A 94-year-old female with history of hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and hyperlipidemia presents to the emergency ...

Background: Cardiovascular disease caused by atherosclerosis is responsible for 18 million deaths annually, highlighting a significant need for new medical therapies, especially for patients who are ...

We designed this study to explore to what extent the excess risk of cardiovascular events in diabetic individuals is attributable to hypertension. We retrospectively analyzed prospectively collected ...

The American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular risk ...

Dysphagia is a common stroke symptom and leads to serious complications such as aspiration and pneumonia. Early dysphagia screening can reduce these complications. In many hospitals, dysphagia ...

An 85-year-old man with a history of ischemic heart disease and a single-chamber pacemaker implanted 6 months earlier because of atrial fibrillation with slow ventricular response was admitted to the ...

Introduction: Contemporary trends in clinical outcomes and resource utilization in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) undergoing thrombolytic therapy are not well-known. Research Question: We ...

Epidemiology is at a critical juncture. In 1996, Frederick H. Epstein, MD, FRCP, posthumously shared that cardiovascular epidemiology should result in a “deepened understanding of the forces that ...

ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart ...

The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health, annually reports on the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular risk ...

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request and IRB approval. Records were reviewed for all aSAH patients treated at Barrow ...

Dysphagia is common after stroke and associated with a poor outcome. Swallowing therapies for dysphagia are aimed at accelerating recovery of swallowing. This is an update of a 2012 Cochrane review ...