DEAR DR. ROACH: I will be undergoing a thyroidectomy to reduce the chances of thyroid cancer, given my family history, a CHEK2 mutation and ongoing thyroid nodule growth. My concern is that I had an ...

Major electrocardiogram abnormalities are associated with a significant 2-fold higher risk for cardiovascular mortality among patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis compared with a control group.

Even minor ECG abnormalities detected with annual checks signal a greater risk of future CVD events, a study of several million working-age people affirms, although questions remain about whether ...

Florence, Italy - A new study has shown that exercise electrocardiograms (ECGs) may pick up cardiac abnormalities in athletes that are missed by resting, or baseline, ECGs [1]. Dr Francesco Sofi ...

Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...

More than half of participants in the GRADE trial had ECG abnormalities (57.1%) and ECG-defined cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (52.8%) at baseline. The presence of these abnormalities was ...

The treadmill exercise test with electrocardiogram (ECG), also known as an exercise stress test, is one of the most familiar tests in medicine. While exercise testing typically is focused on ...

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — A study suggested that electrocardiogram screening should be performed in patients with sarcoidosis-associated uveitis because life-threatening cardiac involvement may be present ...

The aim of this study was to detect the frequency of the resting electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities among asymptomatic Arab men in Saudi Arabia, since no similar studies had been conducted in this ...