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- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: May 9, 2022
A few variables could help predict a patient’s risk of dying within 90 days after a hospital stay for COPD.
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: April 27, 2022
“It’s very simple to ask your patient: ‘Did you have asthma as a child? When did your asthma start?’ ”
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: April 14, 2022
The American Heart Association has issued a new scientific statement addressing cardiovascular risk in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: April 6, 2022
A blood pressure polygenic risk score using 1,000 genetic variants has shown the potential to calculate cardiovascular risk in people with diabetes...
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: April 4, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Abbott’s Aveir leadless pacemaker system for patients with bradycardia.
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: March 28, 2022
A controlled study of 12 young adults found lack of sleep directly correlated with increases in harmful visceral adipose tissue.
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: March 17, 2022
High-intensity exercise improved cardiac function and biomarkers after a year, but omega-3 supplementation didn’t, in a small prospective study.
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: March 10, 2022
A database study of 154,000 patients found that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give people taking immunosuppressants significant protection against COVID-19 b...
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: March 7, 2022
A database study found that embolic protection during transcatheter aortic valve replacement may improve outcomes, although not the occurrence, of ...
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: February 18, 2022
Fewer than 5% of people with diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease are prescribed drugs for cholest...
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: February 14, 2022
A large cohort study finds that a baseline test for lipoprotein(a) can help determine cardiovascular disease risk and that repeat testing isn't nee...
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: February 7, 2022
Four subtypes of bronchiolitis plus a decision tree can determine which infants are most likely to develop asthma...
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: January 18, 2022
A validated pilot program to educate preschoolers about heart health serves as a template for expanding the program into more schools.
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: January 10, 2022
“We don’t really have a treatment for acute exacerbations of pulmonary fibrosis and the mortality is extremely high, so it’s really critical that w...
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- Author:
- Richard Mark Kirkner
Publish date: December 20, 2021
A feasibility study suggests that coronary artery calcium scanning may be a better predictor of the need for statins than pooled cohort equations.<...
