Kaiser Permanente Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease study confirms low long-term risk for most aneurysms OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A large, new Kaiser Permanente study provides high-quality evidence that most of the 33,000 patients diagnosed each year in the U.S. with a thoracic aortic aneurysm — a bulge in […]
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Fewer hospitalizations for home-based cardiac rehab patients
Kaiser Permanente study showed patients in home-based cardiac rehabilitation had fewer hospitalizations than those in center-based cardiac rehabilitation PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Patients who participated in in-home cardiac rehabilitation had fewer hospitalizations over 12 months than patients who participated in center-based cardiac rehabilitation, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published August […]
Low stroke risk in patients with very narrowed neck arteries
Kaiser Permanente study suggests that for patients with severe asymptomatic carotid stenosis who do not have surgery medical management alone may reduce stroke risk OAKLAND, Calif. , May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The risk of having a future stroke caused by a severe blockage in an artery in the neck that is not […]
New study finds both components of blood pressure predict heart attack, stroke risk
OAKLAND, Calif., July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Both numbers in a blood pressure reading — the “upper” systolic and the “lower” diastolic — independently predicted the risk of heart attack or stroke in a very large Kaiser Permanente study that included more than 36 million blood pressure readings from more than 1 […]