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Added: 3 years ago
One-third of Patients Not Receiving Defibrillation in Time Patients are not receiving defibrillation soon enough after initial cardiac arrest, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Delay in defibrillation—defined as coming after more than two minutes—is associated with a lower survival rate and lower likelihood of return to spontaneous circulation following… View more

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Added: 3 years ago
Doctors Proactive in Pre-diagnosis Treatment of Heart Attacks Doctors are treating patients with a suspected heart attack as aggressively as they are patients who have been diagnosed with an attack. Researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine analyzed patient data from over 450 hospitals in 12 countries. They compared the treatment received by patients with different levels of… View more

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Author(s): Robert A Vogel Added: 3 years ago
There are about 65 million Americans (or 20–25% of the population) with hypertension.As a top line figure that is probably a little low as it uses the rather strict definition of high blood pressure as being 140 over 90.Hypertension is also very strongly age-related, and as we get older that frequency goes up a lot. Essentially, 95% of Americans will be hypertensive in their lifetime. It is a… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Sergio Baptista
Author of more than 120 scientific communications (of which more than 50 in International Congresses). Author of more than 20 articles published, most in International journals Associate investigator of multiple multicentre clinical trials and national and international registries Assistant of the course of Introduction to the Clinic (3rd year, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon). Professor and… View more
Author(s): Kellee P Patterson , Keith C Ferdinand Added: 3 years ago
“From putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art, and Cleverness before common sense; From treating patients as cases; And from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the Endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.” – Sir Robert Hutchison1 “Data are not facts; facts are not information; information is not truth; truth is not wisdom. The wise application of empirical facts… View more

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Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Simon Kennon
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Structural Intervention

 Job title: Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Simon Kennon qualified from Manchester Medical School in 1992. He completed general medical training in and around London (Royal Free Hospital, Southend General Hospital, Newham General Hospital and the London Chest Hospital) before training in General and Interventional Cardiology at St Bartholomew’s and the London Chest Hospitals. His training continued with a fellowship in interventional… View more
Author(s): Naomi Abe , John D Bisognano Added: 3 years ago
Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in the US, affecting 29% of the adult population.1 Once considered a benign, compensatory mechanism for ageing, high blood pressure (BP) is now recognised as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It is estimated that inadequate BP control is responsible for 62% of cases of cerebrovascular disease, 49% of cases of ischemic heart… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Danielle Belardo
Job title: Director of Preventive Cardiology & Co-Director of Research and Education
Personal History Dr Danielle Belardo is a New Yorker who relocated to Philadelphia after college to start her medical career.1 She is now a Preventive Cardiologist based in Newport Beach, California.2 In college, she started volunteering at the Alzheimer’s Association and got involved with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s program to raise funds for the pediatric oncology unit at DuPont… View more
Author(s): Thomas D Giles Added: 3 years ago
Introduction The concept of 'hypertensionÔÇÖ as a clinical entity has been a work in progress for decades. At some point, the diagnosis of hypertension began to be linked to specific levels of blood pressure. The Joint National Committee (JNCI-JNC7) reports provide a perspective and an understanding that a clearer and precise definition might avoid the dead-end that the current concept of… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Cardio-oncology A-Z: Breast Cancer Treatment Related Cardiotoxicity With Dr Anne Blaes
Added: 1 year ago
In this video we invited Dr Anne Blaes, Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Minnesota, to summarise the topic of breast cancer treatment related cardiotoxicity. Dr Blaes is an active medical oncologist with a special interest in the late effects of cancer therapy. Discussion Points: 1. What are the main cancer treatments that cause this problem? 2… View more

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