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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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Statins reduce the incidence of adverse cardiovascular events. Some observational non-randomized studies have suggested that low cholesterol levels and/or statins may increase the risk of cancer or other non-cardiovascular issues.
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New treatment for TB; safety of dabigatran; quality of antidepressants; systolic hypertension treatment; and FDA actions.
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Shah et al used an administrative database, the California State Inpatient Database from the Healthcare Utilization Project, to analyze the short and intermediate success and complication rates associated with catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF).
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Newer more sensitive troponin assays have the potential to identify acute myocardial infarction (AMI) earlier, but some detect troponin in 50% of normal populations, which renders them clinically useless.
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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.
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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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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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