May 14, 2021
For patients with type 2 diabetes and stable coronary disease who have not had an MI or stroke, specific factors related to their diabetes should not necessarily come into play when physicians are deciding whether they should add ticagrelor (Brilinta; AstraZeneca) to the treatment regimen, a post hoc analysis of the THEMIS and THEMIS-PCI studies indicates. Nor did they influence the trial findings, investigators say.
The complex balance between efficacy and safety demonstrated in the overall trial cohort as well as in the subset with a history of PCI was not significantly influenced by diabetes duration, baseline HbA1c, or background glucose-lowering medications, researchers led by Lawrence Leiter, MD (St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto, Canada), report.
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(BPT) - As the world looks with hope to the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, there lies another ongoing health crisis that, according to the American Heart Association (AHA), kills more Americans than anything else:
heart disease. In the last year, heart disease claimed more than 690,000 lives in the U.S., which is staggeringly more than the reported 345,000 lives lost to COVID-19, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
With the prevalence of this disease and the large amount of clinical data surrounding the management of CV risk factors, one would assume that the approaches used to reduce the risk of a CV event, such as a heart attack or stroke, would be standard practice. However, the overwhelming amount of information and data out there can actually make it hard to assess risk and treatment options, and it can be confusing for physicians, patients and caregivers to figure out what is best â especially when data changes old ways of th
May 12, 2021
Though they’re called resuscitated sudden cardiac arrests, many such events do not, in fact, have an underlying cardiac cause, which has implications for both patient care and clinical research, investigators have found.
Of patients who suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and survived long enough to be hospitalized in San Francisco County over a roughly 4-year span, most (69.1%) had an underlying arrhythmic cause, but a sizeable minority (27.1%) had noncardiac conditions to blame. Another 3.8% were classified as “nonarrhythmic/cardiac.”
The distinction mattered when it came to the likelihood of a patient surviving that initial hospital stay. The vast majority of survivors (92%) had an underlying arrhythmic cause, and only one had a noncardiac cause. The bulk of the noncardiac group was made up of patients with underlying neurologic conditions like stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, and seizure, all of whom died.
Sex not likely to cause cardiac arrest, says new study
Sex not likely to cause cardiac arrest, says new study
Heart Patients Are Usually Worried That They May Suddenly Die While Having Sex, But A New Study Suggests Otherwise. As Per The Study Sexual Activity Seldom Cause Cardiac Arrest In A Person.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Abhishek Ranjit | Updated on: 16 Nov 2017, 06:29:23 PM
New Delhi:
Heart patients are usually worried that they may suddenly die while having sex, but a new study suggests otherwise. As per the study sexual activity seldom cause cardiac arrest in a person.
The research found out that sex is linked to mere one percent of all the cardiac cases.