Gerald T. Gau

TL;DR: As an initial management strategy in patients with stable coronary artery disease, PCI did not reduce the risk of death, myocardial infarction, or other major cardiovascular events when added to optimal medical therapy.

TL;DR: A review of the evidence associating these factors in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, the mechanism of risk, and the clinical implications of this knowledge is presented in this article.

TL;DR: The data suggest that exercise hypertension carries a small but significant risk for major cardiovascular events in healthy, asymptomatic persons with normal resting blood pressures.

TL;DR: It is concluded that echocardiography is helpful in patients with bacterial endocarditis because it permits recognition of unsuspected preexistent lesions and the characteristic vegetations, as well as the extent and nature of valvular damage secondary to bacterialendocarditis.

TL;DR: Overall, peak exercise systolic and diastolic blood pressures were higher in men than in women and increased with advancing age, which will allow investigators to define exercise hypertension in statistical terms stratified by age and gender.