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Cardiovascular Risk in Women: Sex-Specific Factors

…conventional risk factors have sex dependent effects: Blood pressure rises more steeply in women from young adulthood, resulting in a greater lifetime burden of hypertension…

ACE Inhibitor Cough and Angioedema: Practical Management

…reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), and post myocardial infarction (MI) care. Despite their proven morbidity and mortality benefits, their use is limited by specific adverse effects…

Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Management

…is mediated by the combined effects of hyperglycaemia, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obesity, smoking and other conventional risk factors, together with diabetes specific vascular and metabolic abnormalities…

Adenosine: Administration Technique, Dose Escalation and Precautions

…these direct effects, adenosine antagonizes catecholamine stimulated adenylate cyclase. This inhibition decreases the accumulation of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), which in turn reduces the L…

Fractional Flow Reserve and Non-Hyperaemic Pressure Ratios

…in the context of the clinical presentation and other findings. A reduced CFR may occur with angiographically insignificant epicardial disease because of abnormalities in the…

Soft tissue corticosteroid injection

…treatment — modification of loading, eccentric exercise, an NSAID, an orthosis — has not given a sufficient effect. Contraindications Absolute: Cellulitis, a skin wound or other infection…

Interpreting NT-proBNP and BNP in Clinical Decision-Making

…patients with impaired renal function, reflecting both reduced clearance and the high prevalence of structural heart disease in this population. Obesity is associated with lower…

Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: Diagnosis, Cascade Screening and Treatment

…of premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), particularly coronary artery disease (CAD). FH results from pathogenic variants affecting proteins in the hepatic LDL receptor pathway. Reduced…

Edrophonium test

…gaze palsy — that can be assessed before and during the window of effect. The muscarinic effect may at the same time produce marked bradycardia and…

Atropine: Dosing in Bradycardia and Its Limitations

…digitalis excess. Biomarkers and Laboratory Findings The source material does not provide information on biomarkers or laboratory findings specific to the evaluation of bradycardia. Treatment…

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