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Readmissions to Hospital After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Readmissions (2019)
Journal Article
Kwok, C. S., Narain, A., Pacha, H. M., Lo, T. S., Holroyd, E. W., Alraies, M. C., …Mamas, M. A. (2020). Readmissions to Hospital After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Readmissions. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, 21(3), 375-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carrev.2019.05.016

Background
Readmissions after PCI are a burden to patients and health services that are not well understood.

Methods
A systematic review was performed to identify studies of readmission after PCI. Readmission rates and causes of readmission were... Read More about Readmissions to Hospital After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Readmissions.

Non-specific Chest Pain and 30-day Unplanned Readmissions in the United States: (From the Nationwide Readmission Database) (2019)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2019). Non-specific Chest Pain and 30-day Unplanned Readmissions in the United States: (From the Nationwide Readmission Database). American Journal of Cardiology, 1343-1350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.01.012

Chest pain is a common reason for admission to hospital and little is known regarding 30 day unplanned readmissions after an admission with a primary discharge diagnosis of nonspecific chest pain. We analyzed patients with a primary diagnosis of nons... Read More about Non-specific Chest Pain and 30-day Unplanned Readmissions in the United States: (From the Nationwide Readmission Database).

Does rhythm matter in acute heart failure? An insight from the British Society for Heart Failure National Audit. (2019)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2019). Does rhythm matter in acute heart failure? An insight from the British Society for Heart Failure National Audit. Zeitschrift für Kardiologie, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-019-01463-5

BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in patients with acute heart failure (AHF). The presence of AF is associated with adverse prognosis in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) but little is known about it... Read More about Does rhythm matter in acute heart failure? An insight from the British Society for Heart Failure National Audit..

TEMPORAL TRENDS IN TIME TO INVASIVE CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY AND ASSOCIATION WITH CLINICAL OUTCOMES FOLLOWING NON-ST ELEVATION ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN UNITED STATES (2019)
Journal Article
Rashid, M., Fischman, D., Martinez, S., Capers, Q., Savage, M., Zaman, A., …Mamas, M. A. (2019). TEMPORAL TRENDS IN TIME TO INVASIVE CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY AND ASSOCIATION WITH CLINICAL OUTCOMES FOLLOWING NON-ST ELEVATION ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN UNITED STATES. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 73(9), 124. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0735-1097%2819%2930732-6

A review of interventions to improve clinical outcomes following hospitalisation for heart failure (2019)
Journal Article
Van Spall, H. G., & Mamas, M. A. A review of interventions to improve clinical outcomes following hospitalisation for heart failure. Polish Heart Journal (Kardiologia Polska), 77(3), 341-346. https://doi.org/10.5603/kp.a2019.0039

Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of hospitalisation and death among older adults in high-income countries. HF is often accompanied by comorbid conditions, and patients hospitalised for HF commonly die or are readmitted in the weeks follow- ing h... Read More about A review of interventions to improve clinical outcomes following hospitalisation for heart failure.

True 99th centile of high sensitivity cardiac troponin for hospital patients: prospective, observational cohort study (2019)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2019). True 99th centile of high sensitivity cardiac troponin for hospital patients: prospective, observational cohort study. BMJ, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l729

Objective
Clinicians use the cardiac troponin (cTn) assay to aid in the diagnosis of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Each assay manufacturer provides the 99th percentile for cTn levels in a group of healthy individuals, and this level is taken... Read More about True 99th centile of high sensitivity cardiac troponin for hospital patients: prospective, observational cohort study.

Understanding Social Media: Opportunities for Cardiovascular Medicine (2019)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2019). Understanding Social Media: Opportunities for Cardiovascular Medicine. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1089-1093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.12.044

Cardiology professionals have used social media platforms such as Twitter to gain exposure to new research, network with experts, share opinions, and engage in scientific debates. The power of social media to communicate openly, with wide-reaching ac... Read More about Understanding Social Media: Opportunities for Cardiovascular Medicine.

A systematic review of measures using clinical data for assessing the severity of Type 2 diabetes (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Zghebi, S., Panagioti, M., Rutter, M., Ashcroft, D., van Marwijk, H., Salisbury, C., …Kontopantelis, E. (2019, March). A systematic review of measures using clinical data for assessing the severity of Type 2 diabetes. Poster presented at Diabetes UK Professional Conference 2019, ACC Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Background/Aims: The assessment of disease severity in people with diabetes enables identification of patients in need for intensive and targeted therapies, and could help optimise the allocation of healthcare resources. We aimed to identify and appr... Read More about A systematic review of measures using clinical data for assessing the severity of Type 2 diabetes.

Correction: Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infections are expensive and associated with prolonged hospitalisation: UK Retrospective Observational Study (2019)
Journal Article
Ahmed, F. Z., Fullwood, C., Zaman, M., Qamruddin, A., Cunnington, C., Mamas, M. A., …Zaidi, A. (2019). Correction: Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infections are expensive and associated with prolonged hospitalisation: UK Retrospective Observational Study. PloS one, 14(3), Article e0213682. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213682

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206611.].

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPONENTS OF DIET AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND MORTALITY: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT EVIDENCE (2019)
Journal Article
Kwok, C. S., Gulati, M., Michos, E., Frates, E. P., Potts, J., Wu, P., …Mamas, M. A. (2019). RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPONENTS OF DIET AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND MORTALITY: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT EVIDENCE. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 73(9), 1806. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0735-1097%2819%2932412-x