Cardiovascular Disease Doctors in Kaneohe, HI - Medicare Status, Address, Contact

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Dr. Ryan Michael Smith, DO, FACC
Internal Medicine - Cardiovascular Disease
Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments
Practice Location: 46-001 Kamehameha Hwy Ste 212, Kaneohe, HI 96744
Phone: 808-636-6393 Fax: 866-573-0778

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Study identifies drug with a positive effect on heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction

Until now, patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction – the most common type of heart failure in the elderly – have had no access to evidenced-based treatments. For the first time, a large clinical trial led by Prof. Dr. Stefan Anker from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has identified a drug which has a distinctly positive effect on prognosis. In patients affected by this type of heart failure, the drug – empagliflozin – reduces the risk of hospitalization or cardiovascular death by 21 percent. The results of this research have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Republicans set up election-year showdown on budget

As the Senate prepares to vote today on four separate budget plans - all of which will likely be rejected - House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says he will use the next go-round over the debt limit to force Democrats to make deeper cuts to federal health and safety-net programs, including Medicare.

GOLD predicts mortality in COPD

The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease classification of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease predicts mortality better than the 2011 ABCD scoring system, report Norwegian researchers.

Globalization of Western lifestyle has led to diabetes being a major health care problem worldwide

Men and women with diabetes at age 50 and older appear not to live as long overall, or have as many years without cardiovascular disease, than individuals without diabetes, according to a report in the June 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Obesity and knee osteoarthritis will lead to loss of 86 million healthy years of life

An estimated 10 million Americans suffer from knee osteoarthritis (OA), making it one of the most common causes of disability in the US. Due to obesity and symptomatic knee OA, Americans over the age of 50 will together lose the equivalent of 86 million healthy years of life, concluded researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), who investigated the potential gains in quality and quantity of life that could be achieved averting losses due to obesity and knee OA.

Cardiovascular Disease Doctors in Kaneohe, HI Accepting Medicare