Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation Cuts Risk for Dementia, Death
Findings persisted across age, sex, and comorbidities
Most Fish Oil Supplement Labels Make Health Benefit Claims
Additionally, wide variability seen across supplements for total daily dose
Residents Trained During First Wave of Pandemic Experienced Less PTSD
Work hours, workload, and medical errors may be targets for preventing PTSD among residents
ESC: Bystander Defibrillation Improves Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival
Effect was significant even for EMS response times as short as two to four minutes
Lifestyle Risk Factors, Cardiometabolic Diseases Prevalent in Young Adults
In a recent study, prevalence of having two or more lifestyle risk factors 45.2 percent
ESC: Recurrent Myocardial Infarction Often Unrecognized
Most patients recognize chest pain as MI symptom, but less than one-third recognize cold sweating, shortness of breath, radiating pain
Aspirin Underused in Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Estimates of use increased from 16.6 percent in low-income countries to 65.0 percent in high-income countries
Prognostic Factors ID’d for Stage IIIb AL Amyloidosis
Symptom onset to diagnosis longer than six months, bone marrow plasmacytosis ≥10 percent associated with shorter overall survival
Canagliflozin Reduces Cardiorenal Biomarkers in T2D
Increase in biomarkers and multimarker panel linked to increased risk for primary cardiorenal outcome
Heterogeneity Found in Appropriate Use Criteria for Imaging of CAD
CMS-qualified AUC for coronary artery disease heterogeneous, sometimes conflict with respect to appropriateness
