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Additional benefits seen for patients with heart failure include higher rates of clinician home visits, more days spent at home

At 48 hours, mortality was 23.7 percent for those medically treated versus 4.4 percent for those surgically treated

Additionally, decreases in satisfaction with work-life integration and increases in depression seen

Quality improvement effort tied to decrease in major bleeding without increase in thrombotic events

Link remained significant in multivariable Mendelian randomization analyses adjusting for genetically predicted alcohol consumption

MI outcomes poorer in Medicare beneficiaries with versus without rheumatic immune-mediated inflammatory disease

Risk factors for medical indebtedness include hospitalization, disability, high deductible, Medicare Advantage, and no insurance coverage

Diet more strongly linked to CVD risk in women; high non-HDL cholesterol, depression symptoms more strongly linked in men

However, with increasing age, risk for type 1 myocardial infarction increased for people with HIV with versus without hepatitis C virus infection

Two strong recommendations developed against use of heparin bridging in a-fib, and for continuation of VKA in patients getting pacemaker/ICD