By Larry Husten A large new observational study demonstrates that people who don’t take their antihypertensive medications are much more likely to have a stroke. The new study, published in the European Heart Journal, used nationwide prescription, hospital and mortality records from 73,527 hypertensive patients in Finland. …read more
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Responding to recent episodes of scientific misconduct in cardiovascular research involving once prominent cardiovascular researchers, the editor of the European Heart Journal, Thomas Lüscher, has written an editorial discussing the significance of the new cases and placing them in a historical context that includes allegations of scientific misconduct by Mendel and Darwin, among many others. …read more
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The risk of developing heart failure tripes for people who suffer from insomnia. The finding came from a new study, the largest yet to examine the association, and was published in the European Heart Journal. Previous research suggested that insomniacs have a moderately higher risk of having a heart attack (27 to 45% greater) than people who rarely have problems sleeping… …read more
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Heart attack survivors who are then exposed to air pollution could be at an increased risk of death, reveals a study published in the European Heart Journal. The study is the largest of its kind to find an association between exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) and heightened risk of patient survival following hospital admission due to myocardial infarction… …read more
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By Larry Husten, Contributor The editors of the European Heart Journal have retracted the 2009 paper reporting the main results of the Kyoto Heart Study, a randomized, open-labeled study testing the add-on effect of valsartan to conventional therapy in high-risk hypertension. The retraction notice gave no details about the problems that led to the retraction. Here is the full text of the retraction notice: “This article has been retracted by the journal. Critical problems existed with some of the data reported in the above paper. The editors of the European Heart Journal hereby retract this paper and discourage citations of it.”
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