CABG Reduces Risk of Death vs PCI in Diabetic Patients
Michael O’Riordan
TORONTO, ON — Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is superior to PCI for reducing the risk of all-cause mortality in diabetic patients with multivessel disease, according to the results of a new meta-analysis.
Happy Hearts: Positivity Plus Exercise Linked to Lower CVD Mortality
TILBURG, THE NETHERLANDS — The association between a positive emotional state of mind and lower mortality in patients with ischemic heart disease is mediated by exercise, according to the results of a new study.
Statins Linked to Cataracts in Large, Retrospective Study
Shelley Wood
SAN ANTONIO TX — Another large study is linking statin use to the development of cataracts. The latest, following on a Canadian analysis last year, is a propensity score-matched analysis of over 45 000 subjects in a military healthcare system, published this week in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Editorial Claims Bad Rap for Saturated Fat, Disputes Dietary Dogma
LONDON, UK — The contention that dietary saturated fats aren’t the bad guys that policies and guidelines have portrayed for decades has reemerged in the literature, this time in an "Observations" opinion piece in published in BMJ
Bacterial Toxin May Trigger Multiple Sclerosis
Researchers have identified a bacterial toxin that they believe may be a trigger for multiple sclerosis (MS).
Their study, published in the October issue of PLoS ONE, is the first to identify the culprit bacterium, Clostridium perfringens type B, in humans, and to single out the toxin it produces — known as epsilon toxin — as a probable MS trigger.
High Dietary Acid Load May Increase Diabetes Risk
Janis C. Kelly
Women with a high dietary acid load — typically associated with eating lots of protein but few vegetables — had a 56% higher risk for type 2 diabetes than women in the lowest quartile for dietary acid load, in a new analysis of the Étude epidémiologique auprès des femmes de la Mutuelle Générale de l"Education Nationale — European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (E3N-EPIC) study.
CMS Tool Tells Docs Whether Medicare Will Penalize Them
Robert Lowes
Medicare incentive programs have physicians sometimes feeling as if they are rolling down a rocky hillside inside a 50-gallon steel drum: Will they get hit with a penalty for not electronically prescribing? Or not using an electronic health record (EHR) system in a meaningful way? Or not reporting how they perform on measures of high-quality care?
Novel Prion Disease With Peripheral Symptoms Identified
Sue Hughes
Researchers from the United Kingdom have identified a new clinical syndrome caused by a novel genetic prion disease that causes severe diarrhea and peripheral neuropathies.
Nut Consumption Linked to Lower Mortality
Laurie Barclay, MD
The frequency of nut consumption was inversely associated with total and cause-specific mortality independent of other predictors of death, according to a study from 2 large prospective US cohorts, published in the November 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Few See Renewed Role for Rosiglitazone in Diabetes
Lisa Nainggolan
Following the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision yesterday to lift the restrictions on the type 2 diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline) and any rosiglitazone-containing products or generics, the big question now is whether the product will ever be "resurrected."
FDA Approves First Pulsed Field Ablation System for AF
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the PulseSelect Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System (Medtronic) for the treatment of both paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), the manufacturer has announced.
A Synopsis of the Evidence for the Science and Clinical Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome
A growing appreciation of the pathophysiological interrelatedness of metabolic risk factors such as obesity and diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease has led to the conceptualization of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome. The confluence of metabolic risk factors and chronic kidney disease within cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome is strongly linked to risk for adverse cardiovascular and kidney outcomes.
Professor David Wood, WHF President, on participating in the 70th World Health Assembly
Today marks the opening of the 70th World Health Assembly (WHA), one of the highlights of the global health calendar. At this annual conference, Ministers of Health, civil society and World Health Organization (WHO) experts will meet to discuss the most pressing health issues of our time, including cardiovascular disease (CVD).
As President of the World Heart Federation, I am delighted to welcome a large delegation of member partners, members, Board and staff to the event. Through our leading position in cardiovascular health, we aim to raise the profile of CVD to ensure that global health policies meet the needs of patients and our global membership.
Genetic Risk Could Guide Heart Disease Prevention
The use of genetic sequencing to identify which patients would benefit most from aggressive statin therapy for the primary prevention of a heart attack could soon be a clinical reality. And the discovery of genetic mutations associated with cardiovascular disease — but not linked to any known risk factors — opens the possibility of novel therapies to help people cut the risk for future events.
"Among those at high genetic risk, statins confer a greater benefit for primary prevention of coronary heart disease," said Sekar Kathiresan, MD, from Massachusetts GeneralHospital in Boston and the Broad Institute in Cambridge.
On behalf of Cardioprogress Foundation let us sincerely congratulate you with the World Heart Day!
On behalf of Cardioprogress Foundation let us sincerely congratulate you with the World Heart Day!
World Heart Day is celebrated annually starting from 1999, more than in 100 countries around the globe in the last Sunday of September. And in 2011, the World Heart Day. And from 2011 it has its own confirmed date- the 29th of September. Events, that take place during the World Heart Day are attract attention to the problem of cardiovascular diseases, it"s the world"s biggest intervention against these conditions. It’s utterly important to show the world the importance of healthy life style, and the influence of bad habits on the cardiovascular system.
Trump Pick for CMS Would Ease Up on Physicians
Seema Verma, MPH, President Donald Trump"s choice to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has mixed feelings about electronic health record (EHR) systems. It"s just one example of how she"s on the same page with many physicians regarding healthcare. "My doctor…is staring at her computer instead of looking at me," the healthcare policy consultant told the US Senate Committee on Finance during her confirmation hearing yesterday.
Verma"s comment came in response to a question about the future of the CMS incentive program for meaningful use of EHRs, much criticized by physicians for turning them into data entry clerks. She also recounted seeing signs in physician waiting rooms that apologized for schedule delays due to EHR implementation. Yet another tech challenge she cited was the lack of EHR interoperability, which prevents different programs from freely exchanging data.
Mediterranean Diet With Olive Oil Boosted HDL Function?
More research suggests that a Mediterranean-style diet supplemented with either virgin olive oil or mixed nuts enhances the function of HDL cholesterol[1].
In a subset of 296 patients at high risk of heart disease in thePREDIMED study, cholesterol efflux capacity (CEC), the first step in reverse cholesterol transport, was significantly increased at 1 year compared with baseline in those advised to eat a Mediterranean diet rich in virgin olive oil (VOO) (P=0.018) or mixed nuts (P=0.013) rather than a reduced-fat diet.
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