Coronary Disease/Myocardial Infarction
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What Do You Think Happened?
You are asked to interpret the tracing in the figure without the benefit of any history. What do you think happened? How acute are these findings?
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Heart Attack Treatment Timing Improves, But Inequities Remain
Women remain less likely than men to receive timely angiography after myocardial infarction.
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Low-Fat vs. Mediterranean Diet for Secondary Prevention
A study of stable coronary heart disease patients comparing the Mediterranean diet to a low-fat diet over a seven-year follow-up showed the Mediterranean diet was superior at preventing major cardiovascular events.
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Properly Used Decision Aids Can Help Defend Malpractice Claims
Researchers recently concluded there is a high risk of EDs overlooking serious coronary artery disease in women. Using validated diagnostic tools can help alleviate this.
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Updated Aspirin Guidance from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
The authors of new recommendations advise avoiding initiating aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults age 60 years or older, individualizing decisions based on characteristics and preferences for patients.
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Panel Backs Away from Aspirin for Cardiovascular Disease Primary Prevention
Experts say patients age 60 years and older should not start taking the drug to prevent a first stroke or heart attack.
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Posterior Myocardial Infarction, or deWinter T Waves?
The ECG was taken from an older man who complained of chest pain over the past month. The pain severity was even worse on the day he underwent imaging. How would you interpret the ECG?
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Can Antioxidant Consumption Prevent Coronary Artery Disease?
A study of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) that increase blood levels of diet-derived antioxidants in three large individual subject genetic databases did not demonstrate a relationship between SNPs and coronary artery disease.
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Exploring the Cardio-Oncology Frontier
Investigators found a new cancer diagnosis was independently associated with a higher risk for cardiovascular death and nonfatal morbidity.
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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.