Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients≥ 80
years of age. Nonetheless, older patients have typically been under-represented in …

Medication adherence usually refers to whether patients take their medications as
prescribed (eg, twice daily), as well as whether they continue to take a prescribed …

Importance Statins remain a mainstay in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic
cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Objective To detail the trends in use and total and out-of …

Background: Adherence to evidence-based cardiovascular (CV) medications after an acute
myocardial infarction (MI) is low after the first 6 months. The use of fixed-dose combinations …

BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread use of electrocardiographic changes to
characterize patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction, little is known about recent …

Background Over 320,000 hip fractures occur in North America each year and they are
associated with a mortality rate ranging from 14% to 36% within 1 year of surgery. We …

Abstract The Self‐Care of Heart Failure Index Version 6.2 (SCHFI v. 6.2) is widely used, but
its psychometric profile is still questioned. In a sample of 659 heart failure patients from Italy …

Background Previous studies have shown that women younger than 55 years have higher
hospital mortality rates after acute myocardial infarction (MI) than age-matched men. We …

Aims An increasing number of patients with severe coronary artery disease (CAD) are not
candidates for traditional revascularization and experience angina in spite of excellent …

Objective Acute lower extremity ischemia (ALI) is a common vascular surgery emergency
associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to …