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Although electrocardiogram (ECG) left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), especially with ST-T changes (strain pattern), is known to be of prognostic value in patients with aortic stenosis, its valve in patients who are being followed is unclear.
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The Asymptomatic Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Evaluation in Pacemaker Patients and the Atrial Fibrillation Reduction Atrial Pacing Trial (ASSERT) tested two hypotheses.
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After acute coronary syndromes (ACS), patients remain at risk for recurrent cardiovascular events. Antiplatelet agents are the mainstay of secondary preventive strategies aimed at reducing the rate of recurrent events.
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The management of asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) is controversial. Patients meeting standard echocardiographic criteria for severe stenosis have a variety of pressure gradients and flow rates that can be divided into four categories based on normal flow vs low flow (NF vs LF) and low gradient vs high gradient (LG vs HG), where LF is defined as a stroke volume index (SVI) of < 35 mL/m2 and LG is a mean gradient < 40 mmHg.
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) can cause symptomatic claudication and it can reduce quality of life.
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New treatment for prostate cancer; avastin and breast cancer; new CMS disclosure rule; and FDA actions.
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In this study, Freeman and colleagues analyzed data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry-ICD Registry (NCDR-ICD Registry) to examine the effects of physician procedure volume on in-hospital complications and death.
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This pan-European multicultural study investigates whether after initial weight loss in overweight subjects, a subsequent diet of high or low carbohydrate (glycemic index) or protein diets helped subjects maintain their new weight better.
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In this paper, Priori and colleagues from a consortium of 10 Italian arrhythmia centers enrolled Brugada syndrome patients to evaluate the role of programmed electrical stimulation in risk stratification and to look for other novel predictors of outcome in Brugada syndrome patients.
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The prevalence of obesity is increasing throughout the western world at an alarming rate. Obesity has been associated with higher rates of cardiovascular events, although the converse association (between weight loss and reduction in cardiovascular events) has been harder to prove.
