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The NIH has halted the estrogen-alone wing of the Womens Health Initiative a year before its scheduled end.
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Metabolic syndrome, but not obesity alone, was associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events. The presence of MS in individuals with angiographic CAD at study entry substantially increased the likelihood of death and major adverse cardiovascular events.
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SYNERGY: The superior yield of the new Strategy of Enoxaparin, Revascularization, and Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors trial was presented by Dr. Kenneth Mahaffey and colleagues; WATCH: The Warfarin and Antiplatelet Trial in Chronic Heart failure was presented by Barry Massie, MD, from San Francisco.
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Sulfonamide Antibiotics and Sulfonamide Nonantibiotics; Autoantibodies
Before Onset of SLE; Prevention of VTE with Ximelagatran; Combined
Levothyroxine Plus Liothyronine Compared to Levothyroxine Alone in
Primary Hypothyroidism; Specific Site Involvement in Fixed Drug
Eruption; Anticoagulation Therapy for Stroke Prevention in Patients
with Atrial Fibrillation
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Although there are reports that BNP is elevated in systolic as well as diastolic dysfunction, its diagnostic use for the latter is unclear. Thus, Mottram and associates prospectively studied 72 ambulatory patients with hypertension under treatment and exertional dyspnea.
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Since most forms of syncope involve an abnormal vasovagal response, Lu and colleagues tested the hypothesis that simple water ingestion would be preventative.
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Hughes and colleagues in New Zealand took advantage of their geographic isolation to study air travel-related thromboembolism by enrolling volunteers traveling at least 4 hours by air who were going to return within 6 weeks.
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ICD therapy is an effective management strategy in selected pediatric and congenital heart disease patients.
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Patients with lone atrial flutter have an increased risk for thromboembolic events and use of anticoagulation is urged for all patients with atrial flutter who are older than 65.
