Cardiology

Leptin (an adipocyte-secreted hormone) has been an object of observation since 1994. Its levels in the body are roughly proportional to an individual's amount of adipose tissue. It seems to regulate energy homeostasis, decrease energy intake, and increase energy expenditure. From its discovery, researchers hoped that its manipulation could be useful clinically.

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When patients have a defibrillator implated they have many concerns about their overall health, including how it affects their sex life. Research has shown the importance of doctors and their patients working together through these issues.

While warfarin has long been a common treatment option for patients with atrial fibrillation new medications are coming to the market which provide different benefits than the original option.

Analyses of patient records indicate that obesity increases the risk of recurrence among patients who undergo ablation for atrial fibrillation but suggest that sustained weight loss can reduce the risk.

Automatic external defibrillators are becoming more common throughout the country and the world helping to save countless lives. However with some devices not available at all times of the day there are questions about how they could be used more effectively

The Framingham Heart Study has been one of the most in depth studies in the field of cardiology and medicine as a whole. A recent portion of the study looked at the impact of carbon monoxide exhalation and its role in patient health.

Highly trained female athletes showed no sign of a negative effect on their hearts after intense workouts--contradicting studies that found such maximal excercise can be counter-productive, researchers said at the AHA meeting in Orlando, FL.

Heart disease presents differently in women, and a drug for angina that works for most men did not help most women with their angina, researchers reported today.

Injecting globs of a biopolymer based on brown algae into the heart muscle of patients with advanced heart disease helped halt or reverse disease. The procedure is meant to thicken the ventricle wall. That reduces pumping stress.

An investigational drug called andexanet alfa that can reverse the anticoagulant effects of FXa inhibitors met all primary and secondary efficacy endpoints, researchers said in a late-breaking clinical trial report at the AHA meeting in Orlando.

Analysis of data from the PEGASUS-TIMI 54 trial showed high rates of treatment discontinuation due to adverse events such as bleeding and dyspnea, with the highest rate occurring in the first year of treatment. Patients who stuck with treatment experienced a reduction in cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, and stroke.

Chest pain is one of the most common reasons that patients visit the emergency room, and the use of troponin testing can help cut down the time between first medical contact to final patient disposition.

Intravenous administration of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) appears safe in selected patients who were already on novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) a team reported at the American Heart Association Annual Scientitific Session in Orlando, FL.

Registering with multiple organ transplant centers may give wealthier patients an edge over less affluent patients who may be more deserving of a transplant.

Depending on where people live their ability to do a simple exercise like walking can be greatly affected. How they choose to incorporate walking into their lives can go a long way in determining their overall health.

Students around the world are taught the benefits of healthy eating but sometimes that message does not always reach its desired audience effectively. Because of that new efforts are underway to better get the message across.

The Fat Fibre Sodium Score was created using the top three most predictable cardiovascular risk-reducing food categories and offers a quick, easy way to evaluate nutrition changes during post-cardiac rehabilitation.

The significant others of patients undergoing implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) have long been concerned about continuing sexual activity following the implantation.

Caloric restriction among mammals whose body mass index is normal, defined as eating about 25% fewer calories than one would during ad libitum intake, increases life span in many species.

Heart disease is the number one killer of US women, but a national survey found cardiovascular health is not on most women's radar.

For overweight adults with type 2 diabetes, study results show that even light walking was linked to an average 10-point drop in blood pressure.

There are many anti-thrombotics available. An industry study showed apixaban had the best record of dissolving clots without causing major bleedign.

A recent study assessed whether a mobile app for the Android can promote better eating and exercise habits which can lead to improved heart health.

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) can dissolve lethal clots in the lungs but also carries a risk of excessive bleeding. Tennessee researchers reported on a new approach that worked better in a mouse study.

Type 2 diabetes drug empagliflozin significantly diminished the incidences of hospitalizations and even death from heart failure.

Previous studies have shown that less than one-third of patients discharged from the hospital for acute coronary syndrome actually remain abstinent from smoking.

Iron buildup in the brain may be related to the development of neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers have found the mechanism leading to this iron accumulation, at least in mice.

Study results show PCSK9 inhibitor alirocumab reduces cholesterol by increasing the fractional clearance rate of IDL and LDL.

Reducing the risk that stroke patients face of falling can be a matter of chosing proper oral anticoagulants.Researchers said edoxaban is less risky than warfarin.