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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...