Clinical

This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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SPRINT analysis: Intensive BP lowering could be harmful for smokers

The SPRINT trial suggested a more aggressive blood pressure-lowering target reduced the rate of cardiovascular events in hypertensive people, but a new secondary analysis of the trial indicates such an approach may actually be harmful for smokers.

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Edwards invests in 2 companies to boost transcatheter heart treatment portfolio

Edwards Lifesciences has invested $35 million for an exclusive right to acquire Corvia Medical, which is engaged in a U.S. pivotal trial for its InterAtrial Shunt Device (IASD) to treat heart failure.

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Switch to daylight saving time linked to spike in heart attacks

As people around the country struggle to catch up on sleep after “springing forward” an hour, a Washington Post story reminds us of the health risks associated with adjusting our clocks, including an increased incidence of heart attacks.

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Smartphone app detects diabetes with ‘reasonable discrimination’

A smartphone’s camera and flashlight features can detect changes in blood flow and identify type 2 diabetes with accuracy comparable to traditional, clinic-based risk scores, new research suggests.

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Longitudinal C-reactive protein elevations linked to adverse outcomes after ACS

Both initial and serial increases in high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) concentrations are independently predictive of cardiac events following acute coronary syndrome (ACS), according to a new study in JAMA Cardiology.

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Heart attacks growing more common among people in their 20s and 30s

The proportion of heart attack patients who are 40 or younger has steadily increased over the last decade, according to research set to be presented March 17 at the American College of Cardiology’s scientific sessions in New Orleans.

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The War on Cardiogenic Shock Gains a New Sense of Urgency

To conquer STEMI’s “last frontier,” cardiologists are tapping into an evolving arsenal of strategies while calling for more data and standardized definitions to guide treating physicians.

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A Step Closer to Precision Medicine? Gene Editing Process Leads to Personalized Advice for Heart Patient

A new stem cell-based test may add certainty to efforts to predict whether so-called variants of uncertain significance will contribute to the development of diseases or be harmless. 

Around the web

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.