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- Living near a major roadway linked with coronary atherosclerosis
- ISAR-DESIRE 2: No advantage, no downside to switching stents for DES in-stent restenosis
- Beta blockers seen as underused before referral for ICD, clashing with guidelines
- CVN: Heart Minute
- Journal Scan: Endovascular Stenting for Vertebral Artery Stenosis (J Am Coll Cardiol 2010;55:538-542.)
- Journal Scan: Metformin: Safety in Cardiac Patients (Heart 2010;96:99-102.)
- Noninvasive testing adds little to risk-factor screening for predicting obstructive CAD
- Eprotirome further reduces cholesterol levels in statin-treated patients
- Warfarin-treated patients at higher risk of ICH following tPA for stroke
- RESPOND: Ticagrelor improves platelet inhibition in both clopidogrel responders and nonresponders
- Fingertip stress test promising in proof-of-concept study
- Coffee associated with lower risk of arrhythmias
- Components of metabolic syndrome linked to plaque progression
- Going regional? Think local. New study probes overlap between PCI and non-PCI hospitals
- "Warranty period" for zero calcium score is at least four years
- Overweight, obese gain greater benefit from BP lowering
- ECG screening found cost-effective in kids with ADHD considered for stimulant drugs
- Dieting by DNA? Popular diets work best by genotype, research shows
- What's going to be hot at ACC 2010?
- Thomas Medical recalls transseptal sheaths
- Weekend admission delays major cardiac procedures
- OLIVUS: Olmesartan reduces atheroma progression?
- Weight fluctuations among normal-weight individuals increases CVD risk
- Apixaban better than European enoxaparin regimen for preventing VTE
- End-systolic volume may hold key to SVR success
- Most hospices ill-equipped to deal with ICDs
- Vigorous physical activity modestly more protective than moderate activity
- HbA1c in nondiabetics a potent mortality, CV risk marker in ARIC analysis
- RE-LY subanalysis suggests similar benefit, fewer bleeds with dabigatran in AF patients with prior stroke or TIA
- Call for increased awareness, identification of prediabetes
- Even low-level smoke exposure increases atherosclerosis and lipid changes in adolescents
- Rescue breathing improves CPR outcomes in kids
- Ogling Obama's lipids
- Weight loss, regardless of diet intervention, can reverse carotid disease
- AAA: Aspirin not warranted in healthy subjects with low ABI, based on population screening
- Obese kids as young as three have raised CRP
- D is for discord: Not all studies support vitamin-D-CVD link
- Adding ECG picks up abnormalities not detected by physical exam and medical history
- Case Study: A 46-Year-Old Woman is Referred For Evaluation of her Dyslipidemia, Hypertension, and Borderline Diabetes
- Studies find disparities in stroke incidence and AF treatment
- US salt-reduction policy would save billions of dollars
- COX-2 inhibitors blunt "preconditioning" effect of statin
- 64-slice CT shows promise as cardiac risk-stratifier
- Medicare will delay paying claims for two weeks
- Illness Perceptions After Myocardial Infarction: Relations to Fatigue, Emotional Distress, and Health-Related Quality of Life
- Sexual Problems in Cardiac Patients: How to Assess, When to Refer
- Sexual Dysfunction in Women With Cardiovascular Disease: What Do We Know?
- Foreword:Addressing Sexual Function in Cardiac Patients: Do We Need Guidelines?
- Heart Failure Symptom Assessment and Management: Can Caregivers Serve as Proxy?
- The Efficacy of a Motivational Nursing Intervention Based on the Stages of Change on Self-care in Heart Failure Patients
- Shared Medical Appointments After Cardiac Surgery-The Process of Implementing a Novel Pilot Paradigm to Enhance Comprehensive Postdischarge Care
- Evidence That the Brief Symptom Inventory Can Be Used to Measure Anxiety Quickly and Reliably in Patients Hospitalized for Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Commentary: Time to Treatment for Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Cost of Indecision
- Time to Treatment for Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Cost of Indecision
- High School Body Mass Index and Body Mass Index at Entry to a Cardiac Disease Risk Prevention Clinic and the Association to All-Cause Mortality and Coronary Heart Disease: A PreCIS Database Study
- Diabetes Mellitus and the Importance of Self-care
- PCNA: Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association
- Implanted LA-pressure sensor guides HF meds, prevents decompensations in pilot study
- Medicare pay cut of 21.2% to take effect Monday
- Diets high in fat, particularly trans fat, raise risk for ischemic stroke
- CREST: Stenting and endarterectomy show similar net safety and efficacy for carotid stenosis
- Remote ischemic conditioning increases myocardial salvage during acute MI
- ICSS: Continued higher event rates with stenting vs surgery for symptomatic carotid stenosis
- Less is more: Small changes would improve heart-disease outcomes in US
- Experts ponder expanding transcatheter valves indication to lower-risk patients
- GlaxoSmithKline fires back in defense of rosiglitazone
- ADMIRE-HF published: How imaging sympathetic nerve function can assess risk in CHF
- US scientists begin to unravel the mystery of 9p21
- Is there too much excitement for ticagrelor?
- Experts debate future of rosiglitazone in the wake of critical Senate report
- New details on potential adverse coumarin-clopidogrel interaction
- Volume CTA scanning may slash radiation dose
- Un-POPULAR? Utility of platelet-function tests "modest"
- FDA warning: HIV drug combo and rhythm disturbances
- Worse prognosis for patients with proximal peripheral artery disease
- Avandia analysis: Authors with financial conflicts draw more positive conclusions
- Walnuts may improve lipids, endothelial function in diabetics
- IOM report calls hypertension the "neglected disease"
- New Senate report puts Avandia safety in spotlight again
- Gene variants blur line between "lone" AF and typical AF presentation
- New MRI protocol for patients with implantable devices may eliminate defibrillation-threshold testing
- Warfarin can be stopped at three to six months postablation of AF, but editorial urges caution
- Expert Opinion: Relevance of statin pleiotropism to cardiovascular outcomes after ACS
- Latest Grassley letter seeks clarity on 510(k) loophole through which Myxo ring went to market
- Hypertension may predict dementia in older adults
- Amlodipine/benazepril best for slowing progression of chronic kidney disease
- ARTS II: DES and CABG have similar death, stroke, and MI out to five years
- More stroke patients are receiving guideline-recommended therapies
- Subcutaneous monitor 96% sensitive for AF in study
- New overview of 9p21 gene variants show significant but modest link with heart disease
- Increased risk of diabetes observed among statin-treated patients
- Broad genetic score adds nothing above traditional CV risk factors
- Enoxaparin beneficial in primary PCI?
- Dr Robert Hendel to lead expansion and coordination of cardiac imaging at U of Miami
- No benefit of HRT on CHD risk in recently menopausal women
- ICD complications are more common in CRT, dual-chamber devices
- DES in AMI: Benefits maintained at three years in SESAMI
- Migraine with and without aura linked to CVD events and risk factors
- ACC backs cardiologist for Congress, tests political clout at pivotal time for US healthcare
- Chocolate linked to lower stroke and stroke mortality risk
- WSJ argues COURAGE is a missed opportunity for comparative effectiveness savings
- Study shows weight loss improves ventricular structure
- UK NICE issues guidance on VTE prevention
- Authors of case report on a rare defibrillator problem clash with company over claims
- President Bill Clinton gets two stents at Columbia
- Heart-disease awareness in women: Getting better but a long way to go
- Possible link between H1N1 flu and myocarditis
- RECORD confirms climb in HF risk with rosiglitazone
- Childhood obesity and glucose intolerance linked with premature death
- Cardiac Science recalls over 12 000 AEDs
- Changing times: New approach needed in PAH trials
- Novel biomarker-guided strategy hastens optimal dosing in highest-risk HF patients
- Reassurance on enoxaparin anticoagulation in the cath lab
- FDA approves expanded rosuvastatin label
- Plaque composition may explain differences in men and women's cardiac event rates
- Aspirin's US REACH: 25% of secondary-prevention patients not treated
- New guidance for in-hospital torsades de pointes
- Sirolimus-eluting stent beneficial for in-stent restenosis
- Repeatedly telling patients of their coronary disease risk improves outcomes
- Zero means nothing: "Gatekeeper" role of calcium scoring questioned
- From the heart: Call for better African CV research
- African Americans have highest risk of peripartum cardiomyopathy
- Higher risk of AMI in women with gout
- Changes in diet and exercise can make a big difference within six months of ACS
- Thomas recalls SafeSheath CSG introducers
- A good report card for laser-assisted pacemaker/ICD lead extraction
- Statins fail to slow progression of small AAAs
- Religion, spirituality not associated with better cardiovascular health
- UK cardiologists petition NICE to reverse dronedarone decision
- Stand up and be counted: ECG-based test for long-QT syndrome proposed
- Cardiologist may score "big" in Ohio whistleblower case
- Procedure volume is a close proxy for popular hospital quality rankings
- Asymptomatic Brugada patients may not need ICDs
- One in five kids with abnormal lipids
- Opportunity lost: 400 000 US CHD deaths predicted for 2010, as risk-reduction goals fall short
- Déjà vu? Experts debate new data on diuretic/CCB combo and MI risk
- New advisory warns of CV risk with common prostate-cancer treatment
- POPE published: Avoid NSAIDs for asymptomatic pericardial effusions
- No rebound effect with platelets after stopping clopidogrel
- Herbal heartache: New review reminds cardiologists to query supplement use
- CT more accurate than MRI for ruling out coronary artery disease
- No time like the present: Study supports early mitral-valve repair in asymptomatic patients
- Best timing of surgery for active mitral endocarditis remains controversial
- Ripe for change: US ponders populationwide salt-reduction policies
- OCT finds additional at-risk lesions in AMI patients
- The atrial septal poucha new source of thrombus?
- Looking after their own: Surgeons may provide better care than intensivists in ICU
- Beta blockers: Less effect on pulse pressure than diuretics
- ARBs, ACE inhibitors, and Alzheimer's
- Study finds delaying surgery after PCI prevents kidney injury
- Scared healthy? Not quite: Mixed results for changing behavior with imaging
- Weight loss important in BP management: ENCORE published
- New UK data support ACCORD findings, emphasize need for individualization of blood glucose control
- Now in 3D! Automated three-dimensional X-ray angiography shows promise in small trial
- Ablation bests antiarrhythmic drug therapy in recurrent paroxysmal AF: THERMACOOL AF
- BMJ feature story peers into MIST controversy
- Liraglutide approved for type 2 diabetes
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons' national database effort comes of age
- FDA clears percutaneous valve for RVOT conduit
- Serial natriuretic-peptide testing unmasks shifts in CV risk in the elderly
- How to get "clinically significant" randomized trials
- Same weight loss, better BP with low-carb diet vs drug/diet combo
- New variant linked to platelet response and bleeding events with clopidogrel
- Obesity by any measure linked to increased ischemic-stroke risk
- FDA adds contraindication to sibutramine; Europe moves to yank it altogether
- Prehospital ECG speeds STEMI patients' route to cath lab
- Red yeast rice comparable to pravastatin for statin-intolerant patients
- Canadian transcatheter-valve series offers insights into highest-risk patients
- Don't get greedy: Registry data support treating culprit lesion only in initial PCI for STEMI
- Mild emphysema tied to subclinical LV diastolic dysfunction in population-based study
- New data prompt renewed calls for public-health initiative to cut salt in US diet
- FDA approves Thoratec's HeartMate II LVAD for destination therapy
- EVAR beats open surgery for ruptured AAAs
- ADA exalts HbA1c for diabetes diagnosis, updates aspirin recommendations
- ED predicts future CVD but doesn't add beyond traditional risk factors
- Use of preventive medications declines rapidly after stroke
- Telomere length could explain effects of fish oil in CHD
- Acceptable primary-PCI delay time may depend on patient baseline risk
- A-bomb survivor data affirm radiation/CVD risk link
- Tailored statin approach targeting baseline risk best for preventing CAD
- ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and beta blockers reduce risk of AF
- DNA methylation observed for first time in heart failure
- Guidelines survey aims for flexible design of CV-risk screening programs
- Court declines to hear ACC Medicare payment lawsuit
- Japanese study finds CT plaque analysis predicts post-PCI myocardial injury
- TAVI has low acute renal injury rate, compares favorably with surgical valve replacement
- US healthcare reform bills inspire fear and hope in cardiologists
- Cardiac CT angiography points to preclinical atherosclerosis in HIV+ men
- Weekend stroke patients more likely to receive tPA
- Call for regional systems of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
- PLATO-Invasive in print, with new data on stent thrombosis for ticagrelor
- Most Americans overweight, and one-third are obese: NHANES
- Cocaine-related sudden death not so rare
- Panel to FDA: Nebivolol shouldn't be approved for chronic heart failure
- Improving adherence better than lower thresholds for maximizing statin benefits
- First look at effects of resting heart rate and exercise on heart-disease deaths
Annual Symposium indexPCNA 3-day April Program on Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
PCNA 16th Annual Symposium - 17 CE/CPE, 7.65 Pharmacology
April 15-17, 2010
Northwest Chicago, IL 