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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.   

Combination pill reduces hypertension death by 14%

A new study published in PLOS Medicine suggests people prescribed a single-pill fixed-dose drug combination (FDC) to manage hypertension are more likely to be compliant with their medication and achieve better health outcomes than those taking separate pills.

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Self-testing device for warfarin monitoring to hit US market this summer

The first coagulation monitoring device with built-in Bluetooth technology is expected to be commercially available this summer to warfarin patients in the United States, according to device-maker Roche Diagnostics.

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Stem cell therapy for heart failure may save money, lives

Scientists are researching how to take stem cells from the patient’s blood to repair damage to the heart. A new therapy could reduce the need for operations, the U.K.’s Express newspaper reports, with researchers hoping the therapy could save lives while being cost effective. 

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EVIDENT II trial: Smartphone apps may slow artery aging

Patients who utilize a healthy lifestyle smartphone application may be able to slow arterial aging, according to results from the EVIDENT II trial presented at EuroHeartCare 2018 in Dublin.

Progression of silent AFib tied to heart failure

Patients who progressed to having longer episodes of subclinical atrial fibrillation (SCAF) were more than four times as likely to be hospitalized for heart failure in a one-year span, according to a study published June 4 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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Malnutrition aids in death prediction of heart failure patients

Measurements of malnutrition offer incremental prognostic value for patients with heart failure, but more work is needed to tease out which components of the condition are most crucial to calculate and treat, researchers reported in JACC: Heart Failure.

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Black Americans twice as likely to have 2nd intracerebral hemorrhage

Minorities, specifically blacks and Hispanics, are more than twice as likely to have a second intracerebral hemorrhage than white counterparts, according to a new study published in Neurology on June 6.

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Fewer reinfarctions, more resource use linked to high-sensitivity troponin adoption

The introduction of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) in Sweden was associated with an 11 percent reduction in reinfarctions among heart attack patients and increased use of coronary angiography and revascularization, according to a study published June 4 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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.