Increasing evidence points to insulin resistance as a primary etiologic factor in the development of nonischemic
heart failure. What are the specific potential therapeutic approaches? Journal of the American College of Cardiology
W. Virgil Brown, MD provides up-to-date advances in CVD risk factors in patients with diabetes, and management of mixed dyslipidemia for reducing CVD risk. Medscape Cardiology
Surgeons say the bleak six-month survival rate of 55% in the preapproval PARTNER EU data set reflects the learning-curve period. Refinements to the technology, growing expertise, and better patient selection are captured in the later SOURCE data set and those of single European centers, where 30-day survival approaches 90%. Heartwire
Patients who take more than 20 mg/day of simvastatin in addition to amiodarone are at increased risk for rhabdomyolysis, the Food and Drug Administration has reminded physicians in the US. Medscape Medical News
Late cognitive decline is not related to previous cardiopulmonary bypass in CAD patients, Senator Edward Kennedy has a malignant glioma, moderate alcohol use associated with lower hip-fracture risk, coffee drinkers have lower risk for gout, and alph1-antitrypsin deficiency greatly increases risk for lung cancer. Medscape Medical News
