Study Shows Preoperative Fractional Flow Reserve Associated with 6-Month Anastomotic Graft Functionality in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
A team led by Dr David Glineur working in Canada and Europe on the IMpact of Preoperative fractional flow reserve on Arterial bypass Graft anastomotic function(IMPAG)... Read more.
1.3 Million Patient Study Shows That Even With New Lower Definition for Hypertension, Elevated Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure Both Independently Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Events
In a recent original cohort study done by Alexander C. Flint and his team published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it was concluded that systolic hypertension,... Read more.
New Study Reports That 13% of an Internal Medicine Intern’s Time Spent in Direct Patient Care
In an observational study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Dr. Krisda H. Chaiyachati showed that first-year internal medicine residents spent 66% of their... Read more.
Statin vs Healthy Adherer Effect On Mortality in ASCVD
In a vigorous retrospective cohort study published in JAMA, Fatima Rodriguez et al. found an inverse graded association between long-term statin adherence and all-cause... Read more.
Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention Associated With Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Events and an Increased Risk of Major Bleeding
An original investigation by Zheng et al. published in JAMA showed that the use of aspirin in individuals without cardiovascular disease was associated with a lower... Read more.
Lesser Training In Amateur Marathon Runners Can Lead to Raised Troponins
A recent article published in Circulation by John Del Coso and his team demonstrated that the cardiac stress during a marathon is higher than the cardiac stress... Read more.
Inducible Myocardial Ischemia May Be Excluded by Low Levels of High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Levels
In an original cohort study by Hammadah et al recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine, it has been found that very low high-sensitivity cardiac troponin(hs-cTn)... Read more.
Can a Smartphone Camera Detect Atrial Fibrillation?
An original study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association aimed at finding a novel method for screening patients for atrial fibrillation (AF)... Read more.