Drinking and coronary heart disease: the Albany Study.

abstract：:The QRS complex and ST segment in the ECGs of 80 patients who died of an acute myocardial infarction (MI) were studied in relation to the extent of the MI (subendocardial vs. transmural). Changes in the QRS complex developed in nine out of the 15 cases with an acute subendocardial MI. Five of these cases fulfilled the...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Raunio H,Rissanen V,Romppanen T,Jokinen Y,Rehnberg S,Helin M,Pyörälä K

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angina pectoris before and after MI was evaluated in a sample of 729 men and women from a general population in whom MI developed during a 36-year period of follow-up. Relations of AP to subsequent CHD events and mortality after initial MI were analyzed by proportional hazards regression models and were adjusted for c...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Brand FN,Larson M,Friedman LM,Kannel WB,Castelli WP

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine cardiac stress is widely used as an alternative to exercise testing during myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Dyspnea often accompanies the adenosine stress test. Although known asthmatic patients are excluded from this test because of the danger of bronchospasm, there is incomplete information re...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Balan KK,Critchley M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiarrhythmic drugs are often more effective in suppressing ventricular tachycardias than are background premature extrasystoles. The mechanism of action of these agents was examined by studies on the effects of lidocaine and quinidine on post-repolarization refractoriness of both basic and premature action potential...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Nakaya Y,Nii H,Nomura M,Fujino K,Mori H

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has been shown that early cardiac rejection can be visualized by radioimmunoscintigraphy targeting major histocompatibility complex class II antigen, the use of antibodies that bind to a polymorphic determinant of class II antigen has certain disadvantages for clinical application. This investigation was d...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Isobe M,Southern JF,Yazaki Y

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the mechanisms involved in nitrate tolerance, we randomized 23 patients with congestive heart failure resulting from coronary artery disease to an isosorbide dinitrate or a molsidomine infusion. The drugs were titrated to decrease pulmonary capillary wedge pressure by > or = 30% or > or = 10 mm Hg. Then is...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Unger P,Vachiery JL,de Cannière D,Staroukine M,Berkenboom G

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients remain at high risk for recurrent events. Cholesterol efflux, mediated by apolipoprotein A-I, removes excess cholesterol from atherosclerotic plaque and transports it to the liver for excretion. Impaired cholesterol efflux is associated with higher cardiovascular (CV) event ra...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Gibson CM,Kastelein JJP,Phillips AT,Aylward PE,Yee MK,Tendera M,Nicholls SJ,Pocock S,Goodman SG,Alexander JH,Lincoff AM,Bode C,Duffy D,Heise M,Berman G,Mears SJ,Tricoci P,Deckelbaum LI,Steg PG,Ridker P,Mehran R

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-seven patients with isolated ventricular septal defect (VSD) operated on in the first 5 years of life, that had a mean interval of 10 months between diagnostic catheterization and surgery, were studied retrospectively. The size of the VSD was correlated with diagnostic catheterization data and comparative analy...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Yasui H,Yoshitoshi M,Miyamoto AT,Kato H,Takeda Y

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The American Heart Association recommends women with congenital heart defects (CHD) receive contraceptive counseling early in their reproductive years, but little is known about contraceptive method use among women with CHD. We describe recent female sterilization and reversible prescription contraceptive me...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Anderson KN,Tepper NK,Downing K,Ailes EC,Abarbanell G,Farr SL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Familial dilated cardiomyopathy (FDCM) is attributed to defects in cytoskeletal proteins, and different patterns of inheritance and phenotypic expressions according to assorted-protein modifications have been identified to date. We describe a clinical family study with 24 individuals in 3 generations affecte...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Oropeza ES,Cadena CN

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes, often cluster in the same individuals. It has been claimed that obesity, hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance, and a deranged intracellular handling of ions have pathogenetic importance in the development of this metabolic syndrome....

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Lind L,Lithell H

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is accepted as a causal risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). However, most of the evidence for this hypothesis is based upon cohort studies in whites, comprised of either only males or females who live in urban areas. It is possible that many estimates of th...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Loop MS,McClure LA,Levitan EB,Al-Hamdan MZ,Crosson WL,Safford MM

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen patients who arrived between 6 and 24 hours after the onset of acute myocardial infarction and who were found to have totally occluded coronary arteries, received aspirin, heparin, and tissue plasminogen activator given over 3 hours. Eight patients were randomly assigned to receive intravenous prostaglandin E1...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Kleiman NS,Tracy RP,Schaaff LJ,Harris S,Hill RD,Puleo P,Roberts R

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial pacing-induced changes in the sum of R-wave amplitude were measured in leads V5, X, Y, and Z at rates of 100 bpm (phase I), 150 bpm (phase II), and immediately after pacing (phase III) in 33 patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for evaluation of chest pain. Seventeen (51%) patients showed evidence of isc...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： David D,Kitchen JG 3rd,Michelson EL,Naito M,Sawin HS,Chen CC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the incidence of residual atrial septal perforation (ASP) following percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) with the Inoue balloon catheter and to examine the factors contributing to ASP, we studied 46 patients with mitral stenosis undergoing PTMC. Residual ASP was evaluated by Doppler color ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ishikura F,Nagata S,Yasuda S,Yamashita N,Miyatake K

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the study was to assess and compare the safety of antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) in an unselected real-world population of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS AND RESULTS:This is a study of all patients with diagnosed AF in the Swedish Patient register who filled a prescription for sotalol, ami...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Friberg L

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin, in addition to its known metabolic effects, has sympatho-excitatory and vasodilatory actions on muscular blood vessels. The goal of this study was to evaluate insulin sensitivity in young women with vasovagal syncope and positive tilt test results (HUT+) and to compare it with that in patients with ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ruiz GA,Calvar C,Hermes R,Rivadeneira D,Bengolea V,Chirife R,Tentori MC,Gelpi RJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peak exercise oxygen consumption (peak VO2) is an important discriminator of survival in patients with systolic heart failure and is used to select ambulatory patients for transplantation. The major trials assessing the relationship between peak VO2 and survival have used a variety of low-level exercise prot...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Strzelczyk TA,Cusick DA,Pfeifer PB,Bondmass MD,Quigg RJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three landmark trials involving 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) were published between 1994 and 1996 (the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study [4S], the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study, and the Cholesterol and Recurrent Events trial). These trials provided e...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Wang TJ,Stafford RS,Ausiello JC,Chaisson CE

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between coronary artery size and left ventricular (LV) muscle mass was studied in 10 control subjects and in 10 patients with chronic mitral regurgitation before and 28 +/- 15 months after mitral valve surgery. Left and right coronary artery size was determined by quantitative coronary arteriography. ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Vassalli G,Hess OM,Krogmann ON,Villari B,Corin WJ,Turina M,Krayenbuehl HP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channel blockers and central alpha-agonists are among the classes of antihypertensive drugs that yield the most favorable overall effects on risk factors for hypertension-related end-organ damage. An open-label prospective trial in 42 patients with a mean baseline blood pressure of 144/102 mm Hg sought to asse...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Houston MC,Hays L

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was designed to determine if vertically transmitted HIV infection and maternal infection with HIV are associated with altered cardiovascular structure and function in utero. METHODS:Fetal echocardiography was performed in 173 fetuses of 169 HIV-infected mothers (mean gestational age, 33.0 weeks; ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Hornberger LK,Lipshultz SE,Easley KA,Colan SD,Schwartz M,Kaplan S,Starc TJ,Ayres NA,Lai WW,Moodie DS,Kasten-Sportes C,Sanders SP

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depression is a common comorbidity associated with ischemic heart disease (IHD). There is growing evidence that psychological stress in general and depression in particular predispose to cardiovascular disease. Persons who have mental stress during daily life are at twice the risk of myocardial ischemia, and pat...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： O'connor CM,Gurbel PA,Serebruany VL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen free radical scavengers have been found to decrease infarct size in dogs subjected to myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. A baboon open-chest model was used to determine if superoxide dismutase (SOD), an oxygen free radical scavenger, together with catalase would be equally effective in subhuman primates (b...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Watanabe BI,Premaratne S,Limm W,Mugiishi MM,McNamara JJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiologic characteristics of the denervated human heart were assessed in 14 cardiac transplant recipients. Conduction intervals and refractory periods were measured at pacing cycle lengths of 500 msec and 400 msec. The faster pacing rate caused lengthening of the AH interval (83 +/- 23 msec to 116 +/- 41 ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Bexton RS,Nathan AW,Hellestrand KJ,Cory-Pearce R,Spurrell RA,English TA,Camm AJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In older patients (70 ± 7 years) with chronic well-compensated heart failure with preserved ejection and controlled blood pressure, 6 months treatment with aliskiren (direct renin inhibitor) showed non-significant trends for modest improvements in peak exercise oxygen consumption (14.9 ± 0.2 mL kg-1 min-1 versus 14.4 ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Upadhya B,Brubaker PH,Morgan TM,Eggebeen JD,Jao GT,Stewart KP,Kitzman DW

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenoldopam mesylate (SK&F 82526-J) is a novel benzazepine derivative. It has selective agonist activity at post-junctional (DA1) vascular dopaminergic receptors, which normally subserve renal artery vasodilation. Previous studies in normal subjects and in patients with hypertension indicate that fenoldopam increases r...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Francis GS,Wilson BC,Rector TS

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure is a common finding in patients following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. In the literature SVG failure rates have been reported from 25 to over 50% within 10 years. Although common, it remains unclear to what extent SVG failure affects clinical outcome, due to differenc...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Harskamp RE,Williams JB,Hill RC,de Winter RJ,Alexander JH,Lopes RD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) and double outlet right ventricle (DORV) with normally related great arteries and normal ventricular sizes are associated with a good long-term prognosis after biventricular (BV) repair. The outcome of cases with a borderline small left ventricle (bLV) is unclear. The pu...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Pitkänen OM,Hornberger LK,Miner SE,Mondal T,Smallhorn JF,Jaeggi E,Nield LE

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large proportion of patients with heart failure (HF) have a large and poorly contracting left ventricle. The noninvasive recognition of the ischemic etiology of such patients is difficult, and for this purpose, usually patients undergo coronary angiography. It has been shown that cardiovascular magnetic re...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Casolo G,Minneci S,Manta R,Sulla A,Del Meglio J,Rega L,Gensini G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00