Cardiology

Staying heart-healthy is a partnership between your cardiologist and yourself. Patients should follow the guidelines given to them and listen to the advice dispensed.

California has passed a law banning trans fats in restaurants, bakeries, delicatessens, cafeterias, and other businesses classified as “food facilities.”

Among patients with atrial fibrillation, amiodarone (Cordarone, Pacerone) is the most useful drug for the preservation of sinus rhythm.1-3 Although amiodarone carries a well-known risk of potentially serious noncardiac toxicities, perhaps less well recognized is its major cardiovascular side effect of bradycardia.

This issue of Cardiology Review includes an article in the Hypertension section by Dr. Robert H. Fagard, who evaluates the effect of low diastolic blood pressure (BP) on prognosis in older patients with systolic hypertension.

Methadone HCI (Diskets, Dolophine, Methadose) is a synthetic opioid that has been used widely in the United States for the management of heroin addiction Treatment of opioid dependence has been shifting gradually from the older US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection program, ...

There is some debate about whether the risk of cardiovascular events associated with low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels is attenuated by very low low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels (< 60 mg/dL), which can be obtained with statins and combination therapy.

Dr. Fagard from Belgium addresses an interesting conundrum in the treatment of high blood pressure (BP): can there be too much of a good thing?

DeBakey was best-known for his trailblazing efforts in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

From the Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

With all the content aggregators and other resources online that point users toward useful websites, it's hard to fathom how a site as well conceived and valuable as dave.md could remain so relatively unknown.

An 89-year-old woman with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and a transient ischemic attack 7 years earlier ...

This propensity-matched study, in which patients with and without diabetes were well balanced in all measured baseline characteristics, including traditional risk factors and comorbidities, found that diabetes was associated with increased mortality and hospitalization in ambulatory patients who had chronic, mild-to-moderate heart failure and were receiving angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. These findings also highlight the sex- and age-related variations in the effect of diabetes in these patients.

Early detection of cardiovascular disease can reduce the huge human and economic impact of this group of diseases.

The AAPS said that many physicians have decided not to use EHRs because they fear the data will be used to control what they do and how they do it.

Doctors in Great Britain have already prescribed statins to children with the FH gene, which predicts early heart attacks.

A recent meta-analysis of 31 randomized controlled trials with 4500 participants showed that metformin treatment significantly decreased weight, improved dyslipidemia and insulin resistance, and reduced the incidence of new-onset diabetes by 40%, with beneficial effects maintained over time. Further studies will show whether the metabolic improvements achieved with metformin treatment will ultimately result in a decrease in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

This summer, we have come up with several heart-healthy picnic entries even you cardiologists would approve of, that are good both on the grill and in the oven to serve either hot or cold.

There exist online many high-quality websites from trusted sources that feature videos and animated depictions of the inner workings of the heart and the functions of the various components of the circulatory system.

A Duke University study determined that moderate exercise cubs the symptoms of metabolic syndrome, thus cutting the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes.

Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine received a $15 million grant to conduct a five-year trial that will investigate whether utilizing pacemakers to administer beta-blocker therapy improves survival in patients.

The news last Friday came as an utter shock to me. Tim Russert died of a massive heart attack at age 58. The cause? Plaque ripping and causing a blood clot.

According to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, toenails can help predict heart disease risk in female smokers.

Cardiovascular disease accounts for 65 percent of patient deaths among people with type 2 diabetes.

10% of hospital admissions and 23% of nursing home admissions are due to the failure of a patient to take a prescription medication correctly, and as many as 59% of those taking fi ve or more medications are taking them improperly.

10% of hospital admissions and 23% of nursing home admissions are due to the failure of a patient to take a prescription medication correctly, and as many as 59% of those taking fi ve or more medications are taking them improperly.

Barring action by Congress, July 1 is the deadline to stop a 10.6% cut in Medicare physician payment.

Baseball hall-of-famer Jim Palmer is in his third season as spokesman for Strike Out High Cholesterol, a national cholesterol education program.

A little poking around on the Internets confirmed that quite a few good-to-very-good blogs run by cardiologists have gone dark in the last year or so.

Go Red for Women, in a study released recently, rated the best and least "Heart-Friendly" cities for women in the United States.