ROME — A pill a day prevents transmission of HIV among heterosexual men and women, a researcher said here.
ROME — A pill a day prevents transmission of HIV among heterosexual men and women, a researcher said here.
ROME — The battle against HIV and AIDS is at a “scientific watershed” and the world must now find ways to translate research into victory over the virus, the president of the International AIDS Society said at the association’s 2011 conference.
As many as five million people with peripheral artery disease (PAD) do not receive medications with known efficacy for secondary prevention, data from a large national survey suggest.
Diastolic function assessed using speckle-tracking echocardiography is predictive of all-cause mortality in patients with acute coronary syndromes, researchers found.
The trends that contributed the most to the drop in MI rates were declining non-HDL cholesterol levels (34% contributor), increasing HDL cholesterol levels (17%), falling systolic blood pressure (13%), and declining smoking prevalence (6%). Confidence intervals showed that all were significant contributors.
Patients had creatinine levels of at least 1.7 mg/dL in men or 1.5 mg/dL in women. Nonadherent participants were excluded after a 6-week, single-blind, run-in placebo course. The primary endpoint was first major atherosclerotic event. At baseline, mean total cholesterol level was 189 mg/dL, and mean LDL cholesterol level was 108 mg/dL.
Basel, Switzerland – Healthy middle-aged women who develop atrial fibrillation (AF) still have an increased risk of death compared with similar women who do not have AF, according to new results covering 15 years of follow-up from the Women’s Health Study (WHS) [1].
Leukotriene-receptor antagonists may be as effective as inhaled corticosteroids for first-line treatment of asthma and as effective as long-acting beta agonists for add-on therapy, according to two “real-world” trials reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The findings also raise the question of whether post-EVAR patients should undergo monitoring using other imaging techniques such as ultrasound, or whether a less frequent CT scan protocol can be used to reduce patient exposure to radiation and reduce patient costs.
- The first attempt to apply the concept of “cardiovascular health”—as outlined in theAmerican Heart Association’s (AHA’s) 2020 Impact Goal issued ].last year—to a cohort of middle-aged community-dwelling individuals in the US found that everyone has a very long way to go to reach this goal and that blacks in particular will find it most challenging [1