Developing risk-adjusted models of mortality and other outcomes is an essential part of the quality improvement process for cardiac revascularization procedures.

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of post-myocardial infarction (MI) risk stratification in the elderly.

Repeat ultrasound tests help predict who is likely to have a stroke or heart attack, researchers say.

In the early stages after a heart attack, the most important early treatment is with drugs to dissolve the clot by chewing an aspirin. Therefore a conscious victim of a heart attack should chew one regular strength aspirin. Chewing of the aspirin will help to speed up its absorption. It has been pro

In today's hectic living conditions high blood pressure has become a very common health ailment. It is a very dangerous health condition and is often called the ''silent killer'' as it hardly shows any symptoms before hand but the good thing is that with a little changes in

A new analysis looks at treatment effects of rosiglitazone compared with original RECORD results. What do we know about metabolic management now that we didn't know before?

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Cholesterol level should be always below 200 in any person's body. Hence to maintain the proper level of cholesterol people should maintain a healthy food diet, people should try to avoid food which are rich in fats. People should also maintain a regular exercise regime to help them to reduce t

Periprocedural myocardial injury finally gets some pushback with remote post conditioning, but does timed BP-cuff inflation actually impact outcomes?

The unique effectiveness, and unique toxicity, of amiodarone

An artificial heart keeps heart failure patients alive long enough to receive a heart transplant -- welcome news for the 5 million Americans living with this condition.

Is erectile dysfunction the sentinel-event for males with cardiovascular disease?

Myth: All fatty foods tend to raise your cholesterol level.The dietary fats we consume are all not alike.They are the saturated fatty acids (which contain single bonds between all its Carbon atoms) and the unsaturated fatty acids (which could contain a double bond or several double bonds between Car

Everything that existed in this world has its beginning, some vague, some strange and some mysterious. Origin of high blood pressure on the other hand, falls somewhere between those metaphors. In some people it occurs naturally because they have the so-called family "history" of the diseas

ACC.07: Although only preliminary, the ABSORB results serve us to understand and improve the design of bioabsorbable stents.

Concord is a hybrid cultivar of the fox grape vine (Vitis labrusca) and the common grape vine (Vitis vinifera). This American grape derived its name from Ephraim Bull, who in 1843 planted the first Concord grape seed in Concord, Massachusetts. Concords have a wide assortment of uses as table grapes,

Medscape talks to Dr. Emmanuel Bujold about the latest evidence on the use of prophylactic low-dose aspirin in pregnancy and benefits that go beyond preeclampsia.

Is an immediate out-of-hospital therapeutic hypothermia strategy effective for MI management?

Henry Black and Andrew Vickers discuss "Intention to treat" using an analogy of driving to the beach. Does it count if you turn back?