DREAM-HF provides hints of an anti-inflammatory effect and benefits beyond the heart, setting up future trials.
Drinking coffee was tied to less supraventricular tachycardia, more premature ventricular contractions, and less sleep, but more...
Prospective studies are needed and mechanisms unclear, but the findings raise hopes for off-target benefits, says J. Emanuel Finet.
Whether the benefit-risk balance is favorable depends on many factors, but it will be so “in very many cases,” the researcher says.
The same social determinants of health that increase MI risk are there to greet patients when they return home, one expert notes.
In a large observational study, people already on statins before being admitted with COVID-19 had lower in-hospital mortality.
The findings support a role for OCT on top of CMR, already urged by guidelines. How outcomes might change remains unclear.
The small series will fuel the contentious debate over the lasting cardiac effects, but everyone agrees: more data are needed.
The most recent NHANES data show a “very bad” control rate of around 44%, about a 10% fall from the peak a few years earlier.
In a population under age 35, 20% required ICU care, 10% were put on ventilators, and approximately 3% died.