Considerable Proportion of Seniors Have Asymptomatic Valvular Heart Disease
In a recent study, the rate of prevalence of clinically significant VHD was 2.4 percent
Certain Diets May Protect Against Heart Disease With Type 1 Diabetes
Higher adherence tied to lower inflammatory marker levels over time
Obesity Modifies Link Between Birth Weight, Metabolic Phenotypes
Associations between lower birth weight and adverse metabolic phenotypes are more pronounced in children with obesity
PREVENT Equations Show Lower ASCVD Risk Than Pooled Cohort Equations
Mean 10-year ASCVD risk 5.4 percent using pooled cohort equations versus 2.9 percent using PREVENT equations
Transcatheter PDA Closure Increasingly Used for Very Low Birth-Weight Infants
Higher survival seen for VLBW infants undergoing transcatheter closure, but similar LOS, neonatal complications
Continual Cuffless BP Monitoring Can Classify Time-in-Target-Range Accurately
Configurations paralleling ambulatory and home BP monitoring inaccurately classified considerable proportion of patients versus reference TTR
New Report Calls for More Research on Women’s Health Issues
More Women Than Men Experience Nonphysical Violence in Health Care Workforce
Women more likely to experience verbal abuse, sexual harassment, bullying, while men more likely to experience physical violence
Pulsed Field Ablation Demonstrates Favorable Safety Profile for A-Fib
No esophageal complications, pulmonary vein stenosis, persistent phrenic palsy observed; stroke was rare and death even rarer
Proteomics Panel Not Useful for Predicting Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
In recent study, no proteins were selected to augment the clinical and demographic covariates using an elastic net model
