Clinical Pearls for Cardiology

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Hypertension

• Patients with HFpEF often have difficult-to-control hypertension.

• Aerobic exercise training reduces ambulatory BP in patients with resistant hypertension.

• Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated with poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes.

• Hypertension and overweight are independent risk factors for CVD.

• Elevated serum testosterone decreases BP parameters in men.

Heart Failure

• The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients hospitalized with HF is increasing.

• Systolic BP is strongly linked to mortality in patients with acute heart failure and low ejection fractions.

• Iron deficiency is frequent in heart failure.

• Hypokalemia increases risk of death in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction.

• Empagliflozin improves pulmonary artery pressures in patients with heart failure.

Myocardial Infarction

• AF with type 2 MI increases the risk of in-hospital mortality.

• Serum uric acid is a risk factor for myocardial infarction.

• Direct admission to the cath lab for primary PCI lowers mortality risk in patients with STEMI.

• Outcomes of Impella-treated patients with acute MI complicated by cardiogenic shock have improved over time.