The European Medicines Evaluation Agency announced on Friday a review of the calcium channel blocker felodipine because of concerns about the original studies used to

The risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with type II diabetes may be some 30% higher than that indicated by the Framingham model, according to

Long-term treatment with the ACE inhibitor lisinopril improves myocardial perfusion reserve (MPR) and maximal coronary flow in patients with hypertension-induced left ventricular hypertrophy. However, this

Reducing patient dietary sodium intake has little effect or either cardiovascular events or mortality. There also are doubts about effects of salt reduction on overall

Waist circumference is a better indicator of cardiovascular (CV) riskthan is body mass index (BMI), according to results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination

For patients older than 80 years of age, off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery is associated with reduced operative mortality, stroke and the need for transfusion,

Patients with end-stage heart failure benefit from resynchronization therapy with improved symptoms, quality-of-life, exercise endurance and left ventricular ejection fraction, Dutch researchers report.  “Even in

Laurie Barclay, MD Sept. 16, 2002 — Nocturnal blood pressure may be the best early indicator of subsequent vascular complications and renal disease in diabetes,

Laurie Barclay, MD Sept. 18, 2002 — Editor’s Note: New guidelines for diet and exercise issued earlier this month by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Losartan significantly reduces the risk of stroke in hypertensive patients with atrial fibrillation and left ventricular hypertrophy compared to atenolol, a study presented here at

Primary angioplasty is not more effective than prehospital thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction (MI), according to the results of a randomized trial reported in

Adding other antihypertensive drugs may lower the risk of heart failure in high risk patients receiving doxazosin therapy for hypertension.  As previously reported from the

Patients with heart failure achieve better aerobic tolerance after 12 weeks on low-dose lisinopril than on a higher dose of the ACE inhibitor, according to

Little difference in treatment outcome for myocardial infarction between prehospital fibrinolysis or emergency angioplasty has been found in a multicentre trial by French clinicians. Although

A diet that includes cereal high in processed wheat fiber does not improve markers of glycemic control or risk factors for coronary heart disease in

Boston Scientific Corp. said on Thursday that US regulators have approved its new Express2 coronary stent system. Natick, Massachusetts-based Boston Scientific said the new product

The optimum upper heart rate limit for pacemaker patients during exercise is 14% to 25% lower than normal age-predicted values, according to new study findings

בסקירה בעתון הארץ מובאים מס’ נתונים על התרופה המוכרת והותיקה. פרופ’ יוני ליאור הביע תמיהה על הבחירה דווקא בתכשיר זה, כאשר קיימים חומרים מסוכנים יותר.

The atherogenic effects of smoking appear to be at least partially mediated by chronic infections, according to results of a prospective population-based survey in Italy

In patients presenting with unstable coronary artery disease, early intervention significantly reduces the incidence of subsequent refractory or severe angina and so is preferable to