Mon, November 12 – 10 Stories of The Day!
12 Nov, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
#AHA2018 – Highlights from the AHA Scientific Sessions 2018
1 – Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 – The Lancet (8 free articles)
See also: Infographics with GBD 2017 Study Highlights – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (all free) AND Updated GBD Compare Visualization Tool – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free resource)
“All eight Global Burden of Disease 2017 papers providing 38 billion estimates of 359 diseases & injuries & 84 risk factors in 195 countries & territories” (via @TheLancet see Tweet)
2 – #AHA2018 – 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol – Circulation – A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines (free PDF)
Summary: 2018 ACC/AHA Multisociety Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol – American College of Cardiology (free)
See also: Cholesterol Guideline Hub (free resources)
3 – #AHA2018 – Use of Risk Assessment Tools to Guide Decision-Making in the Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease – A Special Report From the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology (free PDF)
Summary: Use of Risk Assessment Tools to Guide Decision-Making in ASCVD Prevention – American College of Cardiology (free)
4 – #AHA2018 – Vitamin D Supplements and Prevention of Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Editorial: VITAL Signs for Dietary Supplementation to Prevent Cancer and Heart Disease (free)
Commentaries: Vitamin D And Fish Oil Supplements Mostly Disappoint In Long-Awaited Research Results – NPR (free) AND Fish Oil And Vitamin D Pills No Guard Against Cancer Or Serious Heart Trouble – Kaiser Health News (free)
5 – #AHA2018 – Marine n−3 Fatty Acids and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Commentaries: Vitamin D, omega-3 supplements do not prevent cancer or heart disease, study says – CNN (free) AND Vitamin D and Fish Oils Are Ineffective for Preventing Cancer and Heart Disease – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related Systematic Review: Omega-3 fatty Acids for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (free review and commentaries)
6 – #AHA2018 – Amarin’s Fish-Oil-Derived Drug Shows Great Promise — With Big Caveats – Forbes (free) (via @cardiobrief)
Original Article: Cardiovascular Risk Reduction with Icosapent Ethyl for Hypertriglyceridemia – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
“what seriously bothered five of the six cardiologists I spoke to was that the mineral oil had not behaved as a placebo at all.”
7 – Effective healthcare cost-containment policies: a systematic review – Health Policy (free)
8 – Perioperative alcohol cessation intervention for postoperative complications – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: Effects of perioperative alcohol cessation interventions on postoperative complications following surgery – Cochrane Library (free)
“Intensive alcohol cessation interventions offered for four to eight weeks to participants undergoing all types of surgical procedures to achieve complete alcohol cessation before surgery probably reduced the number of postoperative complications.”
See Original Article: ESC/EACTS Guidelines on Myocardial Revascularization (free)