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Is Prehypertension Real, and What Can We Do About It?
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In his video commentary Dr Black discusses how and why 20-year follow-up results from CARDIA should motivate clinicians to get serious about recognizing "prehypertension" in their younger patients.
Medscape Cardiology
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Trouble in Trialville: Plans for Post-DES Clopidogrel Trial Get Bogged Down Over Trial Design, Leade
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Duke researchers designed the CODA trial to determine optimal clopidogrel duration post-DES but also to "evolve the regulatory landscape" for dealing with complicated device-drug regulatory approvals. But researchers, government agencies, and industry sponsors cannot necessarily agree on the trial design. Meanwhile, MATRIX registry results reinforce the urgent need for randomized clinical trial data. Heartwire
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TRENDS: Defining a Threshold for Stroke Risk in Device-Detected AF
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Preliminary results of a study that analyzed data on AT/AF generated from implantable cardiac devices suggests that patients with 5.5 hours or more of AT/AF on any given day in the past 30 days had a more than 2-fold increased risk for stroke vs those with no episodes, independent of other stroke risk factors. Medscape Medical News
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