Media Alert: Sunday 9:30 a.m. News from the American Heart Association

CHICAGO, Nov. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

WHAT:  SUNDAY 9:30 AM CST NEWS ALERT from the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2010, the premier cardiovascular instructional and research meeting in the world. More than 3,600 abstracts of original research will be presented and over 20,000 attendees are expected. The American Heart Association communications department provides a full program of news materials and news events to media. Note: all times listed are Central Standard Time.

WHERE:  McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, Ill.

WHEN:  Saturday, Nov. 13 – Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010

9:30 a.m. Sunday News from the American Heart Association:

News Conference: Late-Breaking Clinical Trials Updates: Heart Failure

Researchers presented findings and updates from clinical trials related to heart failure.

• Adding therapy to coordinate heart contraction reduces deaths, heart failure hospitalizations. (RAFT).
• New pump to treat heart failure in waiting transplant patients achieves goal (ADVANCE).
• Eplerenone significantly improves survival in systolic heart failure patients with mild symptoms (EMPHASIS-HF).
• Large study of patients with severe heart failure confirms nesiritide safe, but shows no significant benefit on symptoms or mortality (ASCEND-HF).

News Releases:

• Smoking among some adults dropped dramatically in past three decades.
• Less salt in teenagers' diet may improve heart health in adulthood.

ONLINE:

• For more on this news and additional resources, visit the SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS 2010 NEWSROOM.
• For animation, audio, video and photos for Sessions news releases go to the newsroom link, then "Multimedia Resources," "Scientific Confs. & Meetings" and "Scientific Sessions."
• To see Scientific Sessions news conferences streamed live or recorded previously, visit www.MedPageToday.com.

ON SITE: News Media Center, North Building, Hall C, McCormick Place Convention Center. Hours of operation: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday; 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday - Tuesday; 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Wednesday.

TOMORROW'S NEWS CONFERENCE: Findings from Late Breaking Clinical Trials related to interventional cardiology will be presented at a news conference Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 8:00 a.m.

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SOURCE American Heart Association