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Finger prick: diabetes patients face higher heart failure risk

Diabetes patients face 65% higher risk of heart failure

Patients with diabetes face a far greater risk of heart failure and there are large variations in co...

Alcohol misuse raises AF risk

Alcohol misuse greatly raises the risk of AF among people with cardiovascular disease or diabetes, r...

NICE: GPs must give advice to patients using smokeless tobacco products

GPs urged to act over patients' smokeless tobacco use

GPs should encourage people in South Asian communities to stop using smokeless tobacco and offer ref...

Cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin (Photo: SPL)

Simvastatin contraindications expanded by drug watchdog

Simvastatin product warnings will be expanded to include additional contraindications, the MHRA has ...

Patients with hypertension: study shows GPs need a better understanding of patients' attitudes to hypertension in order to improve outcomes (Photograph: JH Lancy)

GPs must grasp patient perspective to tackle cardiovascular disease

GPs need a greater understanding of patients' views of cardiovascular disease to help improve outcom...

Pharmacists: audit suggests pharmacists could improve dose optimisation and patient adherence to therapy (Photograph: SPL)

Research backs greater pharmacist role in long-term conditions care

Pharmacists should be more involved in the long-term management of people with type 2 diabetes to im...

Cholesterol 'immunity' protects against MI

An inherited 'immunity' to high cholesterol discovered in some people cuts their risk of MI by almos...

NICE says QOF targets for BP should be lowered

QOF targets for BP should be reduced to 140/90 for people under 80 years old for 2013/14, but kept a...

Lowering BP: German research suggests that donating blood can reduce cardiovascular risk markers

Blood donation can reduce BP

Blood donation cuts BP and cardiovascular risk markers among people with metabolic syndrome, German ...

A common therapy device called a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine is prescribed for moderate cases (SPL)

Sleep apnoea treatment may cut hypertension risk

Treating obstructive sleep apnoea with breathing equipment may prevent hypertension, a study has fou...

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