More on the aspirin debate.
Should patients stop taking aspirin for primary prevention? : Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine.
CAD
READ ME – Did Advice to Cut Saturated Fats Go Very Wrong? – Medpage Today
Did Advice to Cut Saturated Fats Go Very Wrong? | Medpage Today.
Read this article before you order that triple stack cheeseburger with a side of drug eluding stents.
Or go ahead and order that triple stack cheeseburger and be confused along with the rest of us.
CardioBreak: Alcohol, Vaccines, and Peripheral Stents | Medpage Today
Many Statin Eligible Patients Aren’t Getting Them
WOSCOPS at 20 Years Shows ‘Lifetime’ Benefit of Statins
JAMA – Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease and Risk of Myocardial Infarction
JAMA Network | JAMA | Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease and Risk of Myocardial Infarction.
Conclusions and Relevance In this cohort of patients undergoing elective coronary angiography, nonobstructive CAD, compared with no apparent CAD, was associated with a significantly greater 1-year risk of MI and all-cause mortality. These findings suggest clinical importance of nonobstructive CAD and warrant further investigation of interventions to improve outcomes among these patients.
Five Lessons From the Niacin Failure
Five Lessons From the Niacin Failure.
Niacin With Statins? No Dice..
HPS2-THRIVE: As Niacin Fails, HDL’s Role Is Debated Anew.
Enjoy these articles. Taking niacin? Well…
Diabetes and the Heart: Risk Greater in Women
Diabetes and the Heart: Risk Greater in Women.
Data from 64 studies with both male and female participants yielded a 44% greater multiple-adjusted relative risk ratio (RRR) for incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in women compared with men (RRR 1.44, 95% CI 1.27-1.63), Rachel Huxley, DPhil, of the University of Queensland in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues found.
Pooled data from 52 studies indicated that women also had a 44% greater chance than men of dying from fatal CHD associated with diabetes, Huxley and colleagues reported online in the journal Diabetologia.
MI Admissions on Upswing in Younger Women
Bucking the trend in other groups, younger women in that province experienced an increase in the hospitalization rate of 1.7% per year from 2000 through 2009 (P=0.04), according to Karin Humphries, MBA, DSc, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and colleagues.
In addition, in that younger group, women had a greater risk of dying within 30 days of hospital discharge compared with men, a difference that persisted through the end of the study period (OR 1.61, 95% CI 1.25-2.08), the researchers reported online in the Journal of Women\’s Health.
Sleep Apnea Severity Tied to Cardiac Marker
- Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, particularly heart failure, a study found.
- The severity of obstructive sleep apnea was significantly associated with higher levels of high-sensitivity troponin, suggesting that subclinical myocardial injury may play a role in the association with risk of heart failure.
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