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“Holiday Heart Syndrome” is no different from “weekend” or “celebratory” heart when the culprit is alcohol.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 17, 2024 Source:What is ‘holiday heart’ and how can you avoid it this Christmas season?
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Diet drinks may boost risk of dangerous heart condition by 20%, study says. Can we please stop the reporting of food-questionnaire-extrapolate-the-data-towards-meaningless-non-causal-relationships stories that have zero impact on clinical practice?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 8, 2024 Source:Diet drinks may boost risk of dangerous heart condition by 20 per cent, study says Reference:Sweetened Beverages, Genetic Susceptibility, and Incident Atrial Fibrillation: A Prospective Cohort Study
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Study concludes that cryoablation treatment of Atrial Fibrillation was “associated with a lower incidence of persistent atrial fibrillation or recurrent atrial tachyarrhythmia over 3 years of follow-up than initial use of antiarrhythmic drugs.”
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 6, 2023 Source:Atrial fibrillation (A-fib): Ablation surgery may be more effective than drugs Reference:Progression of Atrial Fibrillation after Cryoablation or Drug Therapy
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Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) presented new data, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing that catheter ablation may be better than antiarrhythmic drugs at halting disease progression.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 8, 2022 Source:National study suggests it’s time to rethink how we treat atrial fibrillation Reference:Progression of Atrial Fibrillation after Cryoablation or Drug Therapy
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Sunday House Call, #790, May 16, 2021: A different clot than is in the news but no less than a novel treatment that can help thousands.
Topics today include: An NEJM published study looked at excision of the left atrial appendage to reduce the risk of stroke in anticoagulated individuals. It did meet its end points with an absolute risk reduction of 2.2 per cent decreasing from 7.0 (control) to 4.8 percent over 3.8 year average for people of average age…
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Biological mechanisms remain hypothetical to explain why observational study finds brushing your teeth three times a day reduces your risk of atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December , 2019 Source:Brushing your teeth frequently may help prevent heart attacks: study Reference:Improved oral hygiene care is associated with decreased risk of occurrence for atrial fibrillation and heart failure: A nationwide population-based cohort study
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Wednesday House Call, May 23, 2018
Wednesday House Call, May 23, 2018 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Your calls about: Hypothyroidism, it symptoms and how these can be confused with medication use Approach to a woman with 9 months of gastroesophageal reflux disease and medication failure. What next steps are required?…
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Apple watch heartbeat monitor not even close to being able to accurately identify atrial fibrillation
Health Headlines Commentary for March 26, 2018 Source: Apple Watch could soon detect an irregular heartbeat Reference: Passive Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Using a Commercially Available Smartwatch
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Sunday House Call, #632, October 15, 2017: Childhood obesity rates increasing? Pshaw, keep your dirty sugar tax away from my liquid candy!
Sunday House Call, #631, October 15, 2017: Childhood obesity rates increasing? Pshaw, keep your dirty sugar tax away from my liquid candy! Topics today include: Childhood obesity rates are dramatically increasing yet we still won’t take even a baby step to influence reduced consumption. Granted more than s sugar tax is needed such as massive…