Moderate drinking increases risk of AF

Contrary to the popular notion that moderate alcohol consumption is good for the heart, an Australian study shows that even modest levels of drinking has deleterious effects on atrial function. Using cardiac MRI images, cardiologists in Melbourne found that regular...

Contrary to the popular notion that moderate alcohol consumption is good for the heart, an Australian study shows that...

Heart disease

Visual aids motivate patients into CV risk factor reduction

Pictorial representations of cardiovascular risk using carotid ultrasound techniques may be useful in motivating patients to better adherence to medications and lifestyle change. A randomised trial of about 3,500 people in a Swedish cardiovascular screening and prevention program compared the...

Pictorial representations of cardiovascular risk using carotid ultrasound techniques may be useful in motivating patients to better adherence to medications...

Heart disease

Melbourne surgeons show long-term benefits of radial artery harvest in CABG

Victorian cardiac surgeons who pioneered harvesting of forearm arteries for coronary bypass surgery have shown that the practice is safe and does not compromise the function or blood flow of the affected arm even after 20 years. Since the 1990s Professor...

Victorian cardiac surgeons who pioneered harvesting of forearm arteries for coronary bypass surgery have shown that the practice is safe...

Heart disease

Spirometry safe for people with thoracic aortic aneurysms

Pulmonary function testing is safe in patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA), with no evidence of acute rupture of even large aneurysms or poorer outcomes following spirometry, UK research shows. Researchers from the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, led by Respiratory...

Pulmonary function testing is safe in patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA), with no evidence of acute rupture of even...