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IMAGE:This image summarizes data from this study on the obesity paradox and heart failure. view more Credit: Journal of the American College of Cardiology WASHINGTON (Dec. 22, 2014) -- Patients who were obese before developing heart failure lived longer than normal weight patients with the same condition according to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that examined the "obesity paradox" by following obese and non-obese heart failure patients for more than a decade. Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, researchers looked at body mass index before the initial diagnosis of heart failure in 1,487 patients and followed them for 10 years, comparing the survival rates of obese, overweight and normal weight patients after the development of heart failure. The majority of patients included in the study were overweight (35 percent) or obese (47 percent) prior to their initial diagnosis of heart failure. During the 10 year follow-up period, 43 percent of the patients in the study group died, but the overweight and obese patients had better survival rates compared to the normal weight patients. Over the decade of follow-up, 38 percent of obese and 45 percent of overweight patients died compared … Continue reading →

Gary Waters/Getty Images/Ikon Images Gary Waters/Getty Images/Ikon Images If your cardiologist is away at a conference when you're having a stabbing feeling in your chest, don't fret. You may be more likely to live. A study published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found frail patients admitted to teaching hospitals with two common types of heart problems were more likely to survive on days when national cardiology conferences were going on. The researchers also discovered that heart attack patients who were at higher risk of dying were less likely to undergo angioplasties when conferences were occurring, yet their mortality rates were the same as similar patients admitted at other times. An angioplasty, in which a doctor unblocks an artery with an inflatable balloon inserted by a small tube, is one of the most common medical procedures for cardiac patients. The conclusions about teaching hospitals surprised even the authors, who had begun their inquiry anticipating that death would be more common during cardiology meetings because hospital staffs were more short-handed than usual. Finding the opposite, the researchers speculated that for very weak patients, aggressive treatments may exceed the benefits. "There's something very specific about cardiology meetings and cardiology outcomes," said … Continue reading →

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New Drug Of The Year This was an easy choice. The new drug of the year isLCZ696, the upcoming heart failure drug from Novartis. At the beginning of the year only a few heart failure experts were aware of it, and no one in the heart failure community or on Wall Street had even suggested that it might be a blockbuster. Expectations, if any, were that the drug would join the long string of recent failures of novel cardiovascular drugs, especially since LCZ696 is a chemical cousin to omipatrilat, the Bristol Myers drug which certainly counts as one of the most spectacular drug failures of all time. Then, on the last day ofMarch, during the American College of Cardiology meeting, Novartis issueda press releasedisclosing that the pivotal phase 3 LCZ696 trial,PARADIGM HF, had been stopped early on the recommendation of theData Monitoring Committee because ofa significant reduction in the combined primary endpoint of cardiovascular death and heart failure hospitalization. The initial announcement garnered onlymodest interest, since by now many observers have learned to be skeptical when a trial is stopped early. Too often the results dont hold up or reflect a statistically significant difference thatmay nottranslate into clinical significance. But … Continue reading →

MUSCATINE, IowaUnityPoint HealthTrinity Muscatine has announced the opening of its new cardiology clinic at 1608 Cedar St. The new cardiology clinic will be staffed by Dr. Harry Wallner, cardiologist. The Trinity Muscatine Cardiology Clinic will provide cardiovascular services specializing in the prevention, detection, management, treatment and coordination of care, when needed, for adult cardiovascular diseases, a press release stated. With more than 25 years experience, Dr. Wallner is board-certified in Cardiovascular Disease and specializes in non-invasive cardiology. He has served as medical staff president for Trinity Medical Center and chairperson of the Department of Medicine at Trinity Medical Center. Dr. Wallner has also served as director of several departments that specialized in pacemakers, Holter monitoring, electrocardiography and electrophysiology at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago. The Trinity Muscatine Cardiology Clinics hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. The clinic will start taking appointments Dec. 22. For more information, call 563-262-2000. Trinity Muscatine is part of UnityPoint HealthTrinity, and as such is able to coordinate care with the nationally recognized Trinity Heart Center located in Rock Island, Illinois, to provide comprehensive heart care services and cardiac research. Read more from the original source: UnityPoint HealthTrinity Muscatine to open cardiology clinic … Continue reading →

Dr. Gregg Schuyler, Cardiology St. Pete Dr. Gregg Schuyler, a Cardiologist at the Heart Institute in St. Petersburg, FL explains his lifelong desire to be a physician and his love of research and h... By: HCA West Florida … Continue reading →

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