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Statins May Benefit People With Low Cholesterol
An international trial found that the cholesterol busting drug rosuvastatin reduced heart attack and stroke in men and women with low cholesterol who had high levels of C-reactive protein but who were otherwise classed as healthy, and experts suggested this could be a class
Statins May Benefit People With Low Cholesterol...

Low Blood Pressure Levels May Increase Cardiovascular Risk Among Patients With Heart Disease Despite Substantial Lowering Of LDL-Cholesterol
Data from the Treating to New Targets (TNT) trial presented at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Fourth Annual Scientific Meeting (ASH 2009) show that low blood pressure levels may lead to increased risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attack and stroke. These data supplement previous findings from
Low Blood Pressure Levels May Increase Cardiovascular Risk Among Patients With Heart Disease Despite Substantial Lowering Of LDL-Cholesterol...

First Patients Enrolled In The Access-Europe Study Of The MitraClip(R) Therapy
Evalve, Inc., the leader in the development of devices for the percutaneous repair of cardiac valves, announced the first enrollment in the ACCESS-Europe study, a post-market observational study of the MitraClip(R) therapy in Europe. The MitraClip(R) system is the first commercially available treatment option for non-surgical mitral valve
First Patients Enrolled In The Access-Europe Study Of The MitraClip(R) Therapy...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Causes Early Heart Disease Death
Vietnam veterans who experienced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were twice as likely to die from heart disease as veterans without PTSD, a new Geisinger study finds. In a study published in the July issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, Geisinger Senior Investigator Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH examined the
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Stroke Patients Less Likely To Meet Treatment Goals Than Heart Disease Patients
A majority of high-risk stroke patients are less likely to meet clinical treatment targets to prevent repeat stroke or heart attacks compared to those with heart disease, suggesting the need to examine new therapeutic strategies, according to a study led by St. Michael’s Hospital neurologist Dr. Gustavo
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Pneumonia Death Less Likely In Statin Users
According to an article published in the October 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, people who were hospitalized with pneumonia were less likely to die within 90 days afterward if they took cholesterol-lowering statins before hospitalization. In the last
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‘Paperless’ Hospitals Proven To Be Better For Patients
Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly. “Patients appear safer and hospital bottom lines may improve when health care
‘Paperless’ Hospitals Proven To Be Better For Patients...

“Chain Of Survival” Saves Lives, Lessens Damage In Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients In Japan
Improvements to the “chain of survival” increased survival and decreased residual neurological damage in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients in Japan, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers considered 8,782 bystander-witnessed cardiac arrests from May 1998 to December 2006 in Osaka,
“Chain Of Survival” Saves Lives, Lessens Damage In Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients In Japan...