Directory of Cardiology Resources

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For sites concerning the application of EBM principles to the practice of Cardiology.

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• 2013 AHA/ACC Guideline on Lifestyle Management to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk

  http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1770218
  Report of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force on Practice Guidelines. [2014]

• 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of overweight and obesity in adults

  http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1770219
  Report of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force on Practice Guidelines and The Obesity Society (TOS). [2014]

• 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

  http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1854231
  Report of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). [2014]

• 2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults

  http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1791497
  Provides thresholds and goals and nine specific recommendations for initiating and modifying pharmacotherapy for adult patients with hypertension. From the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8). [2014]

• AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

  http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1838843
  2014 Report of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force on Practice Guidelines. [2014]

• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

  https://professional.heart.org/professional/ScienceNews/UCM_457211_Clinical-Practice-Guidelines-for-Prevention.jsp
  Series of recent cardiovascular prevention guidelines and advisories, from the American Heart Association (AHA).

• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension in the Community - Weber - 2013 - Th

  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jch.12237/full
  Statement by the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) and the International Society of Hypertension (ISH). [2013]

• Concerns About the Joint National Committee High Blood Pressure 8 Recommendations and Their Relevance to Metabolic Syndrome

  http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/met.2014.1502
  Brings evidence against the JNC-8 guidelines' relaxation of the treatment of hypertension in the context of patients 60 years or older, and in those with metabolic syndrome. [2014]

• COR - Cardio Online Reader

  http://cor.cochrane.cz/index.php
  Best clinical evidence and guidelines in cardiology, critically appraised and rated by quality. [Note: On slow server which may sometimes timeout.]

• Critical Pathways in Cardiology

  http://journals.lww.com/critpathcardio/
  Peer-reviewed quarterly journal on evidence-based critical pathways for the management of patients with cardiac disorders. (Full-text by subscription, abstracts free)

• CVD Prevention in Clinical Practice

  http://www.escardio.org/guidelines-surveys/esc-guidelines/Pages/cvd-prevention.aspx
  European Society of Cardiology guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention.

• Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Artery Diseases

  http://www.escardio.org/Guidelines-&-Education/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Peripheral-Artery-Diseases-Diagnosis-and-Treatment-of
  Evidence-based guidelines on atherosclerotic disease from the European Society of Cardiology. [2011]

• ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure.

  http://www.escardio.org/Guidelines-&-Education/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Acute-and-Chronic-Heart-Failure
  Evidence-based heart failure guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology. [2012]

• Evidence-based Cardiovascular Medicine

  http://www.elsevier.com/journals/evidence-based-cardiovascular-medicine/1361-2611
  Online journal that critically appraises the evidence in the cardiovascular research. Subscription required for full text, but abstracts accessible for free.

• Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Stroke

  http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/42/2/517.long
  Evidence-based recommendations for the reduction of risk of a first stroke, from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. [2011]

• Management of Dyslipidaemias

  http://www.escardio.org/Guidelines-&-Education/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Dyslipidaemias-Management-of
  Evidence-based guidelines on lipid control from the European Society of Cardiology. Slideset included. [2011]

• Managing Blood Cholesterol in Adults

  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/sites/www.nhlbi.nih.gov/files/cholesterol-in-adults.pdf
  Systematic evidence review from the Cholesterol Expert Panel (CEP), 2013. Covers all dyslipidemias, and both primary and secondary prevention, as well as safety recommendations.

• Non-Vitamin K Oral Anticoagulants in Stroke Patients: Practical Issues

  http://j-stroke.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.5853/jos.2016.00157
  Evidence-based practical guidance on the use of the new generation of anticoagulants, focusing on managing the acute event and on initiating or resuming anticoagulation for secondary prevention. [2016]

• Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases in a High-Risk Population: Evidence-Based Approach to CHD Risk Reduction

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487367/
  Review examines the unprecedented high rates of obesity, and the distribution of major cardiovascular disease risk factors, in a high risk population of obese African Americans, and calls for urgent earlier intervention through lifestyle modification to stop this epidemic. [2015]

• Summary of evidence-based guideline update: Prevention of stroke in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

  http://www.neurology.org/content/82/8/716.long
  American Academy of Neurology practice parameter on stroke prevention in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). [2014]

• Systematic Evidence Reviews and Clinical Practice Guidelines

  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-pro/guidelines
  Evidence-based guidelines in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

• Thinking Beyond New Clinical Guidelines: Update in Hypertension

  http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)00715-0/fulltext
  Of all the recently released guidelines on hypertension, those from the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC-8) have met with the greatest debate.This review summarizes these new guidelines, their limitations, and the central issues surrounding them. [2015]

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