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Anti-inflammatory therapy reduces incidence of lung cancer

In most clinical trials for cancer therapy, investigators test treatments in patients with advanced disease. But a recent cardiovascular secondary prevention study has given researchers a unique opportunity: to explore the effectiveness of giving a drug to patients before cancer emerges.

28 Aug 2017

Study findings do not support routine use of oxygen therapy in all patients with heart attack symptoms

Oxygen therapy does not improve survival in patients with heart attack symptoms, according to late-breaking research presented today in a Hot Line LBCT Session at ESC Congress and published in the NEJM.

28 Aug 2017

Study: Left atrial appendage closure during open heart surgery protects against brain infarctions

Closure of the left atrial appendage during heart surgery protects the brain, according to late-breaking research presented today in a Hot Line LBCT Session at ESC Congress. The results suggest that closure should be routinely added to open heart surgery.

28 Aug 2017

Drug reduces inflammation to lower cardiovascular disease and lung cancer risk

The IL-1β inhibitor canakinumab lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease and lung cancer risk by reducing inflammation, according to late-breaking results from the CANTOS trial presented today in a Hot Line - LBT Session at ESC Congress1 and published in the NEJM.

28 Aug 2017

Drug combination improves outcomes in patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease

Rivaroxaban plus aspirin improves survival and reduces stroke and heart attack in patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease, according to late-breaking results from the COMPASS trial presented today in a Hot Line - LBCT Session at ESC Congress1 and published in the NEJM.

28 Aug 2017

Catheter ablation provides better outcomes for AF patients than conventional drug therapies

Every year millions of people around the world are diagnosed with heart failure, a chronic, progressive condition where the heart is unable to pump enough oxygenated blood throughout the body.

28 Aug 2017

Drug combination superior in preventing further heart complications in people with vascular disease

A major international study has found that the combination of two drugs - rivaroxaban and aspirin -- is superior to aspirin alone in preventing further heart complications in people with vascular disease.

28 Aug 2017

Two anticlotting medicines better at reducing bleeding risk than triple therapy

Using just two anticlotting medicines for patients who have atrial fibrillation and have had a stent placed in a heart artery is safer than using the current standard treatment of three medications, according to a new study presented by Brigham and Women's Hospital cardiologist Christopher Cannon, MD, at the European Society of Cardiology and published simultaneously in The New England Journal of Medicine.

28 Aug 2017

Biomedical engineering researchers aim to attack two banes of cardiovascular disease

Biomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease - heart failure after heart attacks and the scourge of resistant high blood pressure - with $4.8 million in National Institutes of Health grants that begin this fall.

26 Aug 2017

Junk genes could one day offer framework for treating people with familial hypercholesterolemia

Scientists from UCLA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute successfully used a gene that suppresses cholesterol levels as part of a treatment to reduce plaque in mice with a disorder called familial hypercholesterolemia.

26 Aug 2017

ESC recommendations on management of patients with peripheral arterial diseases published

European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, developed in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), are published online today in European Heart Journal, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, and the ESC website.

26 Aug 2017

Underweight patients more likely to have worse outcomes after cardiac catheterization

Being underweight, and not overweight, has the highest mortality, cost, length of stay, and readmission rate for those undergoing cardiac catheterization, according to an analysis of more than one million patients presented at ESC Congress today.

26 Aug 2017

Women more often receive inadequate treatment to prevent cardiovascular events

Women at high risk of cardiovascular events are less likely to receive recommended statin doses for secondary prevention, according to results from the DYSIS study presented today at ESC Congress.

26 Aug 2017

Study: Gender gap in mortality from myocardial infarction has narrowed particularly in younger women

The gender gap in death from heart attack has reduced over the past two decades particularly in younger women, according to research presented today at ESC Congress. The study in over 50 000 patients found that overall in-hospital mortality for heart attack patients was halved during the 20 year period.

26 Aug 2017

UA College of Medicine - Tucson selected for NIH initiative to advance critical emergency medicine research

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is one of a team of six national institutions selected for the Strategies to Innovate EmeRgENcy Care Clinical Trials Network, a new initiative of the National Institutes of Health to advance critical emergency medicine research.

26 Aug 2017

New ESC Focused Update provides recommendations on DAPT in patients with coronary artery disease

The first ESC Focused Update on Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Coronary Artery Disease is published online today in European Heart Journal, and on the ESC website.

26 Aug 2017

Pfizer announces launch two new digital innovations to help people living with hemophilia

Pfizer Inc. today announced the launch of Hemocraft, a modification of the popular video game Minecraft, and the HemMobile Striiv Wearable, a custom wristband, to help people living with hemophilia better approach hemophilia education and activity tracking in the US.

26 Aug 2017

Insertable cardiac monitors reveal prevalence of undiagnosed atrial fibrillation in high risk patients

With the use of implanted cardiac monitors researchers found a substantial incidence (nearly 30 percent) of previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF) after 18 months in patients at high risk of both AF and stroke, according to a study published by JAMA Cardiology.

26 Aug 2017

High levels of microbes deprive host of essential nutrients, research suggests

"Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do," says Federico Rey, a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Then we get their leftovers -- or their waste.

26 Aug 2017

Bioinformatics expert receives $12.8 million grant to continue to lead Diabetic Complications Consortium

Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has received a $12.8 million grant to continue to lead a national research initiative focused on reducing the complications of diabetes.

26 Aug 2017

Cardiology News and Research

Latest Cardiology News and Research

Anti-inflammatory therapy reduces incidence of lung cancer

Study findings do not support routine use of oxygen therapy in all patients with heart attack symptoms

Study: Left atrial appendage closure during open heart surgery protects against brain infarctions

Drug reduces inflammation to lower cardiovascular disease and lung cancer risk

Drug combination improves outcomes in patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease

Catheter ablation provides better outcomes for AF patients than conventional drug therapies

Drug combination superior in preventing further heart complications in people with vascular disease

Two anticlotting medicines better at reducing bleeding risk than triple therapy

Biomedical engineering researchers aim to attack two banes of cardiovascular disease

Junk genes could one day offer framework for treating people with familial hypercholesterolemia

ESC recommendations on management of patients with peripheral arterial diseases published

Underweight patients more likely to have worse outcomes after cardiac catheterization

Women more often receive inadequate treatment to prevent cardiovascular events

Study: Gender gap in mortality from myocardial infarction has narrowed particularly in younger women

UA College of Medicine - Tucson selected for NIH initiative to advance critical emergency medicine research

New ESC Focused Update provides recommendations on DAPT in patients with coronary artery disease

Pfizer announces launch two new digital innovations to help people living with hemophilia

Insertable cardiac monitors reveal prevalence of undiagnosed atrial fibrillation in high risk patients

High levels of microbes deprive host of essential nutrients, research suggests

Bioinformatics expert receives $12.8 million grant to continue to lead Diabetic Complications Consortium

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