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New Focus on Renin-Angiotensin System Role in COVID-19 Two new studies have been published that further focus attention on how the renin–angiotensin system — and specifically the ACE2 receptor — may be involved in COVID-19 infection.

Multiple Sclerosis Tied to Increased Risk for Stroke, CVD, Death Multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with an increased risk for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), stroke, and death, a finding that is unexplained by traditional risk factors, new research suggests.

Diastolic Dysfunction a Common Risk Factor for Cognitive Decline Diastolic dysfunction, a common and often undiagnosed condition in older individuals, could be contributing to the increasing burden of cognitive decline, a new study suggests.

Exploring Postinfarction Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia With Entrainment Mapping Ventricular tachycardia late after myocardial infarction is usually due to reentry in the infarct region. These reentry circuits can be large, complex and difficult to define, impeding study in the electrophysiology laboratory and making catheter ablation difficult.

Appeals to “stay at home” during COVID-19 do not apply to heart attacks People experiencing heart attacks should immediately phone the emergency services – even during the COVID-19 pandemic. The urgent call from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) comes as hospitals in Europe and beyond report dramatic reductions in heart attack admissions.

Vitamin K Antagonists and Osteoporotic Fractures: Insights From Comparisons With the NOACs Vitamin K antagonists (VKAs; warfarin mostly, but also acenocoumarol, phenprocoumon, phenindione, and fluindione) have been a cornerstone in medicine as the first and the only available oral anticoagulants (OACs) for clinical use for over half a century.

High haemoglobin A1c level is a possible risk factor for ventricular fibrillation in sudden cardiac arrest among non-diabetic individuals in the general population This study aimed to establish whether higher levels of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) are associated with increased sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) risk in non-diabetic individuals.

Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection? The most distinctive comorbidities of 32 non-survivors from a group of 52 intensive care unit patients with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the study by Xiaobo Yang and colleagues were cerebrovascular diseases (22%) and diabetes (22%).

Mitral Regurgitation Management Focused Update: Key Points This is an update to the 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC) expert consensus decision pathway (ECDP) on the management of mitral regurgitation (MR).

Europe to personalise prevention of second heart attacks Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the top cause of death in Europe and worldwide, accounting for 47% of deaths in women and 39% of deaths in men.1 CVD costs the EU more than €210 billion a year,2 a sum expected to escalate with an ageing population and the cost of novel therapies.

AHA Advisory Endorses Endovascular Thrombectomy for Large Core Ischemic Stroke Results of six recent trials of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for patients with large-core ischemic stroke (LCIS) provide strong evidence for the benefit of this intervention compared with medical management (MM), a new Science Advisory from the American Heart Association (AHA) has concluded.

AI-Enhanced ECG Predicts Hypertension, Related Risks An artificial intelligence–ECG risk estimation model designed to predict incident hypertension (AIRE-HTN) identifies cases and stratifies the risk for adverse outcomes in addition to traditional markers.

THE FEATS OF DOCTORS DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (WORLD WAR II) During the war years, more than 700 thousand doctors and medical professionals worked at the front. At the end of the war, 12.5% of all these people were killed, and this figure seriously exceeds the losses in each individual military unit. But despite the danger, they never gave up, and in the most extreme situations only the iron will helped them to pull hundreds of people from the other world, and again to return to the battlefields. They achieved amazing results, and during the entire war, thanks to medical workers, about 72 percent of wounded soldiers and 90 percent of sick people, that is, approximately 17 million people, returned to the system.

The Congress for Cardiology and Internal medicine of Asian and CIS countries On April 26 - 27, 2019, the Congress for Cardiology and Internal medicine of Asian and CIS countries was held in Dushanbe (Tajikistan). The congress was organized by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Tajikistan and the Cardioprogress Foundation. In the opening ceremony, the Minister, Professor Olimzoda Nasim Khoja addressed the participants with greetings.

Stress-Related Disorders Increase CVD Risk Stress-related disorders may increase the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially during the first year after diagnosis, a large study shows.

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FDA's Assessment of Currently Marketed ARB drug products FDA has worked with manufacturers to swiftly remove angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) drug products with impurity levels above interim acceptable limits. Those products have been removed from the market and have been posted in our recall lists for ARB products.

Three or more eggs a week increase your risk of heart disease and early death, study says It's been debated for years: Are eggs good or bad for you? People who eat an added three or four eggs a week or 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol per day, have a higher risk of both heart disease and early death compared with those who eat fewer eggs, new research finds.

e-Cigarettes Linked to Increased Stroke, MI Risk Use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) is linked to a significantly increased risk for "hard" adverse outcomes, such as stroke and myocardial infarction (MI), new research suggests. Among more than 400,000 respondents older than 18 years from the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey, almost 66,800 reported having ever used e-cigarettes.

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