Statistical considerations in economic evaluations: a guide for cardiologists.

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the effects of simvastatin only or combined with continuous hormone replacement therapy on the serum lipid profile in hypercholesterolaemic post-menopausal women. METHODS AND RESULTS:One hundred hypercholesterolaemic post-menopausal women were given either simvastatin 10 mg daily together with oestrog...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Fak AS,Erenus M,Tezcan H,Caymaz O,Atagündüz P,Oktay S,Oktay A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We investigated whether apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1) could better identify patients with severe vessel damage than HDL-cholesterol in a population with recent acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS:One hundred and forty-one male patients (mean age: 54.3 +/- 7.3 years) who had undergone coronary angiograp...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Garfagnini A,Devoto G,Rosselli P,Boggiano P,Venturini M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisoprolol is a new cardioselective beta-blocker with a long half-life. The efficacy of once daily bisoprolol (10 mg) and atenolol (100 mg) was assessed in 20 patients with stable angina using a placebo controlled double-blind randomized crossover protocol. Efficacy was assessed by computer assisted treadmill exercise...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Kohli RS,Khurmi NS,Kardash MM,Hughes LO,Lahiri A,Raftery EB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study 27 post-myocardial infarction patients were treated with Persantin capsules (Depot-Kapseln, sustained release form), containing 200 mg dipyridamole, b.i.d. over a period of 3 weeks. Baseline levels for plasma beta-thromboglobulin (BTG), platelet factor 4 (PF4), and serum thromboxane B2 (TXB2) were...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Safai-Kutti S,Kutti J,Vedin A,Wilhelmsson C

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Sudden unexplained death syndrome occurs in previously healthy South-east Asian young adults without any structural cause of death. The common electrocardiographic (ECG) change in sudden unexplained death syndrome survivors is right bundle branch block and ST elevations in leads V(1) to V(3), which are similar to ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Sangwatanaroj S,Prechawat S,Sunsaneewitayakul B,Sitthisook S,Tosukhowong P,Tungsanga K

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Cardiac hypertrophy is a common and often lethal complication of arterial hypertension. Elevation of myocyte cyclic GMP levels by local actions of endogenous atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) or by pharmacological inhibition of phosphodiesterase-5 was shown to counter-regulate p...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Frantz S,Klaiber M,Baba HA,Oberwinkler H,Völker K,Gaβner B,Bayer B,Abeβer M,Schuh K,Feil R,Hofmann F,Kuhn M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:A lack of donor hearts has stimulated interest in using blood pumps to treat severe heart failure. We tested the hypothesis that a new continuous flow circulatory assist device could be employed safely to relieve symptoms of heart failure and evaluated the potential to prolong life. METHODS AND RESULTS:An intraca...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Siegenthaler MP,Westaby S,Frazier OH,Martin J,Banning A,Robson D,Pepper J,Poole-Wilson P,Beyersdorf F

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive thrombocytosis following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery is generally considered to be a benign condition which is transient and does not require specific therapy. We describe three patients who developed stroke in association with reactive thrombocytosis in the late recovery period following cardiopulmonary b...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Crowley JJ,Hannigan M,Daly K

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental abnormality in syndrome X (angina pectoris, ischaemia-like stress ECG despite angiographically normal coronary arteries) might be patchily distributed increased tone in pre-arteriolar coronary vessels with compensatory release of adenosine. The aim of this study was to confirm this hypothesis and to ex...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Meeder JG,Blanksma PK,Crijns HJ,Anthonio RL,Pruim J,Brouwer J,de Jong RM,van der Wall EE,Vaalburg W,Lie KI

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:Bioresorbable scaffolds (BRS) provide short-term coronary artery scaffolding and drug delivery. Although prior trials showed a higher rate of device failure compared with conventional drug-eluting stents (DES), only a single trial investigated patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Byrne RA,Alfonso F,Schneider S,Maeng M,Wiebe J,Kretov E,Bradaric C,Rai H,Cuesta J,Rivero F,Hoppmann P,Schlichtenmaier J,Christiansen EH,Cassese S,Joner M,Schunkert H,Laugwitz KL,Kastrati A

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, two patterns of regional contract on of the left ventricle have been studied: endocardial motion and wall thickening, in order to check which of these was the most affected after myocardial infarction. The clinical relevance of this comparison was to assess which parameter of the regional contraction ab...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Germain P,Roul G,Constantinesco A,Coulbois PM,Baruthio J,Mossard JM,Bareiss P,Sacrez A

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:A potential role for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in the aetiology of suicide has not been comprehensively examined. In addition to being small in scale and poorly characterized, existing studies very rarely sample Asian populations in whom risk factor-suicide relationships may plausibly differ to Cau...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Jee SH,Kivimaki M,Kang HC,Park IS,Samet JM,Batty GD

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress echocardiography is an established method for the diagnosis and prognostic stratification of coronary artery disease. In the last few years, the tremendous technological and conceptual versatility of this technique has been increasingly applied in challenging diagnostic fields. Today, in the echocardiography la...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Picano E,Pellikka PA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the relative impact on survival of the delay from estimated time of collapse to call for an ambulance among patients who suffer from a bystander witnessed out of hospital cardiac arrest of a cardiac aetiology. METHODS:A majority of all ambulance organizations in Sweden (covering 85% of Sweden inhabitan...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Herlitz J,Engdahl J,Svensson L,Young M,Angquist KA,Holmberg S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied regional left ventricular (LV) wall motion with M-mode, cross-sectional (2D) echocardiography and LV angiography in 50 patients with a recent myocardial infarction. Regional LV wall motion was evaluated according to a 9-segment model. 2D echocardiography permitted information from all, M-mode echocardi...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Lindvall K,Hamsten A,Landou C,Szamosi A,de Faire U

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial mycotic aneurysms (IMA) occur in 1-3% of all infective endocarditis. Although spontaneous resolution was evidenced on serial angiograms in many asymptomatic cases, the prognosis, if they rupture, is reported to be worse and partly contingent on the therapeutic approach. Among 12 patients (six acute and si...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Monsuez JJ,Vittecoq D,Rosenbaum A,Goujon C,Wolff M,Witchitz S,Modai J

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four hour Holter monitoring and symptom-limited exercise testing were carried out prior to discharge in 157 patients recovering from acute myocardial infarction. Supraventricular arrhythmias (SVT) during Holter monitoring were recorded in 15%, and ST segment depression during exercise in 27%. No association bet...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Jespersen CM,Vaage-Nilsen M,Hansen JF

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In the dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) study, continued thienopyridine beyond 12 months after drug-eluting stent placement was associated with increased mortality compared with placebo. We sought to evaluate factors related to mortality in randomized patients receiving either drug-eluting or bare metal stents in ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Mauri L,Elmariah S,Yeh RW,Cutlip DE,Steg PG,Windecker S,Wiviott SD,Cohen DJ,Massaro JM,D'Agostino RB Sr,Braunwald E,Kereiakes DJ,DAPT Study Investigators.

更新日期：2016-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent identification of mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain gene (MYH7), a major responsible gene for HCM, has provided the opportunity to characterize genotype-phenotype correlation in HCM families. In this study we analysed the phenotypic expression of two beta-myosin heavy chain (beta MHC) mutations...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Marian AJ,Mares A Jr,Kelly DP,Yu QT,Abchee AB,Hill R,Roberts R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polymorphisms within renin angiotensin system genes have been investigated as risk factors for coronary artery disease in different populations with contradicting results. The aim of this study was to investigate the genotype distribution and the allele frequencies of ACE, AT1R and AGT gene polymorphisms as ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Fatini C,Abbate R,Pepe G,Battaglini B,Gensini F,Ruggiano G,Gensini GF,Guazzelli R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Prospective studies indicate that apolipoprotein measurements predict coronary heart disease (CHD) risk; however, evidence is conflicting, especially in the US. Our aim was to assess whether measurements of apolipoprotein B (apoB) and apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) can improve the ability to predict CHD death beyond ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Sierra-Johnson J,Fisher RM,Romero-Corral A,Somers VK,Lopez-Jimenez F,Ohrvik J,Walldius G,Hellenius ML,Hamsten A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) and chronic heart failure (CHF) are two major and even growing cardiovascular conditions that often coexist. However, few data are available to guide treatment of AF in patients with CHF. This review summarizes current literature concerning the following topics: (i) prognostic relevance of AF ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Neuberger HR,Mewis C,van Veldhuisen DJ,Schotten U,van Gelder IC,Allessie MA,Böhm M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty patients (31 male, 29 female) were studied in a 4-week double-blind parallel dose-response study. Patients received amlodipine 1.25 mg (n = 12), 2.5 mg (n = 12), 5 mg (n = 12), 10 mg (n = 12) or placebo (n = 12) once a day. Anti-anginal efficacy was assessed by sequential treadmill testing 24 h post-dose, freque...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Cocco G,Alfiero R

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias were assessed by the application of ECG criteria derived from experimental electrophysiology. These interval criteria describe for ideal and modulated parasystole, resetable spontaneous automaticity, early and delayed afterdepolarizations and reentry, how QRS complexes of ectopic ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： van Hemel NM,Swenne CA,Robles de Medina EO

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We aimed to assess the increased risk of death and severe vascular events in elderly individuals with subclinical or manifest peripheral arterial disease (PAD), evidenced by low ankle brachial index (ABI < 0.9) in primary care. METHODS AND RESULTS:In this monitored prospective observational study, 6880 representa...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Diehm C,Lange S,Darius H,Pittrow D,von Stritzky B,Tepohl G,Haberl RL,Allenberg JR,Dasch B,Trampisch HJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was found to be an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality as well as adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in high-risk populations. Findings from population-based studies are scarce and inconsistent. We investigated the gender-specific association of CKD with all-cause ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Meisinger C,Döring A,Löwel H,KORA Study Group.

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:To determine tolerability and the optimal dose regimen of the soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator vericiguat in patients with chronic heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Methods and results:SOCRATES-PRESERVED was a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind, Phase 2b dose-finding...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Pieske B,Maggioni AP,Lam CSP,Pieske-Kraigher E,Filippatos G,Butler J,Ponikowski P,Shah SJ,Solomon SD,Scalise AV,Mueller K,Roessig L,Gheorghiade M

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of therapeutic interventions to restore blood flow in patients with acute infarction, early identification of salvageable myocardium has gained clinical importance. It was the purpose of this study to define regional blood flow and glucose metabolism in patients with acute myocardial infarction as asse...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Schwaiger M,Brunken RC,Krivokapich J,Child JS,Tillisch JH,Phelps ME,Schelbert HR

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the following five risk factors have a major role in the primary prevention of sudden death (SD): family history of SD (FHSD), syncope, massive wall thickness (MWTh) >30 mm, non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (nsVT) in Holter monitoring of electrocardiography, and abnormal ...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Dimitrow PP,Chojnowska L,Rudzinski T,Piotrowski W,Ziólkowska L,Wojtarowicz A,Wycisk A,Dabrowska-Kugacka A,Nowalany-Kozielska E,Sobkowicz B,Wróbel W,Aleszewicz-Baranowska J,Rynkiewicz A,Loboz-Grudzien K,Marchel M,Wysokinski

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aims Epidemiological studies reported two contrasting trends: on one hand, a significant improvement in the use of evidence-based treatments of patients discharged with a myocardial infarction (MI). On the other hand, the increasing number of elderly and co-morbid patients who are usually less treated. The aim of this...

journal_title：European heart journal

authors： Macchia A,Romero M,D'Ettorre A,Mariani J,Tognoni G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00