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Journal Scan: Short Sleep Duration and Incident Coronary Artery Calcification (JAMA 2008;300:2859-28
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Data from subjects enrolled in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) cohort were used for this study. Sleep characteristics were measured through self report and wrist actigraphy. Coronary artery calcification was measured at two time points, study year 15 (2000-2001) and stu. . .
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EDITORIAL: Medical Imaging in the 21st Century â Getting the Best Bang for the Rad
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/362/10/943?rss=1&a...
In the United States, the average radiation dose to which we are exposed has doubled in the past 30 years.12 The average dose from natural background sources has not changed,...
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Low Diagnostic Yield of Elective Coronary Angiography
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/362/10/886?rss=1&a...
Background: Guidelines for triaging patients for cardiac catheterization recommend a risk assessment and noninvasive testing. We determined patterns of noninvasive testing and the diagnostic yield of catheterization among patients with...
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EDITORIAL: Medical Imaging in the 21st Century â Getting the Best Bang for the Rad
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/362/10/943?rss=1&a...
In the United States, the average radiation dose to which we are exposed has doubled in the past 30 years.12 The average dose from natural background sources has not changed,...
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Use of the Thyroid Hormone Analogue Eprotirome in Statin-Treated Dyslipidemia
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Background: Dyslipidemia increases the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and is incompletely reversed by statin therapy alone in many patients. Thyroid hormone lowers levels of serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol...
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Low Diagnostic Yield of Elective Coronary Angiography
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/362/10/886?rss=1&a...
Background: Guidelines for triaging patients for cardiac catheterization recommend a risk assessment and noninvasive testing. We determined patterns of noninvasive testing and the diagnostic yield of catheterization among patients with...
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Commotio Cordis
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/362/10/917?rss=1&a...
Ventricular fibrillation and sudden death triggered by a blunt, nonpenetrating, and often innocent-appearing unintentional blow to the chest without damage to the ribs, sternum, or heart (and in the absence...
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Safety and effectiveness of the INVATEC MO.MA® proximal cerebral protection device during carotid ar
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fccd.22439
Objective: The multicenter ARMOUR (ProximAl PRotection with the MO.MA Device DUring CaRotid Stenting) trial evaluated the 30-day safety and effectiveness of the MO.MA® Proximal Cerebral Protection Device (Invatec, Roncadelle, Italy) utilized to treat high surgical risk patients undergoing carotid artery stenting (CAS). Background: Distal embolic protection...
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Journal Scan: Metformin: Safety in Cardiac Patients (Heart 2010;96:99-102.)
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Journal Scan: Endovascular Stenting for Vertebral Artery Stenosis (J Am Coll Cardiol 2010;55:538-542
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One-hundred five patients from 1995-2006 with symptomatic VAS (112 arteries, 71% male) underwent stent placement for extracranial (91%) and intracranial (9%), primarily in the V1 segment (83%). By angiography, 57 patients (54%) had bilateral VAS, 71 patients (68%) had concomitant carotid disease, an. . .
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