:: June 2009

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Genetic Factors May Predict Depression In Heart Disease Patients “According to the study, published in the April issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, the genes are related to the vascular system, suggesting that vascular health – which includes the body's network of blood vessels, arteries and veins – may be a predictor of depression in individuals with heart disease. This is the first large-scale genetic study of depressive symptoms in cardiac patients. "Depression can significantly impact quality of life for heart disease patients and can increase the risk for additional cardiac events or even death," said lead author Jeanne M. McCaffery, PhD, of The Miriam Hospital's Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center. "Although it's too early to begin to speculate about the possible clinical implications of these findings, it's intriguing to think that there may be a genetic explanation as to why people with heart disease are more susceptible to depression." “

ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

NGC - Acute coronary syndromes: 2005 International Consensus Conference on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science with Treatment Recommendations. (2005)

NGC - ACC/AHA 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease). (2006)

NGC - Acute coronary syndromes. A national clinical guideline. (2006)

NGC - Antithrombotic therapy for coronary artery disease: the Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy. (2004)

NGC - Cardiac arrhythmias in coronary heart disease. A national clinical guideline. (2007)

NGC - Chronic chest pain—suspected cardiac origin. (2006)

NGC - Coronary angiography and indications for CABG or angioplasty. (2004)

NGC - Coronary heart disease (CHD): symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. (2008)

NGC - Diagnosis and treatment of chest pain and acute coronary syndrome (ACS). (2006)

NGC - Differential diagnosis of chest pain. (2008)

NGC - Evaluation of primary care patients with chronic stable angina: guidelines from the American College of Physicians. (2004)

NGC - Gender-specific practice guidelines for coronary artery bypass surgery. (2004)

NGC - Practice advisory for the perioperative management of patients with cardiac rhythm management devices: pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: a report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Perioperative Management of Patients with Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices. (2005)

NGC - Primary care management of chronic stable angina and asymptomatic suspected or known coronary artery disease: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians. (2004)

NGC - Role of noninvasive testing in the clinical evaluation of women with suspected coronary artery disease. (2005)

NGC - Secondary prevention of coronary artery disease clinical practice guidelines. (2006)

NGC - Shortness of breath--suspected cardiac origin. (2006)

NGC - Stable coronary artery disease. (2006)

NGC - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons practice guideline series: aspirin and other anti-platelet agents during operative coronary revascularization. (2003)

NGC - Unstable angina pectoris. (2006)

NGC - VA/DoD clinical practice guideline for management of ischemic heart disease.

SIGN - Acute coronary syndromes (2007)

SIGN - Cardiac arrhythmias in coronary heart disease (2007)

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