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Dec 21, 2018
This week, the barbershop may become a key battleground in the fight against hypertension, the American Diabetes Association upgrades newer antihyperglycemics, refreshed appropriate use criteria for peripheral artery disease are released, and body mass index as a measure of cardiometabolic risk gets...
Dec 14, 2018
This week, the American Heart Association says that statins’ benefits far outweigh the risks, a smartphone app is nearly as good as an ECG at diagnosing STEMI, stroke thrombolysis appears safe in patients prone to GI bleeding, and a new strategy for pausing DOAC therapy works in...
Dec 7, 2018
This week,
apixaban edges out other DOACs for octogenarians,
methotrexate fails to cut cardiovascular events in a large
trial,
withdrawing heart failure medications after recovery leads to
relapse,
and
showing patients their own atherosclerosis may reduce their
cardiovascular event...
Nov 30, 2018
From AHA 2018, an analysis gives clue to how empagliflozin cuts cardiovascular risk, and study findings challenge cholesterol guidelines for patients with type 1 diabetes. Also, we take a closer look at how smoke-free policies affect blood pressure, and how magazine-ranked "Best Hospitals" actually...
Nov 23, 2018
The MDedge Cardiology team is back this week for part II of their conversation on the 2018 annual scientific session of the American Heart Association.