Value of CAC in predicting heart attack, stroke
Coronary artery calcium testing trumps cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and other risk factors in predicting heart attacks and deaths.
Coronary artery calcium testing trumps cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and other risk factors in predicting heart attacks and deaths.
Academic researchers have found that breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, altering its cardiovascular protective qualities so that it actually contributes to… read more.
Academic researchers have found that breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, altering its cardiovascular protective qualities so that it actually contributes to… read more.
How do you measure the pain of a patient who can’t communicate? A Rhode Island Hospital researcher studied an observational pain scale in cardiac surgery patients, and found… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – A routine flu vaccine appears to lower the risk of heart attack or stroke by more than 50 per cent among persons who have… read more.
Report from the (TCT) Scientific Symposium, 27 October – 1 November, San Francisco. Anti-clotting agent helps reduce the risk of intraprocedural events during percutaneous coronary intervention.
Report from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Scientific Symposium, 27 October – 1 November, San Francisco. In a clinical trial, a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve met the key… read more.
Report from the (TCT) Scientific Symposium, 27 October – 1 November, San Francisco. A new study found that both drug-eluting stents (DES) with biocompatible polymers and DES with… read more.
Report from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Scientific Symposium, 27 October – 1 November, San Francisco. Length of infection increases risk for atherosclerosis. HIV infection, not antiretroviral therapy… read more.
Report from the (TCT) Scientific Symposium, 27 October – 1 November, San Francisco. Clinical trial finds that a strategy of using of a bare metal stent in the… read more.
Report from the (TCT) Scientific Symposium, 27 October – 1 November, San Francisco. A clinical trial shows that rapidly cooling patients who have suffered ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI,… read more.
Report from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Scientific Symposium, 27 October – 1 November, San Francisco. Results of the EUROMAX trial presented at TCT 2013; findings simultaneously published… read more.
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