Cardiovascular - General

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• Risk Factors
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• Treatment

Cardiovascular - General

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

NEWS:

American Heart Association Updates Recommendations for Blood Pressure Measurements

Heart Disease Shouldn't Be A Surprise

Home Blood Pressure Readings Help Predict Heart Risk

Latest heart disease test may not be helpful

Magnetic resonance angiography in children: technique, indications, and imaging findings. (Pediatr Radiol)

Peptide May Help Predict Heart Disease

Spotting Clogs In Arteries Often Difficult

USPSTF Issues Screening Guidelines for Coronary Heart Disease

Warning Signs Of A Heart Attack -- Or An Impending One

ARTICLES:

NGC-Differential diagnosis of chest pain.

Screening for Coronary Heart Disease: Recommendation Statement

Women And Heart Disease Symptoms

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Bedside Limited Echocardiography by the Emergency Physician Is Accurate During Evaluation of the Critically Ill Patient (PEDIATRICS)

Contrast-enhanced MR angiography for carotid disease (NEUROLOGY)

[Evaluation of carotid artery lesion by echography] (Nippon Rinsho)

History of the evolution of echocardiography. (Int J Cardiol)

Intraoperative echocardiography in minimally invasive cardiac surgery and novel cardiovascular surgical techniques. (Am Heart Hosp J)

Maternal and obstetric risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome in the United States. (Obstet Gynecol)

MR Findings of Cortical Blindness Following Cerebral Angiography: Is This Entity Related to Posterior Reversible Leukoencephalopathy? (American Journal of Neuroradiology)

Multidetector pulmonary CT angiography: advances in the evaluation of pulmonary arterial diseases. (Semin Ultrasound CT MR)

Non interventional cardiac diagnostics: computed tomography, magnetic resonance and real-time three-dimensional echocardiography. Techniques and clinical applications. (Minerva Cardioangiol)

[Noninvasive coronary artery imaging: CT and MR] (J Radiol)

Practice standards for electrocardiographic monitoring in hospital settings (Circulation)

Routine Heart Disease Screening Not Recommended (The Journal of Family Practice)

Seasonal variation in serum cholesterol levels: treatment implications and possible mechanisms. (Arch Intern Med)

Should oral glucose tolerance test be a routine examination after a myocardial infarction? (Int J Cardiol)

Survival associated with two sets of diagnostic criteria for congestive heart failure. (Am J Epidemiol)

[The basics of left ventricular functional analysis with MRI and MSCT] (Rofo)

The performance of blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors as screening tests for ischaemic heart disease and stroke. (J Med Screen)

Usefulness of Exercise Testing in the Prediction of Coronary Disease Risk Among Asymptomatic Persons as a Function of the Framingham Risk Score. (Circulation)

Whole-body CT Scanning for cancer and coronary disease: Does it pass the test? (Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine)

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