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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 (6) Full Text Articles (410) Focus on CAD
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1 Triple Therapy With Aspirin, Prasugrel, and Vitamin K Antagonists in Patients With Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation and an Indication for Oral Anticoagulation JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, May 20, 2013    Clinical Article

2 Esomeprazole and aspirin fixed combination for the prevention of cardiovascular events Full Text Vascular Health and Risk Management, May 20, 2013    Clinical Article

3 In Vivo Evaluation of Carotid Artery Stents Using Multi-Detector-Row Computed Tomography Angiography: Comparison of 3 Kernels Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, May 20, 2013    Clinical Article

4 Innominate Artery as an Alternative Site for Proximal Anastomoses in Patients With a Severely Calcified Aorta Journal of Cardiac Surgery, May 20, 2013    Clinical Article

5 Pacemaker or Defibrillator Surgery without Interruption of Anticoagulation New England Journal of Medicine, May 20, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Clinical Article

6 Sexual Orientation Disparities in Cardiovascular Biomarkers Among Young Adults American Journal of Preventive Medicine, May 20, 2013    Clinical Article

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7 Targeted use of heparin, heparinoids, or low-molecular-weight heparin to improve outcome after acute ischaemic stroke: an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials The Lancet Neurology, May 17, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article    Clinical Article

8 Non-pharmacological strategies for the treatment of acute ischaemic stroke The Lancet Neurology, May 17, 2013    Clinical Article

9 Sexual dysfunction in pre-menopausal diabetic women: clinical, metabolic, psychological, cardiovascular, and neurophysiologic correlates Acta Diabetologia, May 17, 2013    Review Article

10 Predictive value of elevated cystatin C in patients undergoing primary angioplasty for ST-elevation myocardial infarction Journal of Critical Care, May 17, 2013    Clinical Article

11 The prognostic impact of the stroke unit concept after transient ischemic attack Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, May 17, 2013    Clinical Article

12 Experimental and Analytical Performance Evaluation of Short Circular Hydrodynamic Journal Bearings Used in Rotary Blood Pumps Artificial Organs, May 17, 2013    Clinical Article

13 Trends in C-Reactive Protein Levels in US Adults From 1999 to 2010 American Journal of Epidemiology, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

14 Relationship between aspirin/clopidogrel resistance and intra-stent thrombi assessed by follow-up optical coherence tomography after drug-eluting stent implantation European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

15 Increased Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Plasma Homocysteine Levels Predict Cardiovascular and All-Cause Death: A Population-Based Cohort Study European Neurology, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

16 Diabetes mellitus, but not small dense low-density lipoprotein, is predictive of cardiovascular disease: A Korean community-based prospective cohort study Journal of Diabetes Investigation, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

17 Relation between Serum Free Fatty Acids and Adiposity, Insulin Resistance and Cardiovascular Risk Factors from Adolescence to Adulthood Diabetes, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

18 Changes in Sodium Levels in Processed and Restaurant Foods, 2005 to 2011 JAMA Internal Medicine, May 16, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Clinical Article

19 Effects of hypocaloric diets with different glycemic indexes on endothelial function and glycemic variability in overweight and in obese adult patients at increased cardiovascular risk Clinical Nutrition, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

20 Depression as a risk factor for adverse outcomes in coronary heart disease Full Text BMC Medicine, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

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Clinical Pearls in Cardiology

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.

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Apo 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.

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Post-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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Most Popular Cardiology Articles

Last month's top read Top Articles of 2012

1 Effective elimination of dabigatran by haemodialysis Thrombosis and Haemostasis, April 12, 2013

2 Body adiposity index and all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in men Obesity, March 22, 2013

3 Improving the use of direct oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation European Journal of Internal Medicine , April 12, 2013

4 The REMEDEE Trial A Randomized Comparison of a Combination Sirolimus-Eluting Endothelial Progenitor Cell Capture Stent With a Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, April 17, 2013

5 Statins and autoimmunity Immunologic Research, April 17, 2013    Review Article

6 Practical use of dabigatran etexilate for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation International Journal of Clinical Practice, April 9, 2013

7 Comparison of Double Kissing Crush Versus Culotte Stenting for Unprotected Distal Left Main Bifurcation Lesions : Results From a Multicenter, Randomized, Prospective DKCRUSH-III Study JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2, 2013

8 Advances in Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation: Enhanced Risk Stratification Combined With the Newer Oral Anticoagulants Clinical Cardiology, April 11, 2013    Free full text    Review Article

9 Five-year outcomes of self-expanding nitinol stent implantation for chronic total occlusion of the superficial femoral and proximal popliteal artery Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, April 3, 2013

10 Antiplatelet Therapy in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with CKD: What Is the Evidence Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, April 8, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

11 Association between Advanced Age and Vascular Disease in Different Arterial Territories: A Population Database of Over 3.6 Million Subjects JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 12, 2013

12 Effect of increased potassium intake on cardiovascular risk factors and disease: systematic review and meta-analyses British Medical Journal, April 9, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine

13 Vorapaxar in Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease Circulation, April 10, 2013

14 Cell Therapy of Peripheral Arterial Disease Circulation Research, April 29, 2013

15 Combined non-invasive functional and anatomical diagnostic work-up in clinical practice: the magnetic resonance and computed tomography in suspected coronary artery disease (MARCC) study European Heart Journal, April 29, 2013

16 Carotid body removal for treatment of chronic systolic heart failure International Journal of Cardiology, April 9, 2013

17 Effect of Insulin Glargine and n-3FA on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in People With Dysglycemia at High Risk for Cardiovascular Events: The Glucose Reduction and Atherosclerosis Continuing Evaluation Study (ORIGIN-GRACE) Diabetes Care, April 9, 2013

18 Body mass index and incident coronary heart disease in women: a population-based prospective study BMC Medicine, April 5, 2013    Free full text

19 Negative aspects of close social relations and 10-year incident ischaemic heart disease hospitalization among middle-aged Danes European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, April 11, 2013

20 Vitamin E in the prevention of cardiovascular disease- the importance of proper patient selection Journal of Lipid Research, April 3, 2013    Review Article

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