals, could be contributing to the increasing burden of cognitive decline, a new study suggests.
Exploring Postinfarction Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia With Entrainment Mapping
Ventricular tachycardia late after myocardial infarction is usually due to reentry in the infarct region. These reentry circuits can be large, complex and difficult to define, impeding study in the electrophysiology laboratory and making catheter ablation difficult.
Appeals to “stay at home” during COVID-19 do not apply to heart attacks
People experiencing heart attacks should immediately phone the emergency services – even during the COVID-19 pandemic. The urgent call from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) comes as hospitals in Europe and beyond report dramatic reductions in heart attack admissions.
Vitamin K Antagonists and Osteoporotic Fractures: Insights From Comparisons With the NOACs
Vitamin K antagonists (VKAs; warfarin mostly, but also acenocoumarol, phenprocoumon, phenindione, and fluindione) have been a cornerstone in medicine as the first and the only available oral anticoagulants (OACs) for clinical use for over half a century.
High haemoglobin A1c level is a possible risk factor for ventricular fibrillation in sudden cardiac arrest among non-diabetic individuals in the general population
This study aimed to establish whether higher levels of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) are associated with increased sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) risk in non-diabetic individuals.
Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?
The most distinctive comorbidities of 32 non-survivors from a group of 52 intensive care unit patients with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the study by Xiaobo Yang and colleagues were cerebrovascular diseases (22%) and diabetes (22%).
Mitral Regurgitation Management Focused Update: Key Points
This is an update to the 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC) expert consensus decision pathway (ECDP) on the management of mitral regurgitation (MR).
Europe to personalise prevention of second heart attacks
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the top cause of death in Europe and worldwide, accounting for 47% of deaths in women and 39% of deaths in men.1 CVD costs the EU more than €210 billion a year,2 a sum expected to escalate with an ageing population and the cost of novel therapies.
Eating meat, including chicken, linked to heart disease risk in study
Eating meat has been linked to heart disease in the latest study to suggest the food could pose some risk to our health.
Periodontitis increases the risk of suffering from future atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
It was already known, but so far there was no rigorous and exhaustive report that corroborated the link between periodontitis and the future risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Now two of the international reference entities in the field of periodontal and cardiovascular health, the European Federation of Periodontics (VET) and the World Heart Federation (WHF), publish a consensus powerful that leaves no room for doubt.
FDA Okays First Extravascular ICD System
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Medtronic's novel "extravascular" implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (Aurora EV-ICD) system, which uses a single lead implanted substernally to allow anti-tachycardia pacing and low-energy defibrillation while avoiding the vascular space for lead placement.
New Tool to Guide Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Researchers developed TJ-ICE–guided TAVR to facilitate implanting a heart valve at an optimal depth, guided by direct visualization of the membranous septum (MS) during the procedure.
ACC Clinical Bulletin Focuses on Cardiac Implications of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The bulletin provides background on the epidemic, which was first reported in late December 2019, and looks at early cardiac implications from case reports.
Eating An Egg A Day Is A-OK, Despite Heart Disease History, New Study Suggests
Interest in high-protein and high-fat diets like the keto diet keeps growing, but concerns about the health effects of many foods on those diets remain high. For at least one of those foods—the simple protein-packed egg—a new, large-scale study suggests that devouring one a day is fine for most people, even those with a history of heart disease.
Marijuana may cause the same cardiovascular damage as cigarettes
More than two million Americans with heart disease are using or have used marijuana - and it could put them at risk of dangerously heavy bleeding and other complications, a new study warns.
Don't Stop the Statin! Christopher P. Cannon
Lipid lowering with statins is one of the most beneficial therapies in cardiovascular medicine, with evidence from hundreds of randomized clinical trials, including >25 large cardiovascular outcomes trials in the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) collaboration.
Expert point of view
Strategies to Overcome Residual Risk During Statins Era
PreHT 2020|Vilnius | Lithuania | 2-5 April 2020
7th International Conference on Prehypertension, Hypertension, Metabolic Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease (PreHT 2020)
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