Tag: mortality
Death rates after CABG and other surgeries “similar” regardless of patient-surgeon gender concordance
Death rates after major surgery are similar regardless of whether a male or female surgeon operates ...
Machine learning model provides improved cardiac risk predictions compared to “gold-standard” STS scoring
A machine learning-based model which uses electronic health record (EHR) data to predict a cardi...
Roxana Mehran on managing ischaemic benefit vs. bleeding harm in HBR patients (A three-part series)
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A higher volume of mitral valve repair procedures is associated with lower mortality rates
US national hospital- and surgeon-level inverse volume–outcome associations were observed for 30...
Meta-analysis finds a higher risk of death in the long term when paclitaxel-coated devices are used in the leg
New data, just published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), suggest that t...
Heart failure patient and clinician risk perceptions differ drastically
Physicians identified a majority of patients with advanced heart failure as at high risk for transpl...
Obamacare health insurance expansion linked to fewer cardiac arrests
A sudden catastrophic loss of heart function, or cardiac arrest, occurred significantly less among a...
ACC 2017: More hospitalisations & deaths for US heart failure patients in winter
Patients with heart failure in the USA are more likely to be hospitalised and more likely to die dur...
Intensive blood pressure control could prevent 100,000 deaths each year
Researchers have projected that aggressively lowering blood pressure could help prevent more than 10...
Mediterranean diet linked to lower mortality in patients with a history of cardiovascular disease
The Mediterranean diet has been associated with a reduced risk of death in patients with a histo...
