Cardiology
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How do you prescribe exercise in primary prevention?
"We must recommend exercise progressively," says cardiologist Thelma Sánchez Grillo, MD.
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Obesity-related cardiovascular disease deaths surging
“There is need for dedicated health strategies aimed at individual communities to better understand and tackle the social determinants of obesity...
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Dietary nitrates reduce contrast-induced nephropathy in ACS
“Currently, aside from intravenous hydration, there is no proven treatment that reduces contrast-induced nephropathy. We feel that dietary...
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ESC backs SGLT2 inhibitor plus GLP-1 in diabetes with high CVD risk
Another major change in the new ESC guideline revision is introduction of a CVD risk calculator intended to estimate the risk among people with...
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Wegovy scores HFpEF benefits in people with obesity
The results “indicate that treatment with semaglutide is a valuable therapeutic approach in the management of patients with HFpEF and obesity.”
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Dementia diagnosis a good time to reduce polypharmacy
Time of diagnosis can be a potential inflexion point for deprescribing long-term medications with safety risks, limited benefit, or possible...
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Low-dose oral minoxidil for female pattern hair loss: Benefits, impact on BP, heart rate evaluated
“It was surprising how little ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate changed after an average of 6 months of treatment,” one of the authors said...
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Pain 1 year after MI tied to all-cause mortality
For a long time, pain has been regarded as merely a symptom of disease rather than a "disease” in its own right.
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Low-dose colchicine for ASCVD: Your questions answered
“It’s safe, it works, and it’s fully consistent with all the information we have about inflammation being part and parcel of atherosclerosis. It’s...
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AHA/ACC issue updated chronic coronary disease guidelines
Routine periodic anatomic or ischemic testing in the absence of a change in clinical or functional status is not recommended for risk...