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Heart health
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Silent brain injuries after a heart implant fell from 32% to 12% on a low-dose blood thinner
Closing off part of the heart is meant to prevent strokes, and the procedure itself scatters tiny clots to the brain. Randomizing 164 patients compared two ways of dosing afterwards.
Sep 16, 2026
Ultrasound-guided stenting cut cardiac deaths in East Asian trials and not in anyone else's
Guidelines increasingly recommend imaging inside the artery while placing a stent. Pooling 17 trials and 14,033 patients found the benefit sat almost entirely in one part of the world.
Sep 16, 2026
How well the heart's upper chamber squeezed predicted deaths in amyloidosis; its size did not
Transthyretin amyloidosis stiffens the heart, and clinicians judge the upper chambers by how enlarged they look. Measuring 644 patients found the measurement everyone uses carried no signal.
Sep 16, 2026
Regular cannabis users had 9% fewer extra heartbeats on days they were randomly assigned to inhale
UC San Francisco cardiologists set out to test whether cannabis adds extra heartbeats. In 108 regular users the count fell instead, and the team warns that is no evidence cannabis is good for the heart.
Sep 14, 2026