Cardiology

Treating patients with diabetes can be enough of a challenge for doctors, add in the comorbidity of cardiac conditions as well and the work gets that much harder to navigate for even the most veteran clinicians.

As more women take leadership roles in gastroenterology and , it can go a long way in helping to bridge the gender gap in that other specialties in medicine.

As with many areas of medicine, the ratio of male doctors in gastroenterology to female counterparts is considerable – although work is being done to lessen that gap across the field.

Using data from four previously published studies and using mathematical models to extrapolate data to the current year, researchers at Johns Hopkins contended that medical errors were now the third leading cause of death in the US today.

Surgeons perform approximately 800,000 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgeries globally each year.

A recent analysis of past studies has shown that loneliness and social isolation are risk factors for both stroke and coronary heart disease with stroke showing a slightly greater association.

More good news on the Mediterranean diet, this time from the Mediterranean.

Encouraging results from a small study suggest that a combination of compounds found in grapes and oranges could help treat diabetes and protect against cardiovascular disease in obese patients.

A randomized trial found no benefits — and several large drawbacks — in the use of ablations guided by focal impulse and rotor modulation in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Researchers report that patients with psoriatic arthritis face significantly higher risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity compared with the general population.

What drug has shown survival benefit greater than 3 months in high-risk PAH patients? Select your answer and move to the next question.

Do patients diagnosed with anxiety disorder experience a greater burden of metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hyperlipidemia?

Greek physician Hippocrates believed doctors should be “clean in person, [and] well-dressed.â€

Certifying and accrediting organizations have begun looking at a new quality metric: failure to rescue (FTR).

Stroke prevention works, but it can be challenging in places like Nigeria where resources are limited, healthyfood is expensive, and cultural beliefs may include witchcraft. A San Diego, CA team is working on strategy for stroke patients.

Stroke and cardiovascular risks have been associated with the most common and effective classes of drugs to treat migraines, but new research shows that these concerns could be unjustified.

While epidemiology has traditionally used cohort studies, this particular method has been criticized because it is time consuming, most findings are incremental, it’s inflexible, and frequently, the results cannot be validated.

When a patient is dying, it can be difficult to know what to say to them. Here are a few tips and approaches that I have gathered from experts that I hope will help you get through those hard conversations while continuing to provide the best possible care to your patient.

Being a good doctor is hard work, especially considering the current state of our health care system. Some doctors, however, are simply bad news. And because most doctors today have comparable education and credentials, bad doctors don’t exactly stick out like sore thumbs.

How do I loathe EHRs? Let me count the ways...

Congenital heart disease may have the same name in adult and pediatric care but the two conditions can often require vastly different approaches in care. Despite that work in the field is being done to help patients of all age maintain a high quality of life.

As congenital heart patients transition from pediatric care to adult care there is a world of new challenges awaiting them. How they approach those challenges and how their doctors help them in that time can determine how they manage the condition in the future.

Treatment of adult congenital heart disease has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few decades but there is still much more work to be done. Areas of research like stem cells could be part of the future of treating this condition in the future.

A lot has been done to bolster the treatment of congenital heart disease and managing the risks of this patient population. Because of that these patients are able to live a longer and fuller life including pregnancy and childbirth like other people.

Even the most severe cases of congenital heart disease can be treated to a level where they can safely navigate high risk pregnancies.

It was not that long ago that women with congenital heart disease were discouraged from becoming pregnant. Thanks to advances in diagnosis and treatment that is no longer the case.

Researchers found that as-needed use of novel oral anticoagulants can effectively lower stroke risk in “motivated†patients with atrial fibrillation.

An analysis of population-based medical databases has found that strokes are more likely to prove fatal in diabetic patients who use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) than in diabetic patients who do not.

The last several days in San Francisco have been quite busy. Nearly 15,000 international and national heart rhythm specialists had gathered to share important innovations and treatments for patients suffering from heart disease.

Men diagnosed with multiple sclerosis often have higher blood pressure than women, in addition to higher levels of diabetes, epilepsy, depression, and anxiety.