Reducing Cardiovascular Disease-An Alternative Approach.

Purpose: Statin drugs are effective at reducing cardiovascular events, but adherence to statin therapy remains a problem for patients and their physicians. We review a paper estimating the economic costs of poor adherence to statin drugs.

Methods: The authors examined two large databases (Medicare and Market Scan databases) including 230,000 patients with hospitalization for myocardial infarction between 2018 and 2019 to determine how many patients were not adhering to guideline-recommended anti-hyperlipidemic medications.

Atypical de Winter Presentation of Critical Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Occlusion.

A 69-year-old male presented with substernal chest pain that started a few hours earlier. On arrival, the patient was hemodynamically stable, and the physical examination was unrevealing. Laboratory workup revealed an elevated high-sensitivity troponin, and an initial electrocardiogram (ECG) revealed tall, symmetric T-waves with preceding minor concave ST-segment elevations less than 1 mm in the precordial leads (V1-V6) and 0.

Myocardial Infarction With Non-obstructive Coronary Arteries: An Updated Overview of Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management.

Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) refers to acute myocardial infarction with normal or near-normal coronary arteries. The MINOCA is a heterogeneous group of conditions, and possible etiologies are coronary artery spasm, spontaneous coronary artery dissection, coronary thromboembolism, coronary plaque disruption, coronary microvascular dysfunction, supply and demand mismatch. It is more common in young adults, with women having a higher chance of getting MINOCA than men.

Correction: Charge transport mechanisms in sol-gel grown LaPbMnO/LaAlO manganite films.

Correction for 'Charge transport mechanisms in sol-gel grown LaPbMnO/LaAlO manganite films' by Eesh Vaghela et al., Phys. Chem.

Charge transport mechanisms in sol-gel grown LaPbMnO/LaAlO manganite films.

In this communication, structural, microstructural, transport and magnetotransport properties are reported for LaPbMnO/LaAlO (LPMO/LAO) manganite films having different thicknesses. All the films were irradiated with 200 MeV Ag swift heavy ions (SHI). Films were grown using the sol-gel method by employing the acetate precursor route.

Transport properties and electroresistance of a manganite based heterostructure: role of the manganite-manganite interface.

In this paper, we report the results of the investigations on the transport properties performed across the manganite-manganite interface in the LaMnO3-δ/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/LaAlO3 (LMO/LCMO/LAO) heterostructure.