A new study observes a higher incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) during the late night time/early morning hours as compared with morning or daytime hours. Continue reading →

People that take antiplatelet and beta-response blocker medications to reduce the risk of a myocardial infarction (MI) may be at an increased risk during hot-weather events, according to a new study.1 The research was conducted using data from a registry of MI cases that took place in Augsburg, Germany from 2001 to 2014 during the region's warm season (May to September). Continue reading →

COVID-19 vaccination provides individuals with a reduced risk of experiencing an acute myocardial infarction or ischaemic stroke after becoming infected with the virus according to the findings of a study by Korean researchers. It has now become recognised that following an acute infection with COVID-19, beyond the first 30 days, individuals with COVID-19 have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and which includes cerebrovascular disorders, dysrhythmias, ischaemic and non-ischaemic heart disease, pericarditis, myocarditis, heart failure and thromboembolic disease. While it is clear that a COVID-19 vaccination is safe and offers protection against severe COVID-19, hospitalisation and death against all current variants of concern, what is less clear is whether vaccination is able to reduce the post-infection cardiovascular sequelae Continue reading →

Objectives The primary goal of this study is to explore demographic and comorbid factors that increase the hospitalization risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients with vasculitis along with the utilization rate of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)/angioplasty. Additionally, we aim to study the prevalence of AMI in vasculitis inpatients based on geographical distribution Continue reading →

For a study, researchers sought to examine whether using 4% albumin solution instead of Ringer acetate as the cardiopulmonary bypass prime solution and the perioperative intravenous volume replacement solution lowered the incidence of significant perioperative and postoperative complications in patients having cardiac surgery. Patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic, mitral, or tricuspid valve surgery, ascending aorta surgery without hypothermic circulatory arrest, and/or the maze procedure were randomly assigned to 2 study groups in a randomized, double-blind, single-center clinical trial from 2017 to 2020 at a tertiary university hospital (the last follow-up was April 13, 2020). Continue reading →

1. Amongst patients with gout, those who experienced a cardiovascular event were likely to have recently experienced a preceding gout flare Continue reading →

Early improvement of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is associated with improved all-cause and cardiac death at 5 years in patients with severe aortic stenosis and LVEF less than 50%, new research shows. Further analyses also revealed a significant interaction by sex, with the mortality benefit largely in women Continue reading →

TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The presence of hypertension is associated with an increased risk for hospitalization for omicron infection among individuals who received at least three mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to a research letter published online July 20 in Hypertension. Joseph Ebinger, M.D., from the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and colleagues examined the characteristics associated with severe omicron infection necessitating hospitalization, despite receipt of three doses of an mRNA vaccine in a retrospective cohort study. Continue reading →

The following article was written by Dr. Alaa Diab as a CardioNerds Conference Scholar for The American Society for Preventive Cardiology 2022 Congress on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is becoming more prevalent in the United States, with an estimate of 37.3 million Americans living with diabetes according to the 2020 CDC statistics. Continue reading →