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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Heart attack patients don’t adhere to smoking cessation prescriptions

In a new study, researchers at Duke University set out to explore how many patients who regularly smoke and are hospitalized for a heart attack receive cessation medications at discharge.

CDC: 30M in US have diabetes; new diagnoses fewer than 2008 high

The diabetes epidemic continues to spread across the United States—but not as quickly as it once had, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s 2017 National Diabetes Statistics Report.

Sept. 11 survivors, first responders face higher rates of heart disease

First responders and survivors at the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were exposed to hazardous materials. A new study in the journal Injury Epidemiology examines what impact this had on rates of asthma, diabetes and heart and lung disease.

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Artificial sweeteners linked to heart disease, other conditions

A new study by researchers in Canada has found an association between artificial sweeteners and an increased risk for heart disease and other conditions related to it.

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Scientists ID mathematical method to measure catheter ablation effectiveness

A mathematical method to measure electrical communications within the heart has been shown to be useful in predicting the effectiveness of catheter ablation.

Complex med regimens lead to nonadherence in heart failure patients

A team from the University of Colorado (UC) in Boulder and Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute in Tennessee published a study of the impact of polypharmacy in patients with heart failure in Clinical Interventions in Aging.

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Research presented at APSC reveals early-onset heart failure in Asia

In a series of late-breaking trials being presented at the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology’s (APSC) meeting in Singapore, research is surfacing about the realities of heart failure in Asian countries.

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Scientists develop silicone heart using 3D printing

Scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have managed to create a silicone heart that works and pumps blood like a biological human heart. The only problem is that it doesn’t have the stamina of a real one.

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.