2009

October

• Web-based nutrition program reduces health care costs for employees with cardiac risk factors -

• Heart Attacks Become More Common But Less Often Fatal in Women -

• New research suggests how low doses of radiation can cause heart disease and stroke -

• Blood thinner may cause problems after an injury -

• US report confirms smoking bans cut heart attacks -

• Fish may not protect against heart failure -

• Surgeons Find That Statin Drugs Lower Costs in Aortic Aneurysm Repair -

• New mathematical model more accurately diagnoses acute heart failure in emergency rooms -

• No evidence B vitamins protect the heart -

• Race & Ethnic Demographics Not Reported in Over 50% of Randomized Clinical Trials for Cardiovascular -

• New Surgical Technique Restores Cardiac Valve in Patients with Barlow’s Disease -

• Elizabeth Taylor says heart surgery was successful -

• Heart disease: B-vitamin pills have no effect -

• Americans concerned about heart health, but not proactive enough to prevent it -

• Prenatal Exposure to Flu Pandemic Increased Chances of Heart Disease -

September

• Calcium Scans May be Effective Screening Tool for Heart Disease -

• Study details safe, effective, minimally invasive mitral valve repair -

• Hospitalizations for Heart Disease, Heart Attack and Stroke Down Significantly -

• Comprehensive cardiac CT scan may give clearer picture of significant heart disease -

• Implantable Defibrillators May Not Benefit Women With Heart Failure -

• New Insights Into Cardiac Aging -

• EuroHeart 2009 -

• Lead in bone associated with increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease in men -

• Newest Taser Research Finds No Adverse Cardiac Effects -

• Cardiac biomarker levels strongly predict outcome of bypass surgery -

• Large thighs protect against heart disease and early death -

• New Hope for Heart Failure Patients -

• New hope for heart failure patients -

• The benefits of reperfusion therapy -

• Pre-hospital organization: The first links in the chain of survival for heart attack patients -

August

• Secondhand smoke worsens heart attacks’ effects -

• New sensitive markers to detect myocardial infarction -

• Can we change society? -

• Ongoing challenges for cardiovascular prevention in Europe -

• Infective endocarditis: An old but changing disease -

• First European guidelines for reducing the cardiac risks in noncardiac surgery -

• Results from the PRAGUE-7 study -

• New tests pinpoint heart attacks faster -

• Vitamin takers less likely felled by heart disease -

• Risk of Death Following Acute Coronary Syndromes Different For Men, Women -

• Women Slightly More Likely to Die than Men in the 30 Days Following a Heart Attack -

• Why “thick” blood protects from a heart attack -

• Little known type of cholesterol may pose the greatest heart disease risk -

• Abnormal heart rhythm more common in white elders -

• Optimism may do women’s hearts good -

• Cooling treatment after cardiac arrest is cost-effective, Penn study shows -

July

• Gene testing doesn’t help predict heart disease -

• High calcium level in arteries may signal serious heart attack risk -

• One type of heart attack on decline in US -

• Patient Has Speedy Recovery from New Heart Valve Procedure -

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