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Health News You Can Use: Heart Failure and CardioMems
During Heart Month, we are talking about the risks of undiagnosed heart failure and treatment options for those with heart failure.
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TCTMD: Study IDs Patients Most Likely to Quit Smoking After ASCVD Event
TCTMD talked to Dr. Vittal Hejjaji about a large registry study that looked at when patients quit smoking following an atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease event.
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Health News You Can Use: New Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines
During Heart Month, we are talking about atrial fibrillation, the recent changes in guidelines, and how Saint Luke’s is leading the way in innovative treatments for those who have a-fib.
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FDA Approves PulseSelect Pulsed Field Ablation System, a Novel Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute was the first in Kansas and Missouri, and one of only 27 US institutions, to participate in PULSED AF clinical trial.
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AHA Names Top Advances in Cardiovascular Disease Research for 2023
The groundbreaking STEP-HFpEF study, led by Mikhail Kosiborod, MD, vice president of research at Saint Luke's Health System, has been named one of the top advances by the American Heart Association.
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Cardiovascular Business: TAVR Linked to Favorable Outcomes for Asymptomatic and Minimally Symptomatic Patients—But is it Necessary?
TAVR in asymptomatic and minimally symptomatic patients is associated with a high survival rate, but relatively minor improvements, according to new research.
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CBS Evening News: Study Shows Wegovy May Reduce Risk of Heart Failure
The study shows that the diabetes and weight loss drug semaglutide significantly reduced symptoms and improved quality of life in people with obesity and the most common form of heart failure in a clinical trial.
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Good Morning America: New Study Highlights Benefits to Weight Loss Drugs
Semaglutide, the active ingredient on weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, shows evidence that the drug may also help reduce the risks of heart disease.
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CNN: Weight-Loss Drug Wegovy Produces ‘Largest Benefit Ever Seen’ for Patients with Most Common Form of Heart Failure, Trial Finds
The diabetes and weight loss drug semaglutide significantly reduced symptoms and improved quality of life in people with obesity and the most common form of heart failure in a clinical trial.
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Physician's Weekly: Survival Lower for Asian Versus White Individuals With OHCA
Asian individuals with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have similar rates of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation as White individuals, but have lower survival rates, according to a new study.