A meta-analysis shows that women have a 20% higher prevalence of stable angina than men, although men have a higher rate of myocardial infarction. Medscape Medical News
Patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted to the hospital on weeknights, holidays, or weekends had percutaneous coronary intervention less often but had no increase in in-hospital mortality. Medscape Medical News
In a randomized study, a modest reduction in blood pressure was observed in a patient population with largely normal blood pressure and occurred in patients taking relatively low doses of statins. Medscape Medical News
A new study suggests that depression could be preventing some patients with heart disease from quitting smoking and that an antidepressant might be effective for these patients. Medscape Medical News
In the largest study to examine the link between exercise capacity and mortality risk in a racially mixed cohort, mortality dropped 12% to 15% with every 1 metabolic equivalent in exercise capacity. Medscape Medical News
Another study has found that that low levels of low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels seem to be linked to an increased risk for death, this time in a nationally representative cohort. Medscape Medical News
