Fewer people will take statins if new heart standards are widely adopted
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Kristen Fischer
Jun 10, 2024
If American Heart Association guidelines passed in November 2023 are widely adopted, about 40% fewer people would meet the criteria to be on statins, a new study shows.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, June 8
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 05, 2024
Diet advice lacks for heart attack survivors, study shows … Report: 1 in 6 who stop antidepressants have symptoms … Study: Rheumatic heart disease death rates surge … Service dogs lower PTSD risk...
Statins reduce heart disease, death risks in older adults: study
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Kristen Fischer
May 29, 2024
Statins can lower the risk for heart disease in people aged more than 75 years, according to the results of a new study.
Deadliest type of heart attack hits those with lower income worse than more affluent, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
May 03, 2024
A new report called out care disparities with regard to a specific type of heart attack known as ST‐segment–elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Authors said the differences, namely in income level,...
Study: Antipsychotics for dementia more harmful than previously understood
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 16, 2024
People with dementia who use antipsychotic drugs have a higher risk for serious adverse outcomes such as stroke, blood clots, heart attack, heart failure, fracture, pneumonia and acute kidney injury, according...
22 percent of those over 50 hospitalized with RSV had acute cardiac events: study
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 16, 2024
About a quarter of people over the age of 50 with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) experienced acute cardiac events, according to a new study. Furthermore, the risk for severe outcomes in those who had...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, April 11
By
Kristen Fischer
Apr 11, 2024
Olezarsen may cut triglycerides by about half … Beta blockers may not help some heart attack survivors … D-mannose doesn’t reduce recurrent UTIs, trial finds … Anxiety tied to Parkinson’s, lower...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, April 9
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 09, 2024
Hospitalizations didn’t go down after use of algorithm to identify diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease … Oral vaccine worked well to stop urinary tract infections … App program could lower urinary...
Heart attack, stroke in older patients twice as likely within 2 weeks of mild flu
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 14, 2024
People over the age of 50 who have mild flu and few risk factors still are at double the risk of heart attack and ischemic stroke in the two weeks following infection — and that risk quadruples in people...
Clinical briefs for Friday, Oct. 6
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 06, 2023
COVID-19 procedures slowed heart attack responses … “Good” cholesterol linked to dementia … Faulty antibiotics can increase antimicrobial resistance, study finds … Proton pump inhibitors up dementia...