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Stents or bypass surgery can improve outcomes in patients with stable ischemic heart disease
A recent study by University of Alberta cardiologists at the Canadian VIGOUR Centre shows that a particular group of patients with stable ischemic heart disease have better outcomes with percutaneous coronary intervention (also called angioplasty with stent) or coronary artery bypass surgery and medication, versus conservative management with medication alone.
In a study published in the
Journal of the American Heart Association, associate professor of medicine and academic interventional cardiologist Kevin Bainey and his team reviewed the patient information of more than 9,000 Albertans with stable ischemic heart disease. While able to function as outpatients, these patients had arteries in the heart that had narrowed and were restricting blood supply. They also had other heart issues referred to as high-risk cardiac anatomy including blockages in important locations of the heart s blood
(Family Features) Devoting a little time every day to care for yourself can go a long way toward protecting the health of your heart. Simple self-care, such as taking a moment to de-stress, giving yourself time to move more, preparing healthier meals and not cheating on sleep, can all benefit your heart.
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Effective immediately, research submitted to
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes should follow “best practices” for study design and data analysis when it comes to intentionally addressing structural racism. The news was announced in an editorial written by that journal’s editors.
The catalyst for their move was a July 2020 article in
Health Affairs that, in the midst of the United States’ tumultuous reckoning with racism, advocated for researchers, journals, and peer reviewers to adopt “rigorous standards for publishing on health inequities.”
“This is an important piece, and it led us to self-reflection,” Khadijah Breathett, MD (University of Arizona, Tucson), and colleagues note in their paper, which calls out the long history of racism in the health sciences and healthcare.