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Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Outcomes

Cardiology Clinical medicine Definition and Pathophysiology Dietary patterns are the overall combinations of foods habitually consumed rather than isolated nutrients considered independently. For cardiometabolic health…

Exercise stress test on cycle ergometer

…whereas isolated ST depression in a woman with a low pre test probability is usually a false positive. Indications Evaluation of chest pain with an…

Atropine: Dosing in Bradycardia and Its Limitations

…level, producing atrioventricular (AV) or intraventricular blocks. Isolated sinus bradycardia in the early hours following infarction may be associated with hemodynamic compromise. More broadly, bradyarrhythmic…

Blood pressure

…and/or 100–109 Grade 3 hypertension ≥ 180 and/or ≥ 110 Isolated systolic hypertension ≥ 140 and < 90 Thresholds for different measurement methods Measurement technique…

Hypertensive crisis: drugs and doses

…organ damage. Isolated malignant retinopathy without other acute organ damage can often be treated more cautiously with oral drugs under careful observation [3,4]. A…

Liver parameters

…An isolated raised ALP — check the GGT. A normal GGT shifts the suspicion to bone, pregnancy or malignancy. A markedly raised GGT with the other…

Blood Pressure Targets in Older and Frail Adults

…dynamic and may improve or worsen with illness, treatment, or other interventions. Frailty commonly overlaps with multimorbidity and is frequent in patients with cardiovascular disease…

Hypertensive Emergency and Urgency: Differentiation and Treatment

…The European definition uses BP ≥180/110 mmHg with acute HMOD, although other guidance emphasizes that no single BP threshold is diagnostically sufficient: the presence…

Peripheral Artery Disease: Diagnosis, Ankle–Brachial Index and Risk Management

…manifestation of systemic arterial disease rather than an isolated disorder of the lower limbs. Patients frequently have concomitant coronary, cerebrovascular or other peripheral arterial disease…

Posterior Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis on the Standard ECG

…Posterior involvement is commonly associated with inferior or lateral myocardial infarction. Consequently, posterior infarction should not be regarded as an isolated electrocardiographic pattern in every…

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