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Heart attack patients in North Carolina who were rushed directly to hospitals equipped to do percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) received treatment significantly faster than patients first taken to hospitals unequipped to perform PCI and then later transferred for treatment, according to research reported at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research 2012 Scientific Sessions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-heart-patients-pci-hospitals-faster.html Cardiology Thu, 10 May 2012 13:15:47 EST news255874541 Patients who were sexually active before suffering a heart attack were one and a half times more likely to recapture their sex lives if they received guidance on the topic before leaving the hospital, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-doctors-advice-key-heart-victims.html Health Wed, 09 May 2012 08:58:30 EST news255772657 (Medical Xpress) -- Reviewing heart attack cases during monthly meetings with emergency medical services and maintaining a positive working environment are two of the relatively inexpensive strategies that can reduce mortality rates among patients with heart attacks, Yale researchers report in a study published in the May issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-key-factors-linked-death-patients.html Cardiology Tue, 01 May 2012 06:00:03 EST news255068989 An award-winning research project, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), has tested a new imaging method which could help improve how doctors predict a patient's risk of having a heart attack. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scientists-technique-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:51:53 EST news254487094 Chest pain patients educated about their future heart attack risk and involved in deciding care options were more likely than less-aware patients to opt out of stress testing, according to research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-chest-pain-patients-opt-stress.html Cardiology Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:00:07 EST news253274261 The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) today announced the initiation of the HORIZONS-AMI II randomized trial, evaluating Promus Element platinum-chromium everolimus-eluting stents versus Omega bare-metal stents in patients with heart attack undergoing primary angioplasty with bivalirudin anticoagulation. The HORIZONS-AMI II trial will also investigate the chronic use of the antiplatelet medications prasugrel versus clopidogrel in patients free of major events at 30 days. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cardiovascular-foundation-horizons-ami-ii-clinical.html Cardiology Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:58:18 EST news252060971 (HealthDay) -- Heart attack patients who take either a high or low dose of aspirin daily have the same level of protection against another heart attack or other cardiovascular events such as stroke, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-low-dose-daily-aspirin-heart-patients.html Cardiology Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:10:01 EST news251957338 Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute have, for the first time ever, made a connection between tiny genetic molecules called microRNAs and the imminent threat of a heart attack, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-first-ever-link-tiny-genetic-imminent.html Cardiology Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:30:01 EST news251904285 An experimental blood thinning drug made by the pharmaceutical giant Merck may reduce the risk of dying from a heart attack but also boosts the danger of internal bleeding, researchers said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-merck-blood-thinner-results.html Cardiology Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:12:54 EST news251835164 Health care practitioners have long understood the importance of "door to balloon" time for heart attack patients—the faster they can get the patient from the door of the hospital to a catheterization lab to open a clogged artery, the better the patient will do. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-paramedics-key-role-speedy-heart.html Cardiology Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:13:26 EST news251547054 Results from a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute clinical trial show that treating heart attack patients with an infusion of their own heart-derived cells helps damaged hearts re-grow healthy muscle. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-first-of-its-kind-stem-cell-re-grows-healthy.html Cardiology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:30:01 EST news248371179 On Valentine's Day, people who have been unlucky in love are sometimes said to suffering from a "broken heart." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-broken-heart.html Health Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:46 EST news247912995 Treatment with three relatively new "targeted" cancer drugs has been linked to a slightly elevated chance of fatal side effects, according to a new analysis led by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They added that the risk remains low, but should be taken into account by physicians and patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-cancer-drugs-fatal-side-effects.html Cancer Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:20 EST news247755859 Care for Asian-American heart attack patients improved between 2003 and 2008, according to a study published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. The study found Asian-Americans and whites received about the same level of care, and that differences in care between the two groups decreased over time. The study is significant because little is known about the treatment and outcomes of Asian-Americans who've suffered a heart attack. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-asian-americans-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:44:42 EST news245436275 Unhappy with today's health care? Think of what it was like to be sick 200 years ago. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-england-journal-years-medical-history.html Other Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:47:38 EST news244921622 Patients treated for acute heart attacks in the United States are readmitted within 30 days more often than in other countries, a finding explained in part by significantly shorter initial hospitalizations, according to an international study led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-short-hospitalizations-heart-readmissions.html Health Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:25:51 EST news244830341 Federal health officials have added new safety warnings to the heart rhythm drug Multaq after company studies linked the pill to higher rates of heart attack, stroke and death in a subset of patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-fda-heart-sanofi-multaq.html Medications Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:18:04 EST news243533874 "After an arterial injury, the inner layer of cells in the artery begins to regrow. In the long term, this usually causes more harm than good", says Maria Gomez. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-dangerous-cell-regrowth-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:27:59 EST news242393264 Two linked clinical studies that will show whether stem cell therapy can save the lives of heart attack patients are now underway in London, following the award of €11.7 million funding from the European Commission. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-largest-heart-stem-cell-underway.html Medical research Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:40:01 EST news242032437 Most heart attack patients transferred between hospitals for the emergency artery-opening procedure called angioplasty are not transported as quickly as they should be, Yale School of medicine researchers report in the first national study of "door-in door-out" time for transfer patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-hospitals-critical-window-heart-patients.html Cardiology Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:00:06 EST news241715095 Cardiologists are quick to point to statistics showing that the "door-to-balloon" treatment time for heart attack patients has dropped significantly in the past few years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-response-arteries-critical-patients.html Cardiology Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:35:07 EST news240662099 In a contemporary cohort of acute heart attack patients, 70 percent of the patients were unaware they had coronary heart disease (CHD) prior to the event and 60 percent of those patients were women or young men. However, these two subgroups are less likely to qualify for aggressive preventive therapy and, therefore, do not receive preventive medications that could reduce the heart attack risk, according to a study being presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) scientific sessions in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 16. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-women-young-men-responsible-large.html Cardiology Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:42:42 EST news240658953 The use of specific medications following a heart attack has been shown to reduce cardiovascular events and mortality, however; while highly effective, the rate of adherence to these medications is poor. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) evaluated whether eliminating co-payments for these medications would increase adherence and improve outcomes in patients who have had a heart attack. The findings will be presented as a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions on November 14 and simultaneously published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-co-payments-heart-medications-adherence.html Health Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:30:39 EST news240492629 University Hospitals Case Medical Center researchers could still be close to giving heart attack patients a second chance…just not as they originally thought. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-heart-recovery-aided-stem-cell.html Cardiology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:32:16 EST news240485529 When given for hours as a continuous dose, the heart medication nitroglycerin backfires -- increasing the severity of subsequent heart attacks, according to a study of the compound in rats by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-nitroglycerin-severity-heart.html Cardiology Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:06:00 EST news239461540 Despite substantial reductions in the hospital death rates for heart attack patients across all age groups, there are still worrying inequalities in heart attack management for the elderly, a new study has shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-hospital-heart-death-elderly.html Cardiology Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:40:02 EST news238213827 Research which claims to show that the introduction of patient choice in the NHS reduced deaths from heart attacks is flawed and misleading, according to a report published in The Lancet today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-uk-patient-choice-health-based.html Health Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:00:01 EST news237383297 Increasing levels of high-density lipoproteins, better known as HDL or "good" cholesterol, reduced the risk for heart attack and stroke among patients with diabetes. That's according to a new study appearing online today in The American Journal of Cardiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-good-cholesterol-heart-diabetes-patients.html Cardiology Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:40:30 EST news237199206 Newly discovered subtle markers of heart damage hidden in plain sight among hours of EKG recordings could help doctors identify which heart attack patients are at high risk of dying soon. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-ekg-anomalies-heart-fatal.html Cardiology Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:00:06 EST news236432792 Heart attack patients taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in combination with antiplatelet therapy -- acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), clopidogrel or both (dual antiplatelet therapy) -- are at higher risk of bleeding than patients taking ASA alone, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-combined-ssris-antiplatelet-therapy-heart.html Medical research Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:26:59 EST news236258793