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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Heart attack care is different for male and female patients—and the inconsistency can lead to fatal results

Women are prescribed fewer drugs after a heart attack than men—and they are more likely to die afterward as a result of that disparity.

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How do blood pressure medications affect coronavirus patients? Specialists hope to crack the code

Researchers have launched a new multi-center clinical trial aimed at learning more about how various blood pressure medications impact the health of patients with COVID-19.   

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Embracing salt substitutes could help China prevent 450K CVD deaths per year

The team also found that such a shift could prevent more than 740,000 non-fatal CVD events annually and decrease new chronic kidney disease cases by nearly 7%.

CAD deaths on the rise among young women in rural areas

Women in rural parts of the United States have experienced an increase in premature coronary artery disease (CAD) mortality, according to new findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, leads to more deaths

In addition to these latest findings, a NIH-backed panel is now specifically recommending against the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for treating COVID-19 patients.

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Facebook still a favorite soapbox for COVID-19 fibbers

The media watchdog NewsGuard has compiled a list of Facebook users who seem only too happy to “repeat, share and amplify” everything from quack cures to conspiracy theories.

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CMS allowing some providers to restart in-person care unrelated to COVID-19

CMS has announced that healthcare providers in communities experiencing low numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases may be able to once again provide more in-person care unrelated to the virus.

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Heart attack care during a pandemic: Medical societies share COVID-19 recommendations

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed patient care in countless ways, but percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains the recommended standard of care for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients.