by European Society of Cardiology Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nearly one-third of patients with a stroke of unknown cause have a heart rhythm disorder that can be treated to prevent another stroke. That’s the finding of the NOR-FIB study presented at EHRA 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). In the...
by American Heart Association Credit: CC0 Public Domain A risk score based on a gene map predicted the likelihood of high blood pressure leading to heart problems or stroke in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to a study published today in the American Heart Association’s peer-reviewed journal Hypertension. This tool may be especially useful in...
by European Society of Cardiology Credit: CC0 Public Domain When should patients and family members undergo genetic assessment for a heart condition? Find out in an international consensus document published in EP Europace, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and presented at EHRA 2022, a scientific congress of the ESC. “This is...
by University of Alberta Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For the past century people with weak hearts have been told to lower their salt intake, but until now there has been little scientific evidence behind the recommendation. The largest randomized clinical trial to look at sodium reduction and heart failure reported results simultaneously in The Lancet and at the American College...
by Christian Doerig, Genia Burchall, Jack Adderley and Tayla Williamson, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Antibiotics, together with antivirals and anti-parasitic drugs, can save the lives of people who’ve contracted an infectious disease. But the rise of drug-resistance means new strategies are needed. At the end of last year, the World Health Organization declared antimicrobial resistance one of...
by Uppsala University Posttraumatic stress from baseline to follow-up. The panels present pooled, model-based group means and 95% CIs and the distributions of unimputed observations (N=179). PCL-5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. Credit: Journal of Medical Internet Research (2022). DOI: 10.2196/31419 Support offered by a phone app...
by American College of Cardiology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) did not experience any improvement in their ability to exercise vigorously after taking the experimental heart failure drug omecamtiv mecarbil, in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Annual Scientific Session. Many patients who...
by American College of Cardiology Example of Plaque Regression, Lipid Regression, and Fibrous Cap Thickening in a Trial Patient. All images were obtained from the same lesion in the same patient and matched for the 2 time points of intracoronary imaging investigation. For intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS), external elastic lamina borders (green line) and lumen borders...
by University of California, Los Angeles Osteoblasts actively synthesizing osteoid. Credit: Robert M. Hunt; Wikipedia. Physicians may be able to determine if menopause-related bone loss is already in progress or about to begin by measuring the level of a hormone that declines as women approach their final menstrual period, new UCLA research finds. The findings...
by Michael Addelman, University of Manchester Time to Antibiotic Therapy. Comparison of time to antibiotic during reference and study periods. The upper and lower bounds of the confidence interval (95% CI, −5.96 to 4.23 minutes) lie within the Cohen d margins. The mean difference in time to antibiotic between reference and study periods is −0.87...
