It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced and tested in the …

2009 Focused Updates: ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With ST-Elevation
Myocardial Infarction (Updating the 2004 Guideline and 2007 Focused Update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI …

The standing guideline writing committee along with the parent Task Force identified trials
and other key data through October 2011 that may impact guideline recommendations. On …

Document Reviewers: Sigmund Silber (CPG Review Coordinator)(Germany), Frank V.
Aguirre (USA), Nawwar Al-Attar (France), Eduardo Alegria (Spain), Felicita Andreotti (Italy) …

People with diabetes are more likely to be hospitalized and to have longer durations of
hospital stay than those without diabetes. A recent survey estimated that 22% of all hospital …

Late-breaking clinical trials presented at the 2008 and 2009 annual scientific meetings of the
ACC, AHA, and European Society of Cardiology, as well as selected other data through April …

Background Hyperglycemia has been associated with increased inflammatory indexes and
larger infarct sizes in patients with obstructive acute myocardial infarction (obs-AMI). In …

Chronic hyperglycemia is the primary risk factor for the development of complications in
diabetes mellitus (DM); however, it is believed that frequent or large glucose fluctuations …

Diabetes mellitus (DM) has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, and its prevalence is
rising. 1, 2 The implications of a diagnosis of DM are as severe as a diagnosis of coronary …

Introduction While type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increases the risk of cardiac
complications, diabetes treatment choices may increase or decrease the rates of cardiac …