Abstract:
:Plasma cholesterol levels were measured in 15,892 participants of a cholesterol screening in Hartford, Connecticut. The screenees were typically health conscious as evidenced by the low prevalence of current cigarette smoking (12%). However, more than 25% of the men and 35% of the women over the age of 50 years had cholesterol levels in excess of 240 mg/dl, placing them at moderate to high risk for coronary artery disease. Results showed a pronounced dose-response relationship between cigarette smoking and cholesterol levels in men of all age groups and in women of premenopausal age; however, average cholesterol levels were similar in exsmokers and subjects who had never smoked. Risk analysis revealed a strong positive association between cholesterol and prevalence of nonfatal myocardial infarctions. Notably patients with newly diagnosed hypercholesterolemia reduced their cholesterol levels an average of 40 mg/dl under the care of a physician. These results indicate that cholesterol screening coupled with physician follow-up and treatment can have a substantial impact in lowering cholesterol levels and the attendant risk of cardiovascular disease.
journal_name
Am Heart Jjournal_title
American heart journalauthors
Wynder EL,Harris RE,Haley NJdoi
10.1016/0002-8703(89)90741-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-03-01 00:00:00pages
649-56issue
3eissn
0002-8703issn
1097-6744pii
0002-8703(89)90741-2journal_volume
117pub_type
杂志文章abstract:BACKGROUND:Transradial approach (TRA) for cardiac catheterizations and interventions improves clinical outcomes compared with transfemoral access, and its use is increasing worldwide. However, there are limited data on successive use of same artery for repeat procedures. METHODS:Between May 2010 and May 2011, all cons...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2012.10.016
更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) has been introduced as therapy for right ventricular (RV) to pulmonary artery conduit dysfunction in patients with congenital heart disease. It has been shown that RV systolic function improved early after PPVI. The effects of PPVI on RV diastolic function and...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2009.04.023
更新日期:2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Bleeding and blood transfusion are associated with increased morbidity and mortality among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE ACS); however, the economic consequences of these complications are not well defined. We sought to determine the relationship between bleeding, bloo...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2007.10.014
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Experimental studies suggest that metabolic myocardial support by intravenous (IV) glucose, insulin, and potassium (GIK) reduces ischemia-induced arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, mortality, progression from unstable angina pectoris to acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and myocardial infarction size. However, tr...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2012.02.002
更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Prior studies have reported race and sex differences in cardiac catheterization use after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It is unclear whether race or sex differences in procedure refusal may contribute to this difference. We sought to determine whether cardiac catheterization refusal rates differ by pat...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1067/mhj.2002.126122
更新日期:2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 17-year-old man with staphylococcal endocarditis of the mitral valve developed an infective aneurysm of the posterior left ventricular wall. Echocardiography revealed an echo-free space posterior to the posterior left ventricular wall. This echo-free space undoubtedly represented the aneurysmal sac, because it could...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(78)90051-0
更新日期:1978-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The plasma concentration of atrial natriuretic polypeptide (ANP) was measured in nine patients with essential hypertension during two grades of exercise tests performed in the supine position on a bicycle ergometer. The plasma ANP concentration significantly increased from 97.0 +/- 19.2 pg/ml to 107.6 +/- 23.7 pg/ml (...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(88)90159-7
更新日期:1988-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The CD40 receptor and its ligand (CD40L) are known to modulate both inflammation and thrombosis-2 processes important for the development and clinical expression of atherosclerosis. Circulating soluble CD40L (sCD40L) concentration predicts cardiovascular risk in selected patient samples. The purpose of this ...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2008.06.041
更新日期:2008-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are present in peripheral blood and can promote postnatal angiogenesis. The number and function of circulating EPCs are altered in diabetics. This study sought to investigate whether the number and functional properties of EPCs from patients with type II diabetes could be ...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2006.07.029
更新日期:2006-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Although the safety and cost-effectiveness of same-day discharge after uncomplicated transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (TR-PCI) is well established in Europe and Asia, such data are not available for US patients. METHODS:All patients who underwent TR-PCI at our high-volume US medical center bet...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2008.07.018
更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated. Open-ches...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(87)90050-0
更新日期:1987-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The purpose of our study was to evaluate the implementation of guidelines for the treatment of cardiogenic shock (CS) complicating the acute coronary syndromes (ACS). METHODS AND RESULTS:Of the 10 136 patients in the Euro-Heart-Survey-ACS with complete data, CS occurred in 549 (5.4%), of whom 28.6% had CS u...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2004.06.004
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In a study of GTN absorption during exercise and high ambient temperature, 12 healthy volunteers carried 10 mg glyceryl trinitrate (GTN, nitroglycerin) transdermal patches for 6 hours during each of 3 days. During a control day the mean plasma GTN concentration ranged from 1.0 nmol/L (SD +/- 0.8 nmol/L) to 1.5 nmol/L ...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(86)90518-1
更新日期:1986-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::In over 30 years of surveillance of 2873 women, 574 developed initial clinical manifestations of CHD. A number of antecedent metabolic risk factors proved atherogenic, including blood lipids, glucose tolerance, uric acid, and menopause. Serum total cholesterol predicts as strongly in women as in men. The predictive po...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(87)90511-4
更新日期:1987-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:beta-blockers have been shown to benefit patients after myocardial infarction by decreasing mortality, sudden cardiac death, and reinfarction. Although beta-blockers are recommended for all patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) without contraindications, a target heart rate (HR) is recommended only fo...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2009.06.023
更新日期:2009-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:In patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the rate of microvascular embolization and no-reflow promoted by coronary stenting with the use of conventional techniques (CS) appears to be greater than the one that occurs with balloon angioplasty. The minor invasiveness of direct stenting (DS) of the in...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1067/mhj.2001.117778
更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Carvedilol therapy during congestive heart failure demonstrated a good efficacy in mortality rate reduction and in improvement of left ventricular (LV) systolic performance. However, currently there is not any finding about the drug's effect on diastolic filling. The aim of this study was to evaluate the eff...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/s0002-8703(03)00525-8
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Oxygen has long been assumed beneficial for all ill and injured patients. However, hyperoxia may be harmful and aggravate myocardial injury such as that caused by myocardial infarction. We aimed to investigate if hyperoxia increases myocardial injury following direct current cardioversion compared with room air. METH...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2017.10.006
更新日期:2018-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::To determine how early myocardial infarction can be detected, serial creatine kinase MB concentrations were sampled in 313 patients during triage of acute (less than 12 hours) chest pain. Serum was sampled on hospital arrival (baseline) and hourly for 3 hours (total of four samples). Creatine kinase MB concentrations ...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(92)90646-d
更新日期:1992-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Occlusion of the right coronary artery (RCA) in the dog is associated with spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) during the 18 to 26 hours post occlusion period. Electrophysiologic studies suggest that these tachycardias are caused mainly by an automatic mechanism. In the present study we evaluated in 16 ...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(86)90045-1
更新日期:1986-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The study aimed to analyze the use of intensive lipid-lowering therapy (I-LLT) at discharge in a broad population of patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). BACKGROUND:Early and intensive statin therapy in ACS has been shown to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Utilization and...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2010.12.014
更新日期:2011-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Because of its unique ability to demonstrate the metabolic consequences of myocardial ischemia, positron emission tomography (PET) is extremely valuable in assessing myocardial viability. PET imaging can identify the myocardial segments that are likely to improve after revascularization and may be more sensitive and s...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(91)90803-p
更新日期:1991-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Drug-eluting stents have been shown to reduce restenosis in many types of lesions. The purpose of this article is to assess the efficacy of sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting stents in patients with bifurcation lesions. METHODS:Between June 2003 and October 2004, 205 patients were enrolled in a prospective r...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2006.10.017
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:With one-quarter of initial myocardial infarctions (MI) being unrecognized MI (UMI), recognition is critical to minimize further cardiovascular risk. Diabetes mellitus is an established risk factor for UMI. If impaired fasting glucose (IFG) also increased the risk for UMI, it would represent a significant pu...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2015.08.003
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The purpose of this study were to determine the specificity of the head-up tilt test in normal subjects when a graded isoproterenol infusion is used, and to evaluate the role of dynamic ventricular volume change during head-up tilt as a mechanism of syncope. We prospectively studied 12 normal volunteers, each of whom ...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(94)90016-7
更新日期:1994-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Currently available internal cardiac defibrillators use a uniphasic, truncated exponential waveform morphology of about 6 msec in duration at an energy level of 23 to 33 joules. To determine if improved defibrillation could be achieved with a different waveform morphology, we implanted 4.5 cm2 titanium patches to the ...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(89)90187-7
更新日期:1989-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A review of the clinical course of chronic heart failure demonstrates that current outcomes remain highly unsatisfactory both in mortality and perhaps more important in morbidity. The extraordinary satisfactory functional responses seen in patients who undergo cardiac transplantation clearly identify the primary cause...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(90)90056-4
更新日期:1990-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty for stenosis of the aorta was performed in 36 patients with Takayasu's arteritis (age range, 8 to 36 years; mean, 19.1 +/- 7.7 years). Balloon dilatation was successful in 34 patients and resulted in a decrease in the mean peak systolic pressure gradient (PSG) from 75.2 +/...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-8703(92)90967-z
更新日期:1992-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The presence of depression after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is associated with worse prognosis and lower adherence to risk-reducing behaviors. We reported earlier that an enhanced depression care intervention reduces depression symptoms and major adverse cardiac events. This study evaluates the impact ...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2012.07.024
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Tamoxifen has mixed estrogen agonist and antagonist properties in estrogen-regulated tissues. Its effect on the cardiovascular system is not well defined. We carried out a study to investigate the effect of tamoxifen on peripheral vascular endothelial function. METHODS:Three groups of postmenopausal women (...
journal_title:American heart journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1067/mhj.2001.117323
更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00