Cardiology News & Articles

1 Improving Long-Term ACS Management: Is There a Role for the New Antiplatelets Journal of Interventional Cardiology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

2 High Platelet Reactivity on Clopidogrel Therapy Correlates With Increased Coronary Atherosclerosis and Calcification JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

3 Systemic Exposure to Atorvastatin Between Asian and Caucasian Subjects: A Combined Analysis of 22 Studies American Journal of Therapeutics, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

4 Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ticagrelor in patients with stable coronary artery disease: results from the onset-offset and respond studies Clinical Pharmacokinetics, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

5 Visit-to-visit blood pressure variability in the European Lacidipine Study on Atherosclerosis: methodological aspects and effects of antihypertensive treatment Journal of Hypertension, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

6 Intraoperative Administration of Clevidipine to Prevent Vasospasm After Radial and Internal Mammary Artery Grafts During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting American Journal of Therapeutics, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

7 Antidepressant Use and Risk of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Nationwide Case–Time–Control Study Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

8 Association of Heart Rate and Outcomes in a Broad Spectrum of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

9 Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and cardiac hypertrophy in children with metabolic syndrome Pediatric Nephrology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

10 Physical Activity Limitation as Measured by Accelerometry in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Chest, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

11 Postpartum Lipid Levels in Women with Major Depression Journal of Women's Health, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

12 Defining high-risk patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention: A comparison among different scoring systems and clinical definitions International Journal of Cardiology, May 22, 2012

13 Association of atherosclerosis with presence and progression of osteoarthritis: the Rotterdam Study Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, May 22, 2012

14 The association of blood transfusion with mortality after cardiac surgery Transfusion, May 22, 2012

15 Antithrombotic medication and incident open-angle glaucoma Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

16 Accuracy, image quality and radiation dose comparison of high-pitch spiral and sequential acquisition on 128-slice dual-source CT angiography in children with congenital heart disease European Radiology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

17 Hypertension Induces Brain β-Amyloid Accumulation, Cognitive Impairment, and Memory Deterioration Through Activation of Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products in Brain Vasculature Hypertension, May 22, 2012

18 Blood Pressure and Retinal Microvascular Characteristics During Pregnancy Hypertension, May 22, 2012

19 Mitral annular longitudinal function preservation after mitral valve repair: The MARTE study International Journal of Cardiology, May 22, 2012

20 Ethnic Differences in Blood Pressure and Hypertensive Complications During Pregnancy Hypertension, May 22, 2012

1 Comparison of alternate day atorvastatin treatment to daily treatment in maintaining LDL-Cholesterol targets in patients with variable coronary risk profile Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, April 2, 2012

2 Influence of vitamin D supplementation on plasma lipid profiles: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Lipids in Health and Disease, April 5, 2012    Free full text

3 Comparison of lipid-modifying efficacy of rosuvastatin versus atorvastatin in patients with acute coronary syndrome (from the lunar study) The American Journal of Cardiology, April 17, 2012

4 Concomitant use of clopidogrel and statins and risk of major adverse cardiovascular events following coronary stent implantation British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, April 24, 2012

5 Evidence-based Use of Statins for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease American Journal of Medicine, April 9, 2012    Evidence Based Medicine

6 Statins as a possible cause of inflammatory and necrotizing myopathies Atherosclerosis, April 23, 2012

7 Association of Treatment With Losartan vs Candesartan and Mortality Among Patients With Heart Failure JAMA, April 12, 2012

8 Comparative effectiveness of statin plus fibrate combination therapy and statin monotherapy in patients with type 2 diabetes: use of propensity-score and instrumental variable methods to adjust for treatment-selection bias Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, April 4, 2012

9 Effects of Celecoxib On Restenosis after Coronary Intervention and Evolution of Atherosclerosis (Mini-COREA) Trial: celecoxib, a double-edged sword for patients with angina European Heart Journal, March 12, 2012

10 Early statin treatment prior to primary PCI for acute myocardial infarction: REPERATOR, a randomized placebo-controlled pilot trial Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, April 19, 2012

11 Lipid-lowering and anti-inflammatory effect of ezetimibe in hyperlipidemic patients with coronary artery disease Heart and Vessels, March 22, 2012

12 Accelerated platelet inhibition by switching from atorvastatin to a non-CYP3A4-metabolized statin in patients with high platelet reactivity (ACCEL-STATIN) study European Heart Journal, April 25, 2012

13 On-treatment non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, apolipoprotein b, triglycerides, and lipid ratios in relation to residual vascular risk after treatment with potent statin therapy JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 18, 2012

14 STAR VaS - Short Term Atorvastatin Regime for Vasculopathic Subjects: a randomized placebo-controlled trial evaluating perioperative atorvastatin therapy in noncardiac surgery Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, April 16, 2012

15 Galectin-3 predicts response to statin therapy in the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure (CORONA) European Heart Journal, April 27, 2012

16 Comparison of arterial remodeling and changes in plaque composition between patients with progression versus regression of coronary atherosclerosis during statin therapy (from the truth study) The American Journal of Cardiology, April 26, 2012

17 Statin therapy is associated with aneurysm sac regression after endovascular aortic repair Journal of Vascular Surgery, April 3, 2012

18 Vitamin D deficiency, CD4+CD28null cells and Accelerated Atherosclerosis in Chronic Kidney Disease Nephrology, April 13, 2012

19 Effect of omega-3 fatty acids supplementation on endothelial function: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Atherosclerosis, April 4, 2012

20 Dual effects of statins therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus and SLE-related atherosclerosis: The potential role for regulatory T cells Atherosclerosis, April 20, 2012