Cardiology General
Jun 10, 2021
The influence of psychological stress on the physiology of the cardiovascular system, and on the etiology and outcomes of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been the object of intense investigation. As ...
Jun 10, 2021
Electrical storm is a life-threatening medical emergency that requires immediate diagnosis and treatment. It can remain a clinical challenge despite anti-arrhythmic drugs and catheter ablation therapi...
Jun 10, 2021
Background To identify associations between metabolic syndrome (MS) components and overactive bladder (OAB) in women. Methodology The present study was conducted prospectively between February 2021 an...
Jun 10, 2021
Blood pressure has decreased in the general population. We aimed to examine whether this is true also among the very old, and among persons with and without dementia. Further, we aimed to investigate ...
Jun 10, 2021
Low-quality ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) due to recurring artifacts may limit its clinical value. We evaluated the features and impact on BP control and patient management of ABPMs perf...
Jun 10, 2021
To evaluate whether different hypertension phenotypes, namely, isolated systolic hypertension (ISH), isolated diastolic hypertension (IDH) and systolic/diastolic hypertension (SDH) have a differential...
Jun 10, 2021
Hypertension constitutes a major risk factor for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). HFpEF is a prevalent clinical syndrome with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. S...
Jun 10, 2021
Hypertension, diabetes mellitus and physical inactivity can cause cardiovascular complications or premature death. However, it has not been clarified whether those major comorbidities and physical act...
Jun 10, 2021
To compare acute care utilization and costs following sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYBG).Comparing post-bariatric emergency department (ED) and inpatient care use patterns cou...
Jun 10, 2021
Despite recent achievements in secondary cardiovascular prevention, the risk of further events in patients with chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) remains elevated. Highest risk is seen in patients with...
Jun 10, 2021
Recent studies have demonstrated a key role of vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) dysfunction in atherosclerosis. Cyclin-dependent kinases 9 (CDK9), a potential biomarker of atherosclerosis, was signi...
Jun 10, 2021
Cellular senescence is linked to chronic age-related diseases including atherosclerosis, diabetes, and neurodegeneration. Compared to proliferating cells, senescent cells express distinct subsets of p...
Jun 10, 2021
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) guideline recommendation of comprehensive risk assessments, which classify patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension...
Jun 10, 2021
Mobile electrocardiographic (mECG) devices that record ECG lead I have been used to detect atrial fibrillation. Other arrhythmias may not be readily diagnosed with one lead. Obtaining multi‑lead tra...
Jun 10, 2021
Background There is limited evidence of long-term impact of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on clinical end points for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). We therefore compared 18-month...
Jun 07, 2021
“Obesity is an important comorbidity in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). While this is commonly assessed by BMI, BMI is a crude adiposity marker and provides no information on regional body fat distributi...
Jun 07, 2021
Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis (UE-DVT) is a common and increasing complication in hospitalized patients. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence, treatment strategies, compli...
Jun 07, 2021
The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of cancer in patients with superficial vein thrombosis (SVT) of the legs. Moreover, we aimed to evaluate the potential determinants of SVT co...
Jun 07, 2021
Intracranial artery dissection is an uncommon cause of acute ischemic stroke. Although acute stenting of the dissected arterial segment is a therapeutic option, the associated antiplatelet regimen rem...
Jun 07, 2021
Performing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for fractional flow reserve (FFR) positive coronary lesions improves clinical outcomes and is recommended by international guidelines. It has been h...