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Study Highlights: Older people may benefit from implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) as much as younger people. Overall health, not age alone, should determine how well people will do after receiving an ICD.

Study Highlights: Opening clogged heart arteries via the radial artery in the wrist is becoming more common. The wrist route may have fewer complications than the traditional route through the femoral artery in the groin. Use of the procedure increased 13-fold in a six-year period.

Study Highlights: Many people with implantable defibrillators may safely participate in a number of vigorous sports. The study challenges some current science recommendations advising against vigorous competitive sports for people with implantable defibrillators. People with implantable defibrillators should decide, with their physicians, about whether they can participate in vigorous competitive sports.

Study Highlights: An experimental, inexpensive iPhone app transmitted ECGs faster and more reliably than traditional emailed photo transmission. The app could help save lives by speeding diagnosis and treatment for the deadliest type of heart attack.

Study Highlights: Controlling heart disease risk factors — like high cholesterol, high blood pressure and smoking — varies widely among outpatient practices.

Study Highlights: Healthcare reform in Massachusetts didn’t result in substantially more hospitalizations, longer stays or higher costs.There were no significant differences in post-reform hospital use in Massachusetts versus to three other states with

Study Highlights: People with strokes caused by blood clots fared better in hospitals participating in the Get With the Guidelines®-Stroke program than in those not involved in the program. People treated in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke hospitals ...

Study Highlights: Heart attack or heart failure patients may have a high risk of death or re-admission for a month or longer after leaving the hospital. The standard practice of tracking deaths and readmissions for only 30 days after discharge misses ...

Study Highlights: Already being fit or getting into shape during middle age can reduce future heart failure risk. Low fitness is an independent, modifiable risk factor for heart failure.

Study Highlights: Young female heart attack patients (18-55 years old) have more medical problems, more chest pain and a poorer quality of life before their heart attacks, compared to men. These findings may provide insight into why young women often have poorer outcomes after heart attacks than their male counterparts. Healthcare providers should routinely assess health status to help identify young women at risk for heart attacks.