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Introduction to the Hypertension Curriculum
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Drs. Thomas Giles, Suzanne Oparil, and Henry Black announce a new educational alliance with the American Society of Hypertension to improve prevention, detection, and management of hypertension.
American Society of Hypertension
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Off-Site PCI Comparable to PCI With On-Site Backup
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The largest-ever clinical analysis and comparison of PCI centers with and without surgical backup in the US has shown that PCI facilities without on-site surgery have similar outcomes to centers with traditional backup. Heartwire
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Some MOMENTUM for Continuous Aortic Flow Therapy in Heart Failure
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Chronic heart-failure patients with nonischemic etiology and without kidney dysfunction or severe N-terminal pro-brain-natriuretic peptide expression appear to benefit from the device. The data are hypothesis generating at this point, say investigators, and decisions will need to be made about where to go next with the aortic flow therapy. Heartwire
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Assessing Health Literacy in Clinical Practice
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Clinicians routinely underestimate the prevalence of limited health literacy among their patients and frequently overestimate the ability of individual patients to understand the information they provide. Medscape Nurses
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