Clinical

This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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A healthy blood pressure in middle age may limit brain damage later in life

The study's authors explored data from more than 37,000 adults. 

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Adding more plant-based foods makes Mediterranean diet even better for cardiovascular health

The study, published in Heart, examined how even minor dietary changes can affect a person's health. 

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Another pro athlete, football player Tommy Sweeney, diagnosed with COVID-related myocarditis

A cardiologist detected Sweeney’s condition during a mandatory checkup.

New technique for heart bypass surgery could limit patient discomfort, lower costs

The updated approach relies solely on CT imaging data and does not require a catheter

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Standing up for your health: Research links sedentary behavior with heart failure risk among older women

“Our message is simple: sit less and move more,” one researcher said. 

COVID crisis in Nebraska: ‘We’re watching a system breaking in front of us and we’re helpless to stop it’

The hospital many consider the best prepared in the U.S. to handle a pandemic prior to the COVID crisis now finds itself “on an absolutely catastrophic path.”

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New technique could reduce heart attack-induced heart failure

“The clinical implications of this discovery are significant,” one researcher said. 

CDC floats guidance on COVID vaccine distribution

If you’re on the front lines in the war on COVID-19, you should go to the front of the line for a COVID vaccination, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is recommending.