Healthcare-Today: 6TH MARCH 2012. A meeting of 120 stroke specialists has concluded that GPs should offer routine screenings to people aged over 65 in order to identify atrial fibrillation. The meeting, which was organised by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) last week, said routine screening could reduce deaths caused by strokes. Atrial fibrillation […]
Circheartfailure.ahajournals: Stavros E. Mountantonakis1*, Maria V. Grau-Sepulveda2, Deepak L. Bhatt3, Adrian F. Hernandez2, Eric D. Peterson2 and Gregg C. Fonarow4 -February 23, 2012. Abstract Background—It is unclear if the presence of atrial fibrillation (AF) on admission is associated with worse in-hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF). This study evaluated the clinical characteristics, management, length of stay, and mortality of HF […]
Circep AHA Journals.org: Yu-Feng Hu1, Hung-I Yeh2, Hsuan-Ming Tsao3, Ching-Tai Tai1, Yenn-Jiang Lin1,Shih-Lin Chang1, Li-Wei Lo1, Ta-Chuan Tuan1, Kazuyoshi Suenari4,Cheng-Hung Li1, Tze-Fan Chao1 and Shih-Ann Chen1* – February 21, 2012. Abstract Background—HSP27 is related to the pathogenesis of AF. However, the clinical relationship between HSP27 and AF is unclear. The present study was conducted to determine the clinical relationship between heat shock protein 27 (HSP27) and atrial fibrillation […]
Science Direct: Annie Guérina, Jay Linb, Mehul Jhaveric, Eric Q. Wua, Andrew P. Yua, Martin Cloutiera, Genevieve Gauthiera, Joseph S. Alpertd – February 13, 2012. Abstract Background This retrospective cohort study compared rates of treatment persistence, incidences of de novo stroke, arterial embolism, and hemorrhage/bleeding, and healthcare resource use and costs between atrial […]
HRS/EHRS/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Recommendations for Patient Selection, Procedural Techniques, Patient Management and Follow-up, Definitions, Endpoints and Research Trial Design HRS Online: March 2012 Download the AF Expert Consensus Statement (PDF, 1.4M) The consensus document, an update to the 2007 version, was developed in collaboration with the European Heart […]
Health News Review: by Gary Schwitzer – February 24, 2012. A spin around the Web today will give you many stories about citrus fruits and women’s stroke risk. Citrus Fruits May Lower Women’s Stroke Risk – WebMD But in the body of the story there’s not a word about the limitations of such an observational study. Only […]
How information is presented to a patient makes a difference in health decisions News-Medical: February 23, 2012. A paper from Rhode Island Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examines whether different presentation formats, presenter characteristics, and patient characteristics affect decision-making for patients requiring treatment for asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Based on the study, the researchers concluded […]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new report released today by HealthGrades found that from 2008 to 2010, emergency admissions for heart attack decreased slightly (1.7 percent) for Medicare patients, but admissions for stroke increased by 2.2 percent. Heart attack and stroke were among the conditions with the highest mortality rates, with nearly one in 10 […]
A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke.ahajournals: Ralph L. Sacco, MS, MD, FAAN, FAHA, Chair; Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Co-Chair; Drew E. Blakeman, MS; Edward C. Jauch, MD, MS, FAHA; Stephanie Mohl – February 1, 2012. Stroke remains a leading cause of disability and death for people of all races and ethnicities. Nearly 800 000 Americans […]
Stroke.ahajournals: Adam M. Bernstein, MD, ScD; An Pan, PhD; Kathryn M. Rexrode, MD; Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH; Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD; Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH; Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH – December 29, 2011. Abstract Background and Purpose—Few dietary protein sources have been studied prospectively in relation to stroke. We examined the relation between foods that are major protein sources and risk […]
