http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—In patients undergoing primary angioplasty for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), diabetes is associated with worse long-term outcomes, including mortality, reinfarction, stent thrombosis, and target vessel revascularization (TVR), according to research published online Dec. 28 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-stemi-diabetes-linked-worse-long-term.html Diabetes Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:30:02 EST news278762991 New research from the United Kingdom has found that primary angioplasty does increase the survival rate of heart attack patients. The Imperial College London researchers said recent studies examining the role of specialist heart attack centres generated misleading results, because physicians tend to allocate the best care to high-risk patients. They have discovered that the lack of benefit indicated in clinical records is an outcome of the sickest patients being sent to the specialist centres, effectively skewing the data. The finding was recently presented in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-advocate-access-angioplasty-treatment.html Cardiology Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:01:33 EST news273484880 Recent studies questioning the role of specialist heart attack centres produced misleading results because doctors tend to send the sickest patients to have the best care, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-life-saving-role-heart-centers.html Cardiology Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:00:02 EST news272043853