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Statin use associated with reduced lung cancer mortality

05.05.20151688

Lung cancer patients who used statins in the year before being diagnosed with lung cancer had a 12% reduction in lung cancer-specific deaths (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.89; 95% confidence interval, 0.78-1.02; P = .09), researchers reported in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Prognostic value of non-specific ST-T changes and left ventricular hypertrohpy electrocardiographic criteria in hypertensive patients: 16-year follow-up results from the MINACOR cohort

30.04.20151457

Non-specific electrocardiographic ST-T wave changes and voltage criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) have been associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

Beta-blockers during acute stroke phase reduce mortality, pneumonia risk

29.04.20151706

Patients who initiated beta-blocker therapy within 3 days of stroke onset had a lower risk for mortality at 3 months, according to recent results.

Statins and congenital malformations: cohort study

28.04.20151659

Когортное исследование 886996 завершенных живорождением беременностей у женщин, включенных в Medicaid в период с 2000 по 2007 гг.

Cardiovascular risks correlate with increasing levels of steatohepatitis, cirrhosis

27.04.20151522

Cardiovascular risks increased with rising severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and cirrhosis, according to a study presented at the 2015 International Liver Congress.

ESC: UPCOMING WEBINARS

27.04.20152073

European Society of Cardiology offers webinars on the following topics.

Pocket guidelines on hypertension

27.04.20152315

We are presenting pocket guidelines on hypertension edited by the President of the Antihypertensive League Professor Sergey Nedogoda and Professor Alexandra Konradi.