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Energy drinks amp up heart contractility

Posted on: 03/12/2013 - 18:25

CHICAGO – Consumption of an energy drink containing caffeine and taurine slightly, but significantly, altered left ventricular contractility in healthy volunteers, while consuming the same amount of...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

Analysis: No such thing as ‘benign’ obesity

Posted on: 02/12/2013 - 22:00

"Metabolically healthy" overweight and obese patients may carry the same short-term risk as normal-weight patients for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events, but their weight puts...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

Abrupt increase noted in LVAD thrombosis

Posted on: 02/12/2013 - 18:00

An abrupt and unexpected increase in pump thrombosis has occurred since March 2011 in patients with advanced heart failure who received the HeartMate II left ventricular assist device, according to a...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

AHA funds personalized medicine initiative

Posted on: 27/11/2013 - 19:42

The American Heart Association has set aside a 5-year, $30-million research fund to dig deeper into two large national studies in hopes of finding more clues to personalized treatment and prevention...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

Chest pain traits didn’t identify MI in women

Posted on: 25/11/2013 - 21:20

The telltale traits of acute myocardial infarction–associated chest pain may differ in women and men, but they aren’t diagnostically telling enough to determine which women with chest pain are having...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

Advanced pacing slows AF progression in bradycardia

Posted on: 22/11/2013 - 13:50

DALLAS – Enhanced pacemaker technology sharply reduced progression of nonpermanent atrial fibrillation to permanent AF in patients with bradycardia and sinus node disease in the large international,...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

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