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ARBs Preferable to ACE Inhibitors in Large Observational Hypertension Study
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Making the Case for Sex-Specific CVD Guidelines
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April 20, 2021
Patients in the SPRINT trial with the highest predicted risk of CVD at baseline derived the greatest benefit from intensive blood pressure lowering, but they also faced an increased likelihood of treatment-related adverse events.
Researchers say that since most of those events were mild and fleeting, particularly compared to the severity of the outcomes prevented, intensive therapy is worth the risk. Still, the findings, from a secondary analysis, have important implications for guidelines and practice.
“What we were hoping is that we would find a large number of people who derived a lot of benefit at very low risk of adverse events. And that is what we did not find,” senior author Andrew Moran, MD (Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY), told TCTMD.
Women Treated for Acute HF Report Worse QoL Than Men
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March 05, 2021
In one of the largest series of professional athletes with COVID-19, the incidence of myocarditis was rare, just 0.6%, providing reassuring evidence that the virus does not portend long-term cardiac consequences for the overwhelming majority of these competitive athletes.
Among 789 professionals from Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, the National Football League, and men and women from the National Basketball Association, 30 had abnormal results on cardiac screenings, including ECG, echocardiography, and troponin testing. After further testing, inflammatory heart disease was detected in just five athletes; three cases of myocarditis and two of pericarditis.
The new findings, which were published online March 4, 2021, in