Cardiology

• Racial Disparities Persist In Hospice Use

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00pm CET

  Even as medical caregivers try to change practices, racial disparities in hospice care continue, according to a study in the March 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine......

• Geisinger Collaborates On National Research Project: Investigators To Study The Care, Outcomes Of Young Women With Heart Disease

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:00am CET

  Geisinger Health System and Yale School of Medicine investigators are researching how young people recover from heart attacks through VIRGO (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes in Young AMI Patients), a research project funded by the National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute......

• Scivanta Medical Corporation Announces Results For Initial Clinical Trial For The Scivanta Cardiac Monitoring System

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:00am CET

  Scivanta Medical Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SCVM), announced that the results of its initial clinical trial for the Scivanta Cardiac Monitoring System (SCMS) clearly indicate that the SCMS can accurately measure cardiac performance as expected by the company. This clinical trial was performed at Kaleida Health/Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo, ...

• High-sensitivity troponin T test improves sensitivity of ACS detection

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Researchers report that a high-sensitivity troponin T test has increased sensitivity for acute coronary syndrome compared with a conventional cardiac troponin T assay....

• Direct measurement of cholesterol levels comparable to standard methods

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Direct measurement of both high- and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol using modern assay techniques reveals similar levels to those found using standard methods, say US researchers....

• Combined oral contraceptives have neutral impact on LDL levels

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Oral contraceptives containing both estrogen and progestin induce an increase in the production of apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins, including low-density lipoprotein, a kinetic study has found....

• BG Medicine And Abbott To Develop Galectin-3 Test For The I-STAT(R) System

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 10th, 2010, 12:00am CET

  BG Medicine, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) to extend its current development and commercialization collaboration to include the development of a galectin-3 test for Abbott Point of Care's i-STAT® System. Galectin-3 is a novel biomarker that may play a role in ...

• ECG Screening Of Hyperactive Children Borderline Cost-effective

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00pm CET

  Evaluating children for underlying heart problems before prescribing stimulant medications can identify children at risk for sudden cardiac death, but electrocardiogram (ECG) screening is of borderline cost-effectiveness compared to current practice, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association......

• Medicine To Lower Blood Pressure Significantly Decreases Risk For Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:00pm CET

  A long-acting ACE inhibitor used to reduce blood pressure significantly decreased the risk for cardiovascular disease, including stroke, in normal weight, overweight and obese patients, according to research reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association......

• DASH Diet, Exercise, Calorie Restriction May Help Improve Mental Function, Heart Health In Overweight, Hypertensive Adults

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:00pm CET

  The DASH diet, combined with exercise and calorie restriction, improved mental functioning by 30 percent in overweight adults with high blood pressure compared to those who didn't diet or exercise, researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association......

• Racial Differences In Hospice Use For Heart Failure

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00pm CET

  Building on previous studies that found racial differences in hospice use, a new study from the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife and Boston University School of Medicine finds that blacks and Hispanics use hospice for advanced heart failure at a rate of up to 50 percent less than ...

• Intermountain Healthcare And Toshiba Announce Ultrasound Substudy Of FaCTor64 - Speckle Tracking By Echo

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 10:00am CET

  Cardiovascular death is the most common cause of mortality among Type 2 diabetics and claims the lives of millions each year, with many diabetics experiencing their first "symptom" as a heart attack or sudden death. Understanding that diabetics are at high risk for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and that many ...

• New Heart Valve Replacement Technologies Offer Hope For High-risk Patients

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 9:00am CET

  A significant number of people with heart disease will benefit from less invasive transcatheter heart valve replacements in future, finds a review of updated practices in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)......

• Metabolic syndrome components increase CV risk, but not syndrome itself

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Patients with the metabolic syndrome have greater progression of atherosclerosis than those without, but this is largely explained by high triglycerides and obesity, say researchers....

• Insulin glargine effective for treating nonobese and obese Type 2 diabetics

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Results from a subgroup analysis of the ATLANTUS trial show that treatment with insulin glargine is effective for lowering glycated hemoglobin, without substantial weight gain, in obese and nonobese individuals with Type 2 diabetes....

• Stentys Self-expanding Stent Receives CE Marking To Treat Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)

  Found on Cardiology News. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:00pm CET

  Medical device pioneer Stentys announced that it has received CE Marking for its self-expanding and disconnectable stent to treat acute coronary syndrome (ACS)......

• Rosuvastatin effective for primary prevention in CKD patients

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Rosuvastatin treatment is effective for the prevention of first cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in people with elevated levels of C-reactive protein and moderate chronic kidney disease, a subanalysis of JUPITER suggests....

• Corporate executives’ adherence to statins poor

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Results from a study of corporate executives show that only 68% took statins as prescribed by their doctor....

• High basic fibroblast growth factor increases CHD risk in Type 2 diabetics

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Elevated plasma basic fibroblast growth factor immunoreactivity increases coronary heart disease risk in men with Type 2 diabetes, report researchers....

• Thoracoabdominal calcifications predict CVD and total mortality

  Found on Lipids Online. Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:00am CET

  Thoracoabdominal calcification predicts cardiovascular disease and total mortality in Type 2 diabetics and nondiabetics, say investigators....