Jason Harris

Black patients had a 43% greater risk for amputation compared with whites.

Both ticagrelor and clopidogrel appear to have the same effect on patients with peripheral artery disease.

After 1 year, more than a third of patients had recovered enough to have their left ventricular assist devices removed.

Patients who were taking statins were more likely to survive to hospital admission, discharge, and the 1-year point.

While mortality rates were similar between percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting in both EXCEL and NOBLE trials, the risk of major cardiovascular events was higher in PCI in NOBLE.

At 1 year, primary patency was 82.3% for the drug-coated balloon group vs 70.9% for the percutaneous transluminal angioplasty group.

Subclinicial hypothyroidism has been associated with an increased risk for coronary heart disease events and mortality.

The 1-year target lesion failure was 8.3% for patients with diabetes which was significantly lower than the pre-specified goal of 12.7%.

Two imaging studies found that less invasive screening procedures reduced unnecessary angiographies in patients with coronary heart disease or suspected coronary artery disease.

A declining trend in ischemic events was associated with oral anticoagulant therapy after intracranial hemorrhage.