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CVD deaths rose, imaging declined during pandemic

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: January 14, 2021

Two new papers quantify the impact of COVID-19 on patients with heart disease: more deaths, less disease testing or diagnosis. Experts suggest...

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COVID-19 mortality in hospitalized HF patients: Nearly 1 in 4

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: December 31, 2020

In-hospital mortality was 24.2% for patients with HF hospitalized with COVID-19, as compared with 14.2% for...

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NETs a possible therapeutic target for COVID-19 thrombosis?

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: December 31, 2020

Small study, but may provide insight regarding COVID-19 patients who experience acute STEMI.

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Elite soccer players have big hearts and that’s okay

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: December 27, 2020

Dataset provides reference standards to answer a question cardiologists face regularly: Is this heart ‘big good’ or ‘big bad?’ Norms are...

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COVID-19 case fatality doubled in heart transplant patients

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: December 25, 2020

Heart recipients are more vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and should be referred for specialist care, according to transplant experts from...

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Myocarditis rare, macrophage infiltration common at COVID autopsy

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: November 18, 2020

An autopsy study shows myocarditis is uncommon, seen in only 14% of COVID-19 deaths, but macrophage infiltration is very common and might explain...

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Proinflammatory dietary pattern linked to higher CV risk

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: November 10, 2020

Diets high in foods that increase inflammation were associated with increased risk of heart disease and stroke, compared with those filled with...

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ACC expert consensus on post-TAVR arrhythmias

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: October 28, 2020

The new document was deemed essential because of the frequency, consequences, and heterogeneity of approaches to post-TAVR conduction disturbances...

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Higher serum omega-3 tied to better outcome after STEMI

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: October 28, 2020

Regular consumption of marine-derived and vegetable-derived omega-3s was associated with improved prognosis after STEMI, observational data show...

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Observational study again suggests lasting impact of COVID-19 on heart

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: September 21, 2020

Cardiac MR study raises concern for myocarditis post COVID in some young athletes, but commentators suggest...

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Non-COVID-19 clinical trials grind to a halt during pandemic

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: August 19, 2020

Many more trials than usual are being paused or stopped, new findings suggest, creating downstream disruption to...

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Antiaffirmative action paper blasted on Twitter now retracted

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: August 7, 2020

An inflammatory paper that flew under the radar when it was published in the Journal of the American Heart...

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More U.S. cardiologists opting for larger practices

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Debra L. Beck
Publish date: July 29, 2020

Industry consolidation and administrative burdens appear to be pushing U.S. cardiologists away from solo and small practices.

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CMS to broaden transcatheter mitral valve repair coverage, and change its name

Author:
Debra L. Beck
Publish date: July 21, 2020

It’s not final, but functional mitral regurgitation would be newly covered under the proposed national coverage decision, which also changes the...

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Primary prevention statins cut mortality even in the very elderly: VHA study

Author:
Debra L. Beck
Publish date: July 9, 2020

The current findings “provide additional support for treatment guidelines that have increasingly advocated for more widespread use of statin...

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