Category: General Cardiology

Beta blockers in heart failure: More benefit has been shown in heart failure with non selective beta blockers than with selective beta one blockers.

Lowering blood pressure in elderly population: aim should be to bring down the blood pressure as much as tolerated by the elderly.

Metabolic consequences of anti hypertensives: effects on electrolytes, lipid levels, uric acid and glycemic status.

Prehypertension was a term coined by JNC 7. It is the result of 'lifestyle syndrome' – consuming too much calories and having too little physical activity.

Novel therapies for reversal of left ventricular remodeling: surgical restoration of shape of LV, treatment of OSA, statins are some of the novel therapies.

Signs and symptoms of heart failure with ejection fraction > 50%, and diastolic dysfunction constitutes the group of heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HNEF).

Myocardial postconditioning : RISK (reperfusion injury salvage kinase) pathway producing upregulation of prosurvival kinases is thought to mediate it.

Antiplatelet drug resistance: Females, those with metabolic syndrome and high triglyceride levels are known to have higher clopidogrel resistance.

Using nitroglycerine, especially for suspected anterior wall infarction is useful in excluding vasospastic angina.

WHO/AHA criteria for acute myocardial infarction, 1950: cardiac pain > 30 min, ST elevation in 2 or more contiguous leads, rise and fall of biomarkers.