Effect of Two Intensive Statin Regimens on Progression of Coronary Disease — NEJM.
CAD
ESC: European Society of Cardiology Congress Meeting
ESC News, Meeting Coverage News plus CME
Medical News: ESC: Afib Doubles Mortality in Stable Angina Patients – in Meeting Coverage, ESC from MedPage Today
The top link takes you to the MedPage Today home page for articles covering this meeting. The second link is to an article that underwriters may find interesting.
Taking Asprin? Don’t Stop
Medical News: Aspirin Holiday Is a Bad Idea – in Cardiovascular, Prevention from MedPage Today
A case-control study found that patients taking low-dose aspirin for secondary prevention who had recently discontinued the drug had a higher risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction than those who continued to take the aspirin.
Silent Heart Damage and Cocaine
“Heavy cocaine users have a high prevalence of cardiac damage as seen by cardiac MRI.”
RAPS Trial
Artery v. Vein in a very interesting study.
“Note that in this study, the use of radial arteries was associated with a lower rate of functional and complete occlusion at five years compared with the use of saphenous veins.”
TIA Doubles Risk for MI
“The occurrence of a transient ischemic attack (TIA) doubles a person’s risk for a subsequent myocardial infarction, a population-based study found.”
Duration of Diabetes Increases MI Risk
In Men, Duration of Diabetes Linked to Raised Heart Risk
“Risk rose along with duration of disease — compared to men without diabetes, men who had early-onset diabetes (in this case, for an average of 17 years or more) had 2.5 times the risk of a heart attack. That level of risk was equal to that of men with a prior history of heart attack, the team noted.”
Statins for Everyone – (not yet)
Doctors should be cautious about prescribing statin drugs for primary prevention in people at low risk of cardiovascular events — because of shortcomings in the evidence to support such use, a Cochrane review warned.
Mom Was Right – Eat Your Veggies
Remember life is short and science takes too long. Eat more fruit and vegetables to lower your IHD risk.
Among the more than 300,000 participants in the study, those who consumed eight or more portions of fruit and vegetables each day had a reduction of 22% in their risk of fatal ischemic heart disease (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.65 to 0.95) compared with those who ate fewer than three portions, according to Francesca L. Crowe, PhD, of the University of Oxford in England, and colleagues.
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