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361 A qualitative study of primary care professionals views of case finding for depression in patients with diabetes or coronary heart disease in the UK Full Text BMC Family Practice, April 5, 2013 Review Article
362 Comparison of Adverse Outcomes After Contemporary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Women Versus Men With Acute Coronary Syndrome The American Journal of Cardiology, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
363 Meta-Analysis of Impact of Different Types and Doses of Statins on New-Onset Diabetes Mellitus The American Journal of Cardiology, April 4, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine Review Article
364 Safety and Effect of Very Low Levels of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol on Cardiovascular Events The American Journal of Cardiology, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
365 Experience with a Novel Retrograde Wiring Technique for Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Journal of Interventional Cardiology, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
366 Impact of Family History of Coronary Artery Disease in Young Individuals (from the CONFIRM Registry) The American Journal of Cardiology, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
367 Relation of Triiodothyronine to Subclinical Myocardial Injury in Patients With Chest Pain The American Journal of Cardiology, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
368 Adjuvant vancomycin for antibiotic prophylaxis and risk of Clostridium difficile infection after coronary artery bypass graft surgery The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
369 Clopidogrel plus indobufen in acute coronary syndrome patients with hypersensitivity to aspirin undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention Platelets, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
370 Mean platelet volume: An important predictor of coronary collateral development Platelets, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
371 Controversies about effects of low-kilovoltage MDCT acquisition on Agatston calcium scoring Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
372 Determinants of Extraaortic Arterial 18F-FDG Accumulation in Asymptomatic Cohorts: Sex Differences in the Association with Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Stenosis The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
373 Kidney stone formation is positively associated with conventional risk factors for coronary heart disease in japanese men The Journal of Urology, April 4, 2013 Clinical Article
374 Effects of prediabetes and diabetes on left ventricular and coronary microvascular functions Metabolism, April 4, 2013 Review Article
375 Incremental Risk of Prior Coronary Arterial Stents for Pulmonary Resection Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 4, 2013 Review Article
376 Risk Score for Predicting In-Hospital/30-Day Mortality for Patients Undergoing Valve and Valve/Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 4, 2013 Review Article
377 Prognostic Value of Cardiac Troponin I Measured With a Highly Sensitive Assay in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 3, 2013 Clinical Article
378 Abciximab During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Intracoronary, Intravenous, or Not at All? JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 3, 2013 Clinical Article
379 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in the Prediction and Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease Current Hypertension Reports, April 3, 2013 Review Article
380 The association between periodontitis and coronary heart disease: A quality assessment of systematic reviews The Journal of the American Dental Association , April 3, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine Clinical Article
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 summaryAs 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 summaryAs 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.
Read the article summary1 Rate versus rhythm control for management of atrial fibrillation in clinical practice: Results from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) registry American Heart Journal, April 1, 2013
2 Effect of Morbid Obesity on In-Hospital Mortality and Coronary Revascularization Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction in the United States The American Journal of Cardiology, April 5, 2013
3 Safety of new oral anticoagulants with dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes Annals of Pharmacotherapy, April 16, 2013
4 Prognostic Value of Cardiac Troponin I Measured With a Highly Sensitive Assay in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 3, 2013
5 Comparison of Effectiveness of High-Dose Intracoronary Adenosine Versus Intravenous Administration on the Assessment of Fractional Flow Reserve in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease The American Journal of Cardiology, April 29, 2013
6 Population-Based Study of the Use of Cardiac Stress Imaging and Referral for Coronary Angiography and Repeated Revascularization After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Mayo Clinic Proceedings, April 9, 2013
7 BIMA bypass grafting: long-term clinical benefits in a series of 1000 patients Heart, March 22, 2013
8 Use and misuse of statins after ACS: analysis of a prescription database of a community setting of 2,042,968 subjects European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, April 8, 2013
9 Coronary artery bypass graft surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with three-vessel disease and left main coronary disease: 5-year follow-up of the randomised, clinical SYNTAX trial The Lancet, April 18, 2013
10 L-Carnitine in the Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Mayo Clinic Proceedings, April 19, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine Review Article
11 Long-Term Mortality of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Stenting With Drug-Eluting Stents Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 8, 2013
12 Clinical utility of β-blockers for primary and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy , April 1, 2013
13 Effect of Platelet Inhibition with Cangrelor during PCI on Ischemic Events New England Journal of Medicine, April 8, 2013
14 Comparison of Adverse Outcomes After Contemporary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Women Versus Men With Acute Coronary Syndrome The American Journal of Cardiology, April 4, 2013
15 Long-term clinical follow-up of the multicenter, randomized study to test immunosuppressive therapy with oral prednisone for the prevention of restenosis after percutaneous coronary interventions: Cortisone plus BMS or DES veRsus BMS alone to EliminAte Restenosis (CEREA-DES) European Heart Journal, April 11, 2013
16 Long term survival in elderly patients with stable coronary disease European Journal of Clinical Investigation, April 17, 2013
17 Outcomes of apixaban vs. warfarin by type and duration of atrial fibrillation: results from the ARISTOTLE trial European Heart Journal, April 22, 2013
18 The Reliability and Prognosis of In-Hospital Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in the Setting of Acute Myocardial Infarction JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 15, 2013
19 Role of exercise in the prevention of cardiovascular disease: results, mechanisms, and new perspectives European Heart Journal, April 11, 2013
20 Comparison of Prasugrel and Ticagrelor Loading Doses in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients RAPID (Rapid Activity of Platelet Inhibitor Drugs) Primary PCI Study JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 12, 2013
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