This content is machine translated Nutrition and chronic diseases A sweet reckoning 41% of the Swiss population is overweight. The Swiss Diabetes Association estimates that nearly 500,000 people in Switzerland have diabetes. Insulin-resistant obese diabetics are at increased risk for an army…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated ACC 2018 Success story of PCSK9 inhibition continues For the first time after the highly acclaimed FOURIER trial, a PCSK9 inhibitor now also shows a mortality benefit in secondary prevention. The product in question is alirocumab. Experts are…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Multivalvular heart disease Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Valve Regurgitation – Diagnosis and Therapy Multivalvular heart disease is a common condition whose incidence will continue to increase as a result of demographic change. A combination of aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation is most common.…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Coronary heart disease (CHD) Clarification by means of coronary CT Coronary CT allows direct visualization and assessment of the coronaries after i.v. contrast administration and can exclude CAD in symptomatic patients with high negative predictive value. It takes little time…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Cardiac imaging What is the role of myocardial scintigraphy, PET, and SPECT? Myocardial perfusion studies using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are established methods with high diagnostic accuracy for noninvasive ischemia diagnosis in suspected and known CAD.…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 13th Zurich Hypertension Day The difficult to adjust blood pressure 50% of hypertensives are not well controlled with prescribed medications, and about 40% of sufferers in Switzerland are not diagnosed at all. Thilo Burkard, MD, spoke at the Zurich Hypertension…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Swiss study Cancer and heart attack – a problematic combination More and more Swiss people are surviving their cancer. However, as a result, they run the risk of dying from cardiovascular problems. Unfortunately, it is in these patients that the…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Pacemaker Pacemaker knowledge for family physicians The most common indications for pacing are symptomatic second- and third-degree AV blocks, a sick sinus node with symptomatic pauses, and symptomatic chronotropic incompetence. To avoid patient hazards during surgery…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) Genetics and risk stratification for sudden cardiac death. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common hereditary heart muscle disease. The clinical picture ranges from asymptomatic patients to manifest heart failure and sudden cardiac death (SCD). The mainstay of…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM) A dangerous and often unrecognized heart failure It is common for the diagnosis of PPCM to be made only in cardiogenic shock because of rapid exacerbation of heart failure or misinterpretation of symptoms as pregnancy-related or postpartum…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Infarct patients Medication follow-up in the family doctor’s office After acute treatment in the center hospital, the therapy of infarct patients is not complete. In addition to lifestyle changes, treatment of blood pressure, cholesterol, or any heart failure, antithrombotic…
