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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, 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 MI161 Berbamine increases myocardial contractility via a Ca2+-independent mechanism Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, April 18, 2011
162 Modulation of Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels by Chinese Herbal Extracts Phytotherapy Research, April 12, 2011
163 Effect of Acupuncture on Heart Rate Variability in Primary Dysmenorrheic Women The American Journal of Chinese Medicine (AJCM), April 1, 2011
164 Crossover study of diets enriched with virgin olive oil, walnuts or almonds. Effects on lipids and other cardiovascular risk markers Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, March 30, 2011
165 Effects of lycopene supplementation on oxidative stress and markers of endothelial function in healthy men Atherosclerosis, March 25, 2011
166 Olive oil in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease Maturitas, March 24, 2011
167 Cardiotoxicity from ‘safe’ herbomineral formulations Tropical Doctor, March 21, 2011
168 Effects of cranberry juice consumption on vascular function in patients with coronary artery disease American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, March 18, 2011
169 Effect of Acute Administration of an Herbal Preparation on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate in Humans Full Text International Journal of Medical Sciences , March 14, 2011
170 Evaluation of the antioxidant properties of fruit and flavoured black teas European Journal of Nutrition, March 11, 2011
171 Olive (Olea europaea) leaf extract effective in patients with stage-1 hypertension: Comparison with Captopril Phytomedicine, March 3, 2011 Clinical Article
172 The aqueous extract, not organic extracts, of Terminalia arjuna bark exerts cardiotonic effect on adult ventricular myocytes Phytomedicine, March 3, 2011
173 An Oral Lipid Challenge and Acute Intake of Caffeinated Coffee Additively Decrease Glucose Tolerance in Healthy Men The Journal of Nutrition, February 28, 2011
174 Role of phytosterols in lipid-lowering: current perspectives QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, February 22, 2011
175 Mistakes in application of tuina therapy for stroke rehabilitation Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science, February 17, 2011
176 Percutaneous Closure of Coronary Artery Fistulae in Adults with Intermediate Term Follow-Up Results Journal of Interventional Cardiology, February 9, 2011
177 Daily Red Wine Consumption Improves Vascular Function by a Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase-Dependent Pathway American Journal of Hypertension, January 31, 2011
178 Attitudes, Patterns of Recommendation, and Communication of Pediatric Providers About Complementary and Alternative Medicine in a Large Metropolitan Children's Hospital Clinical Pediatrics, January 20, 2011
179 Hypotensive, Hypolipidemic, and Vascular Protective Effects of Morus alba L. in Rats Fed an Atherogenic Diet The American Journal of Chinese Medicine (AJCM), January 12, 2011
180 Osteopathic manipulation as a complementary treatment for the prevention of cardiac complications: 12-Months follow-up of intima media and blood pressure on a cohort affected by hypertension Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies , January 12, 2011
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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