The minimal informative monitoring interval of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in patients with stable heart failure.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long term β-blocker therapy after myocardial infarction (MI) reduces mortality and recurrent MI but evidence for this treatment predates contemporary acute coronary care. β-blocker treatment is a key quality of care indicator in the Swedish national quality register for acute coronary care, Riks-HIA. Between...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Hagsund T,Olsson SE,Smith JG,Madsen Hardig B,Wagner H

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microvascular insufficiency plays an important role in the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM), therapeutic angiogenesis has been mainly used for the treatment of ischemic diseases. This study sought to verify the preclinical performance of SonoVue microbubbles (MB) combined ultrasound (US) treatmen...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Zhang X,Tian X,Li P,Zhu H,Zhou N,Fang Z,Yang Y,Jing Y,Yuan J

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More than one third of adult population in Estonia has problems with elevated blood pressure (BP). The Hypertension in Estonia (HYPEST) study represents the country's first hypertension-targeted sample collection aiming to examine the epidemiological and genetic determinants for hypertension (HTN) and relate...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Org E,Veldre G,Viigimaa M,Juhanson P,Putku M,Rosenberg M,Tomberg K,Uuetoa T,Laan M

更新日期：2011-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of registry studies have reported suboptimal adherence to guidelines for cardiovascular prevention during the first year after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, only a few studies have addressed long-term secondary prevention after AMI. This study evaluates prevention guideline adherence a...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Ergatoudes C,Thunström E,Rosengren A,Björck L,Bengtsson Boström K,Falk K,Fu M

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute allograft rejection is a major cause of early mortality in the first year after heart transplantation in adults. Although endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is not a perfect "gold standard" for a correct diagnosis of acute allograft rejection, it is considered the best available test and thus, is the current ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Doering LV,Hickey K,Pickham D,Chen B,Drew BJ

更新日期：2012-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have developed a rat cell model for studying collagen type I production in coronary artery adventitial fibroblasts. Increased deposition of adventitial collagen type I leads to stiffening of the blood vessel, increased blood pressure, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Although the source and me...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Jenkins C,Milsted A,Doane K,Meszaros G,Toot J,Ely D

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In adults, impaired myocardial repolarization and increased risk of arrhythmia are known consequences of open heart surgery. Little is known, however, about post-operative consequences of cardiopulmonary bypass surgery in children. The aim of this study was to assess ventricular repolarization and coronary p...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Aburawi EH,Souid AK,Liuba P,Zoubeidi T,Pesonen E

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is uncertain whether gender differences in outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are only attributable to different baseline characteristics or additional factors. METHODS:Databases of two German myocardial infarction network registries were combined with a total of 1104 consecut...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Birkemeyer R,Schneider H,Rillig A,Ebeling J,Akin I,Kische S,Paranskaya L,Jung W,Ince H,Nienaber CA

更新日期：2014-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timely restoration of bloodflow acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) reduces myocardial damage and improves prognosis. The objective of this study was describe the association of demographic factors with hospitalisation rates for STEMI and time to angiography, Percutaneous Coronary Interv...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Taylor LK,Nelson MA,Gale M,Trevena J,Brieger DB,Winch S,Cretikos MA,Newman LA,Phung HN,Faddy SC,Kelly PM,Chant K

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart failure is a major and growing medical and economic problem worldwide as 1-2% of the healthcare budget are spent for heart failure. The prevalence of heart failure has increased over the past decades and it is expected that there will be further raise due to the higher proportion of elderly in the west...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Lesyuk W,Kriza C,Kolominsky-Rabas P

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thyroid hormones deeply influence the cardiovascular system; however, the association between the fT3/fT4 ratio and the clinical outcome in euthyroid patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not well defined. Therefore, the present study aimed to ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Yu T,Tian C,Song J,He D,Wu J,Wen Z,Sun Z,Sun Z

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factors affecting heart rate variability (HRV) in patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) have not been clarified. This study sought to identify those factors and establish a preliminary risk model. METHODS:A total of 154 patients with ASD who underwent transcatheter closure and met the study requirements ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Su Z,Cao Q,Zhang H,Sun W,Zhang H,Sheng Y,Yang R,Kong X

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tobacco smoke is one of the most significant risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and damages in the myocardial tissue directly. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has been used and is a promising tool to evaluate morphometry and cardiac function in humans. The objective of this study was to evaluate assoc...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Batista ANR,Garcia T,Franco EAT,Azevedo PS,Barbosa MF,Zornoff LAM,Minicucci MF,de Paiva SAR,Zucchi JW,de Godoy I,Tanni SE

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of hypertensives may be influenced by blood pressure, adverse effects of drugs used to treat hypertension, or other factors, such as the labelling effect, or beliefs and attitudes about illness and treatment. There is paucity of information on the determinants of HR...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Ogunlana MO,Adedokun B,Dairo MD,Odunaiya NA

更新日期：2009-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated the associations among angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism, ACE activity and post-myocardial infarction (MI) left ventricular dysfunction and acute heart failure (AHF) early after presentation with MI with ST-segment elevation (STEMI). METHODS:A total ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Parenica J,Goldbergova MP,Kala P,Jarkovsky J,Poloczek M,Manousek J,Prymusova K,Kubkova L,Tomcikova D,Toman O,Tesak M,Tomandl J,Vasku A,Spinar J

更新日期：2010-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have found a connection between left coronary artery dominance and worse prognoses in patient with acute coronary syndrome, which remains a predominant cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The aim of this study was to investigate whether coronary dominance is associated with the incide...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Wang L,Li J,Gao Y,Li R,Zhang J,Su D,Wang T,Yang G,Wang X

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes is one of the major risk factors for cardiomyopathy and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (EF) and highly associated with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in human. This study aimed 1) to noninvasively assess cardiac function using echocardiography; 2) to test the hypothesis that like di...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Gu H,Liu Y,Mei S,Wang B,Sun G,Wang X,Xiao Y,Staup M,Gregoire FM,Chng K,Wang YJ

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Swallow or deglutition syncope is an unusual type of neurally-mediated syncope associated with life-threatening bradyarrhythmia and hypotension. It is a difficult condition to diagnose with commonly delayed diagnosis and management. There is lack of review articles that elucidate the basic demographics, clin...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Siew KSW,Tan MP,Hilmi IN,Loch A

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ICDs efficiently terminate life-threatening arrhythmias, but complications occur during long-term follow-up. Patients' own perspective is largely unknown. The aim of the study was to describe experiences of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients with implantable defibrillators (ICDs). METHODS:We analyze...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Magnusson P,Jonsson J,Mörner S,Fredriksson L

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart failure (HF) remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Multiple trials over the past several years have examined the effects of both angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) in the treatment of left ventricular dysfunction, both acutely ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Tai C,Gan T,Zou L,Sun Y,Zhang Y,Chen W,Li J,Zhang J,Xu Y,Lu H,Xu D

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atherosclerosis is a chronic progressive disease often presenting as clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. This study evaluated the characteristics of individuals with a diagnosis of atherosclerosis and estimated the incidence of CVD events to assist in the early identification of high-risk individua...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Robinson JG,Fox KM,Bullano MF,Grandy S,SHIELD Study Group.

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High blood glucose impairs voltage-gated K+ (Kv) channel-mediated vasodilation in rat coronary artery smooth muscle cells (CSMCs) via oxidative stress. Advanced glycation end product (AGE) and receptor for AGE (RAGE) axis has been found to impair coronary dilation by reducing Kv channel activity in diabetic ...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Gao S,Hua B,Liu Q,Liu H,Li W,Li H

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transradial access (TRA) has been considered as the default choice in cardiac catheterization. Although infrequent, vascular complications of this approach remain. Recently, the distal transradial approach (dTRA) in cardiac catheterization was reported by interventionalists. METHODS:We retrieved the relevan...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Cai G,Huang H,Li F,Shi G,Yu X,Yu L

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2014 ACC/AHA guidelines redefined the strategy for LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) treatment. According to data from evidence-based studies, the basis for earlier therapeutic recommendations for LDL-C target levels (2.6 and 1.8 mmol/L) may be disputed, and only the data for the percent LDL-C reduction are object...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Császár A

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exercise-based spectral T-wave alternans (TWA) has been proposed as a noninvasive tool-identifying patients at risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and cardiac mortality. Prior studies have indicated that ambulatory electrocardiogram (AECG)-based TWA is an important alternative platform to exercise for risk st...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Quan XQ,Zhou HL,Ruan L,Lv JG,Yao JH,Yao F,Huang K,Zhang CT

更新日期：2014-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between the ejection fraction (EF) and the mitral annular systolic velocity (Sm) in patients with preserved left ventricular systolic function (EF>55%). The study task was to evaluate whether the assessment of Sm(avg) can be used as an alternative to t...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Daskalov IR,Daskalova IK,Demirevska LD,Atzev BG

更新日期：2013-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is apparent that despite lack of family history, patients with the morphological characteristics of left ventricular non-compaction develop arrhythmias, thrombo-embolism and left ventricular dysfunction. METHODS:Forty two patients, aged 48.7 +/- 2.3 yrs (mean +/- SEM) underwent cardiovascular magnetic re...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Yousef ZR,Foley PW,Khadjooi K,Chalil S,Sandman H,Mohammed NU,Leyva F

更新日期：2009-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Areca nut (commonly known as betel nut) chewing has been shown to be associated with metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The mechanism by which betel nut ingestion could lead to development of CVD is not precisely known; however, dyslipidemia, hyperhomocysteinemia, hypertriglyceridemia and i...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Iqbal MP,Mehboobali N,Haider G,Pervez S,Azam I

更新日期：2012-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated plasma triglycerides (TGs) are widely used as a major cardiovascular risk predictor and are thought to play an important role in the progression of coronary heart disease (CHD). It has been demonstrated that lipid lowering was associated with lower mortality in patients with CHD. The present study t...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Bogari NM,Aljohani A,Amin AA,Al-Allaf FA,Dannoun A,Taher MM,Elsayed A,Rednah DI,Elkhatee O,Porqueddu M,Alamanni F,Khogeer SAA,Fawzy A

更新日期：2019-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Certain conditions characterised by blood vessel occlusion or vascular spasm have been found to cluster together in epidemiological studies. However the biological causes for these associations remain controversial. This study used a classical twin design to examine whether these conditions are linked throug...

journal_title：BMC cardiovascular disorders

authors： Williams FM,Cherkas LF,Spector TD,MacGregor AJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00