A study shows increased risk for cardiovascular-related death in black patients with diagnosed and treated open-angle glaucoma as well as similar risks in these patients with ocular hypertension. Medscape Medical News
A meta-analysis shows that sulfonylureas and metformin increase the risk for cardiovascular hospitalization or mortality but not the risk for cardiovascular death or all-cause mortality alone. Medscape Medical News
Adoption by Los Angeles of a protocol for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest that calls for at least 20 minutes of chest compressions and other measures before efforts to transport boosted in-the-field rates of restored spontaneous circulation by 70%. Heartwire
The novel stent platform, which elutes a sirolimus analog from a biodegradable platform, was noninferior to the sirolimus-eluting stent in terms of the primary end point of cardiac death, MI, and target-vessel revascularization. Heartwire
Patients with ACS receiving drug-eluting stent (DES) or bare-metal stent (BMS) were analyzed in this retrospective cohort study in Veterans Health Administration hospitals from 2003 to 2004. American Heart Journal
Patients with hypertension who monitored their blood pressure from home and received Web-based pharmacist care showed greater improvement in blood pressure control than patients who had usual care. Medscape Medical News
