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Cardiology Pharmaceuticals February 6, 2025
Evolocumab: Sooner or Later? February 6, 2025
Sooner certainly seems to be better than later when it comes to treating LDL-C levels with the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab (Amgen’s Repatha), and according to a recent JACC study, that’s especially true for older patients. Putting age before beauty, researchers conducted a prespecified analysis of the FOURIER-OLE study and found that among roughly 6.6k patients, […]
Cardiovascular Disease February 3, 2025
Cardiovascular Disease and Deaths On the Rise February 3, 2025
Another year, another AHA report reasserting heart disease’s dominance as the number one killer in the United States, and the latest data shows that this trend is still gaining momentum. Four years after that goal’s due date, the burden of CVD in the U.S. is at an all time high, with 942k cardiovascular disease-related deaths […]
Structural Heart January 30, 2025
Why Mechanical AVR Valves Still Matter January 30, 2025
A presentation at this year’s Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) conference suggests mechanical valves might lead to better survival compared to bioprosthetic valves in patients aged 60 or younger undergoing SAVR even though it seems like they’re going out of style. Researchers examined STS registry data on ~109k patients ages 40 to 75 years who […]
