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Cardiology - Complementary Medicine News & Articles
MDLinx Cardiology – on this page: Articles from over 2,000 of the peer-reviewed medical journals, pre-sorted and ranked by what’s most relevant to your day-to-day practice, and summarized to save you precious time. From vascular disorders and stroke to valvular disorders, coronary artery disease and arrhythmias, to pediatrics and General Medical News our physician editors make sure that all members of your heart health team can be current on the literature in 5 minutes or less every day.
Also on this page: Bonus content exclusive to MDLinx, clinical pearls from The Smartest Cardiologist daily quiz competition and Cardiology Physician Review. Plus, the “must-read” articles related to cardiology, personally chosen by our physician editor, D. Scott Cunningham, MD, PhD.
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Latest Full Text Articles (8) Focus on CAD561 A modified yoga-based exercise program in hemodialysis patients Complementary Therapies in Medicine, September 21, 2007
562 The protective role of Kangen-karyu against fructose-induced metabolic syndrome Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, September 20, 2007
563 Hypolipidemic effects and mechanisms of Panax notoginseng on lipid profile Journal of Ethnopharmacology , September 19, 2007
564 Preventing Progression of Type 2 Diabetes: The Reflex to Use Pharmacological Therapy American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, September 18, 2007
565 Neuroimaging Acupuncture Effects in the Human Brain The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, September 17, 2007
566 Safety of Acupuncture Practice in Japan: Patient Reactions, Therapist Negligence and Error Reduction Strategies Full Text Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine , September 14, 2007
567 The Effect of Herbal Medicine Baicalin on Pharmacokinetics of Rosuvastatin, Substrate of Organic Anion-transporting Polypeptide 1B1 Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, September 13, 2007
568 Use of Quantitative Flow Cytometry to Measure Ex Vivo Immunostimulant Activity of Echinacea: The Case for Polysaccharides The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, September 12, 2007
569 The Process of Whole Person Healing: “Unstuckness” and Beyond The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, September 11, 2007
570 The Role of Physical Activity and Fitness in the Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, September 10, 2007
571 Effect of low-fat, fermented milk enriched with plant sterols on serum lipid profile and oxidative stress in moderate hypercholesterolemia Full Text American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, September 10, 2007
572 Developing classification indices for Chinese pulse diagnosis Complementary Therapies in Medicine, September 7, 2007
573 The nature of the active ingredient in ultramolecular dilutions Homeopathy, September 6, 2007
574 Effects of Level of Meditation Experience on Attentional Focus: Is the Efficiency of Executive or Orientation Networks Improved? The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, September 5, 2007
575 Current issues and future directions in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research Complementary Therapies in Medicine, September 4, 2007
576 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Australia: A National Population-Based Survey The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, August 31, 2007
577 Garlic, hypertension and patient education International Journal of Cardiology, August 30, 2007
578 Cardiovascular effects of Danshen International Journal of Cardiology, August 29, 2007
579 Long term structural effects in water: autothixotropy of water and its hysteresis Homeopathy, August 28, 2007
580 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Modalities Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine, August 27, 2007
Clinical Pearls in Cardiology
- Intracoronary abciximab when compared to intravenous abciximab significantly reduces the risk of death among patients with STEMI undergoing PCI
- Thrombolysis in MI (TIMI) scores between 5-14 on admission place patients at high risk for 30-day mortality and should be transferred to a monitored inpatient unit or CCU
- High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T is superior to contemporary sensitive cardiac troponin I in early diagnosis of non-STEMI and the prediction of MI and mortality among patients with suspected ACS
Highlights in Cardiology
Heart failure risk associated with adiponectin level
As published in Obesity, a J-shaped association between adiponectin level and heart failure exists. The study involved 787 males with heart failure and 787 healthy controls from the Physicians’ Health Study. The relative risk of heart failure from lowest to highest quintile of adiponectin level was 0.74, 0.67, 0.70, and 0.92.
Read the article summaryApo B-48 is a marker for CAD
As published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, fasting serum apo B-48 levels were elevated in patients with Coronary Artery Disease (n=96; 6.9 µg/mL) compared to patients without CAD (n=67; 3.9 µg/mL). Along with other cardiac risk factors, an apo B-48 level > 4.34 µg/mL was predictive of CAD.
Read the article summaryPost-exercise heart rate recovery predicts cardiac autonomic neuropathy in T2DM
As published in Diabetic Medicine, cardiac autonomic neuropathy can be predicted in patients with T2DM and negative exercise echocardiograms based on post-exercise heart rate recovery. Of the 135 study subjects, 27 (20%) had cardiac autonomic neuropathy, the criteria for which included > 2 of 7 autonomic function markers (4 cardiac reflex tests and 3 indices of short-term heart rate variability). The optimal cut-offs for post-exercise heart rate recovery at 1-, 2-, and 3-minutes were < 28, < 50, and < 52 beats per minute, respectively.
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