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Pregnancy Complications as an Omen for Cardiovascular DiseaseFree

Women who delivered small-for-gestational-age babies were more likely to experience ischemic heart disease in later life.

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Few Americans Meet Goals for Cardiovascular Health

Healthy behaviors are significantly associated with decreased mortality, but recent decades have seen little progress toward improving those behaviors.

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What's the Predictive Value of Cholesterol Fractions Other Than LDL?

In patients treated with statins, non–HDL cholesterol was the best predictor of CVD risk.

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Does Lowering Cholesterol Reduce Parkinson Disease Risk?

An analysis of two large prospective cohorts suggests it might, but cautious interpretation is warranted.

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Fitness and Overweight: How Do They Contribute to Cardiovascular Risk?

Improvements in one measure somewhat — but not completely — offset deteriorations in the other.

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Value of Asking About Family History of Heart Disease

Systematically asking primary care patients to report such histories substantially increased the percentage identified as having high CV risk.

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Patients with Psoriasis Have an Increased Risk for Coronary Artery Disease

The association between psoriasis and vascular disease strengthens with greater disease severity and duration.

FEATURE

Briefly Noted

Increased cardiovascular risk associated with psoriasis, protective effects of cutaneous discoid lupus, treatment for erosive pustular scalp dermatosis, and quality of life in patients with CLE-induced photosensitivity

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What's Really Important in a Woman's Lipid Profile?

Prospective data from the Women's Health Initiative suggest that HDL level is a significant inverse predictor of coronary events, regardless of LDL level.

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Lifetime Cardiovascular Risk: The More Things Change . . .

Risk factors are less prevalent than in the past, but they are just as predictive of outcome.

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