High BP Sitting vs Lying Down; Baby Aspirin Holdouts; LAA Closure With Hemodialysis?

Based on an ARIC cohort analysis, supine hypertension may be more predictive of cardiovascular events than seated hypertension. (JAMA Cardiology)

Blood pressure (BP) readings in public, noisy environments were still fairly accurate. (Annals of Internal Medicine)

One lot of Provepharm’s phenylephrine hydrochloride is under voluntary recall by the manufacturer due to “visible black particulate matter,” according to an FDA alert.

Racial minorities and people on Medicaid were still taking baby aspirin in 2021-2023 despite guideline warnings. (JAMA)

For patients with stable chest pain, management guided by coronary CT angiography was still associated with a sustained reduction in coronary heart disease death or myocardial infarction 10 years into the SCOT-HEART trial. (TheLancet)

Taken from the same blood sample, high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I had a slightly higher diagnostic accuracy for heart attacks, while high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T had higher prognostic accuracy for all-cause and cardiovascular death. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)

Left atrial appendage (LAA) closure appeared promising for people with atrial fibrillation on hemodialysis, based on an international registry. (JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology)

Imperative Care announced FDA 510(k) clearance of the Zoom stroke thrombectomy system, including its large-bore .088″ catheter.

It’s not just cigarettes: Users of cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco displayed subclinical markers of inflammation and atherosclerosis in a cross-sectional study. (Circulation)

Central adiposity, or a high waist-to-height ratio, was prevalent in almost every patient with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in the PARAGON-HF trial. (European Heart Journal)

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs Risk Model was unveiled as a tool to predict 90-day mortality risk from durable left ventricular assist device implantation. (Annals of Thoracic Surgery)

Modeling showed the best performing clinical decision rule regarding when to terminate resuscitation efforts for in-hospital cardiac arrest: when the patient had an unwitnessed, unmonitored cardiac arrest, an initial rhythm of asystole, and resuscitation duration of at least 10 minutes. (JAMA Internal Medicine)

Traditional risk factors were unable to predict exercise-related sudden cardiac death in those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. (Heart)

And in young people who died from sudden cardiac death due to coronary artery disease, there was no evidence that screening for carotid or aortic plaque would have flagged the event. (European Journal of Preventive Cardiology)

Among toddlers with congenital heart disease, those who received cardiac inpatient neurodevelopmental interventions wound up having reduced delirium and higher cognitive scores, one hospital found. (JAMA Network Open)

The anti-PCKS9 adnectin drug lerodalcibep failed to meet noninferiority criteria against evolocumab (Repatha) for reducing LDL cholesterol in a homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia population. (Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)

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