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New Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health: Meeting People Where They Are
The American Heart Association emphasizes the importance of an overall lifetime heart-healthy diet and the vital role of nutrition early in life.
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Heart Health and Cognitive Decline: Who Fares Better?
More middle-age men might be living with various cardiovascular risk factors and diseases, but the associated negative effects on cognition could be worse for women of the same age with the same conditions.
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Significance of Flail Mitral Leaflet and Wall-Impinging Regurgitant Flow
Using cardiac MRI as a gold standard, the presence of a flail mitral leaflet or a wall-impinging mitral regurgitant jet on transthoracic echocardiography were associated with severe mitral regurgitation, but not diagnostic of it.
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Jugular Venous Pressure by Bedside Ultrasound
Using a handheld point-of-care ultrasound device to estimate right atrial pressure from images of the jugular vein resulted in a higher imaging success rate vs. visual inspection and a reasonably accurate estimation, especially in those with elevated right atrial pressures.
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Importance of Exercise Testing-Associated Ventricular Ectopy
A study of asymptomatic subjects without known cardiovascular disease undergoing treadmill exercise testing and followed for a mean of 20 years showed high-grade premature ventricular contractions during exercise recovery (but not during exercise) are predictive of subsequent cardiovascular mortality.
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Post-TAVR Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Bleed Less on Vitamin K Antagonists vs. Edoxaban
In this randomized trial of post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement patients with atrial fibrillation, edoxaban was noninferior to vitamin K antagonists with regard to a composite of adverse endpoints, but was associated with a higher rate of major bleeding.
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New Treatment for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
A study of the echocardiographic characteristics of symptomatic patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy treated with mavacamten showed a persistent 30-week improvement in several key pathophysiologic characteristics.
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Post-Exercise Premature Ventricular Contraction, or Aberrancy?
The ECG in the figure is a post-exercise tracing. There are four wider and slightly early occurring beats in the long lead rhythm strips. Are these beats premature ventricular contractions or premature atrial contractions conducted with aberration?
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Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir Tablets (Paxlovid)
The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for the first oral regimen for the treatment of COVID-19.
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Incidence, Prevalence, and Long-Term Consequences of Small Fiber Neuropathy
Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) associated with diabetes and other causes is more likely to progress to large-fiber polyneuropathy, deteriorate faster, and cause worse disability vs. slow progression with idiopathic SFN.