Comparative Analysis of Cardiac MRI Recommendations in ESC & ACC/AHA Guidelines
2024 12 Jun
Cardiac MRI has become a valuable tool in diagnosing and managing various cardiovascular conditions due to its noninvasive nature and ability to provide detailed anatomical and functional information. Standardised protocols are available, and its versatility allows for the investigation of a wide range of cardiac diseases. However, guidelines from...Read more
Long-Term Ketogenic Diet Accumulates Aged Cells in Normal Tissues
2024 23 May
A strict "keto-friendly" diet, often popular for weight loss and diabetes management, may not be as friendly as it seems, depending on the individual and the specifics of the diet. Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) found that a continuous long-term ketogenic diet might induce senescence,...Read more
COVID-19 Vaccine Helps Heart Failure Patients Live Longer
2024 14 May
According to research presented at Heart Failure 2024, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), heart failure patients vaccinated against COVID-19 are 82% more likely to survive than their unvaccinated counterparts. While previous research has confirmed the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with cardiovascular...Read more
COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Increase Risk of Related Adverse Events
2023 15 Feb
According to a study published in the journal Vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines have not been linked to an increased risk of serious adverse events such as heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest, myocarditis, pericarditis, and deep vein thrombosis. The study, which was coordinated by Lamberto Manzoli, a medical epidemiologist and professor at the University...Read more
#ESCCongress: Mortality Benefits With High-Dose Influenza Vaccines
2022 27 Aug
Findings from the DANFLU-1 trial presented at the ESC Congress in Barcelona show that high-dose influenza vaccination in older adults reduces the risk of death by 49% and the incidence of hospitalisation for influenza or pneumonia by 64% compared with standard-dose vaccination. Several studies have previously investigated the association between...Read more
World Diabetes Day - Access to Diabetes Care - If Not Now, When?
2021 14 Nov
14 November is World Diabetes Day. This year, the focus of the World Diabetes Day Campaign is Access to Diabetes Care - If Not Now, When? Millions of people around the world do not have access to diabetes care. People with diabetes require ongoing care and support, but many have to wait for medicine, technologies and care. There is thus a need...Read more
Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine Against Delta Variant
2021 27 Jul
The Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has contributed to a significant surge in cases around the globe, including India and the U.K. While more and more people continue to get vaccinated worldwide, the effectiveness of these vaccines against the delta variant remains unclear. In this study, researchers use a negative-case...Read more
Needles or Fangs? COVID-19 Vaccine at Dracula’s Castle
2021 11 May
A COVID-19 vaccine centre has been set up at Dracula's castle in Transylvania. Healthcare professionals with fang stickers on their scrubs are providing Pfizer shots to everyone who visits Bran Castle in central Romania. The goal of operating a vaccination clinic on this site is to encourage Romanians to get the vaccine. Compared to global numbers,...Read more
High Vaccination Rate Key to Controlling the Pandemic
2021 04 May
New research shows the importance of a high rate of vaccination for reducing case numbers and controlling the pandemic. Data scientists from Mayo Clinic have developed highly accurate computer modeling to predict trends for COVID-19 cases. As per the findings of a study published n Mayo Clinic Proceedings, vaccination can help keep positive...Read more
The Vaccination Nightmare: Delay, Skip, One-Dose, Two-Dose ..... !
2021 02 Mar
People across the world heaved a sigh of relief when the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved. But, as is human nature, happy news is typically followed by debate, controversy, ifs and buts and what-nots. The COVID-19 vaccine is no different. As the distribution of Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna vaccines began across the world, so did the debate...Read more
Influenza Vaccination to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in COVID-19 Patients
2020 12 Oct
According to a state-of-the-art review published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, seasonal influenza vaccine development and the findings of three international influenza cardiovascular outcomes trials that are currently underway could provide more information regarding the development and effectiveness of vaccine strategies for...Read more
#ESCCongress: Vaccines Against Respiratory Infections Reduce Heart Failure Deaths
2020 29 Aug
According to new findings presented at the ESC Congress 2020, influenza and pneumonia vaccinations are associated with fewer hospital deaths in heart failure patients. Approximately 26 million people are affected with heart failure worldwide. It is estimated that one out of five individuals will develop heart failure in their lifetime. Heart failure...Read more
ACC, HeartHero to Advance Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Treatment
2020 20 Feb
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has partnered up with HeartHero to form an alliance to combat sudden cardiac death (SCD) and improve survival rates. For many years, the ACC has been on a mission to improve cardiac care. Now it aims to improve survival with the help of HeartHero's portable defibrillator. SCD is a leading cause of mortality...Read more
Comparing Lipid Guidelines: ESC vs. 2018 ACC/AHA
2019 23 Sep
The European Society of Cardiology’s Guideline for the Management of Dyslipidaemias was announced at ESC 2019, nine months after the publication of the 2018 ACC/AHA Multisociety Guidelines for the Management of Blood Cholesterol. A major question for healthcare professionals around the globe is: how do these two guidelines compare? What are the differences...Read more
Enhanced ACC/AHA strategy for prevention of sudden cardiac death
2019 29 May
When we talk about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the most devastating complications associated with this disease. It is also one of the most common causes of SCD in the young. However, the management of HCM has been made possible through the use of implantable cardioverter/defibrillators (ICDs), which were...Read more
2019 AHA/ACC guideline on CVD primary prevention
2019 20 Mar
An updated guideline for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease has been released jointly by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology. Among the major changes is a recommendation against the broad use of aspirin in primary prevention, after recently reported results of the ARRIVE, ASCEND, and ASPREE trials...Read more
2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of AF
2019 07 Feb
An update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation has been released. The focused update includes revisions to the section on anticoagulation, revisions to the section on catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), revisions to the section on the management of AF complicating acute coronary syndrome...Read more
High-Sensitivity Assay More Accurate in Chest Pain Patients
2017 04 Jun
Findings from a large-scale registry study conducted by scientists at Karolinska Institutet show how the high-sensitivity troponin T assay of evaluating chest pain improves patient outcomes. The study is published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for emergency medical care. While this...Read more
Data Access: Empowering Chronic Heart Failure Patients
2017 01 May
Researchers at Indiana University are creating new information technology so patients with chronic heart failure can have easy access to their own health data. The new technology, called Power to the Patient, is intended to enable quick and preventative action to protect these patients, the researchers say. See Also : New Tools to Design Personalised...Read more
Radial Access, Same-Day PCI Could Save $300 Million Annually
2017 20 Feb
According to new research published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions , performing more transradial, same-day percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) not only benefits patients but is also associated with less complications and could result in potential savings of $300 million annually. PCI is one of the leading expenditures for cardiovascular...Read more
Study: 28% of U.S. Adults are Tobacco Users
2017 31 Jan
In the U.S., 28 percent of adults 18 years of age or older were current users of at least one type of tobacco product in 2013 and 2014 and nearly 1 in 10 youths 12 to 17 years of age used a tobacco product in the previous 30 days, with cigarette use being most prevalent. The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, will help inform...Read more
Current Models Do Not Predict Atrial Fibrillation Risk Accurately
2016 17 Oct
In a study published in the JAMA Cardiology , Darbar and colleagues found that the risk prediction model for atrial fibrillation (AF) developed by investigators on the Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology-Atrial Fibrillation (CHARGE-AF) trial does not accurately predict incidence of the condition. Various risk models have been...Read more
New Cardiac Imaging Technique Improves Accuracy
2016 17 May
A new technique for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging improves accuracy by removing patients' need to breathe, reveals research presented today at EuroCMR 2016 by Professor Juerg Schwitter, director of the Cardiac MR Centre at the University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland.1 The lack of motion allows acquisition of higher quality images in less...Read more
The BENEFIT Trial: Accelerating Diagnosis, Treatment and Research
2016 06 Mar
According to an article published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases by the Global Chagas Disease Coalition, without a more efficient treatment, more than 200,000 people living with Chagas disease will die from heart disease in the next five years. The conclusion is based on the findings from the international, multicenter, double-blind and placebo-controlled...Read more
Rapid Test Speeds Up Chest Pain Triage - BACC Trial
2015 02 Sep
According to German research presented at the ESC Congress in London, patients arriving at the emergency department with chest pain suggestive of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) can be triaged more quickly and more safely using a new rapid assay with refined cut-offs. In a Hot Line presentation, the Biomarkers in Acute Cardiovascular Care (BACC)...Read more
New Cholesterol Guidelines Offer Greater Accuracy
2015 16 Jul
According to a study published in JAMA , the 2013 cholesterol guidelines for determining statin eligibility are more accurate and efficient in identifying increased risk of cardiovascular disease events and presence of subclinical coronary artery disease as compared to guidelines from 2004. The 2013 guidelines from the American College of Cardiology...Read more
Patient Access to Cardiovascular Devices Delayed by Bureaucracy
2015 02 Jul
Patients are experiencing significant delays in access to approved cardiovascular devices due to bureaucratic inefficiencies, reveals a Devices White Paper from the Cardiovascular Round Table (CRT) published today in European Heart Journal. There is a clear correlation between declining death rates from cardiovascular disease and the introduction...Read more
Heart Catheterisation: Arm Is Safer Access Point
2015 20 Mar
A new study shows that patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their interventional cardiologist accessed the heart through an artery in the arm rather than the groin. Researchers said the results,...Read more
Ensuring Patient Access to Guideline-Based Therapies
2014 17 Nov
Misalignment between evidence-informed clinical care guideline recommendations and reimbursement policies has created care gaps that lead to suboptimal outcomes for patients denied access to guideline-based therapies. Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AFib) is discussed as an example in a study which appears in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology...Read more
Flu Vaccine: Key to Preventing Heart Disease?
2014 23 Oct
A new study published in Vaccine reveals for the first time the molecular mechanism which helps to explain how flu vaccines may be able to prevent heart attacks. Flu vaccines have long been known to have a protective effect against heart disease, thus reducing the risk of a heart attack. However, there is not much scientific information to explain...Read more
