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Stents, bypass surgery show no benefit in heart disease mortality rates among stable patients
November 16, 2019 – By Tracie White test David Maron Patients with severe but stable heart disease who are treated with medications and lifestyle advice alone are no more at risk of a heart attack or death than those who undergo invasive surgical procedures, according to a large, federall...Read more -
New Treatment Approach for Advanced Coronary Artery Disease Leads to Improved Outcomes
New York, NY (November 04, 2021) Use of a novel technique called the quantitative flow ratio (QFR) to precisely identify and measure the severity of artery blockages can lead to significantly improved outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to a new study done in collab...Read more -
Improved Approach to Predicting the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease
MyOme presented data from a poster at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference which focused on the integrated polygenic risk score (caIRS), which combines genetics with traditional clinical risk factors to improve the identification of high-risk individuals for coronary artery di...Read more
