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Sophia Antipolis: Cancer patients who continue smoking after their diagnosis have a nearly doubled risk of heart attack, stroke or death due to cardiovascular disease compared with non-smokers, according to research published on World No...

Having a heart attack, among those who had never had one before, was not associated with a sudden decline in cognition. But, for those who had a heart attack versus those who did not, there was a significantly faster decline in cognition over...

13 patients were enrolled; the DurAVR™ THV was successfully implanted in 100% of cases with no device-related complications. No deaths, stroke, bleeding, reinterventions, or myocardial infarction were reported during follow-up visits.

Many patients with heart failure have symptoms and signs for years before the diagnosis is finally made, which is usually only after the breathlessness and ankle swelling become severe enough to require hospitalization.

PARAGLIDE-HF evaluated the effect of sacubitril/valsartan versus valsartan on changes in NT-proBNP, safety and tolerability in heart failure patients with EF above 40% who had been stabilized after a worsening heart failure event.

This was a retrospective observational study which enrolled consecutive patients admitted with STEMI and treated with PCI within 48 hours of symptom onset between 2010 and 2015.

Maximal quadriceps strength was measured as an indicator of leg strength. Patients sat on a chair and contracted the quadriceps muscles as hard as possible for five seconds.

The risk of a family member developing DCM or a DCM partial phenotype by age 80 is estimated at 33%.

Investigators analyzed 19,088 patients who underwent transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) for moderate to severe isolated degenerative mitral valve regurgitation between January 2014 and June 2022.

The F2 filter offers important advantages over previous embolic protection devices, such as best-in-class micropore filtration that further reduces the size and volume of embolic debris reaching the brain, full coverage of all three great...