Cardiology Update

Australian and international cardiology news

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Sorry this was actually Professor Christopher Reid #CSANZ17 https://t.co/wZwYbl68Z5

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Prof John McNeil: if you are doing a primary prevention study in the elderly the best place to go is general practice. #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Sorry this was actually Professor Christopher Reid #CSANZ17 https://t.co/99TWFGXAE1

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Prof Clara Chow talking on her amazing quad pill study where 0.25 doses of 4 different antihypertensives lowered BP by 22/13 mmHg #CSANZ17

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Dr Nicole Lowres: asymptomatic AF is not a benign condition #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Prof John McNeil: if you are doing a primary prevention study in the elderly the best place to go is general practice. #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Prof Murray Esler has been telling us how the sympathetic nervous system is toxic in lean hypertension. #CSANX #ISHR #ACVA @Bayer

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Prof Murray Esler has been telling us how the sympathetic nervous system is toxic in lean hypertension. #CSANX #ISHR #ACVA @Bayer

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Joke comment of the conference? "Sleep apnoea doesn't happen overnight" #CSANZ17 #ISHR #ACVA @Bayer

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Dr James Sapontis: One in ten patients taken to the cath lab will have a chronic total occlusion.#CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Carol Pollock, nephrologist, is saying, like the elderly, people with CKD tend to be treated too conservatively for ACS #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Prof Freek Verheugt on the elderly ACS patient: Trials have shown it is safe to do invasive therapies in the elderly. #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Wow! Three top quality clinical Ralph Reader prize finalist talks. How will the judges choose between them? #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Prof Bob Graham on spontaneous coronary artery dissection. A genetic component and links with migraine and fibromuscular dysplasia #CSANZ17

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Prof Bob Graham - read us the first report of SCAD by a GP in 1930 who did a PM on patient. 2000 case studies since then. #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Professor Derek Chew is wondering whether splitting MI into type 1 or type 2 is helpful #CSANZ @Bayer

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Dr Richard Alcock: At the moment in the perioperative setting we have nothing that will attenuate the risk of perioperative MI #CSANZ17

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Dr Anushka Patel says one way a polypill may be formulated is just 3 generics in a big capsule. #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Prof Stephen Nicholls says PCSK9 inhibitors can give LDL cholesterol levels "lower than we have ever seen before". #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Prof Doug McEvoy says his trial found CPAP failed to reduce CVD events in patients with CVD and sleep apnoea. #CSANZ17 @Bayer

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Jackie Bosch on HOPE 3: except for the patients with the highest BPs, the benefits were from the statin. #CSANZ17 @Bayer