Apr 20, 2020

Prediction of outcome after stroke may help clinicians provide effective management and plan long-term care. We aimed to develop and validate a score for predicting good functional outcome available f...

Apr 20, 2020

Antiplatelet agents reduce liver fibrosis by inhibiting platelet activation and platelet-derived growth factor production. Previous cross-sectional epidemiological studies suggest that the use of aspi...

Apr 20, 2020

The spectrum of ischemic heart diseases, encompassing acute myocardial infarction to heart failure, represents the leading cause of death worldwide. Although extensive progress in cardiovascular diagn...

Apr 20, 2020

Stem cell (SC) therapy is a promising approach to improve post-myocardial infarction (MI) cardiac remodeling, but the proinflammatory microenvironment may lead to SC loss and, therefore, may have a ne...

Apr 20, 2020

Many studies evaluating the effect of intragastric botulinum toxin type A injection (IG-BTxA) for the treatment of obesity have been published. However, none of these studies combined this procedure w...

Apr 20, 2020

Hematopoietic cell infusion-related adverse events (HCI-AEs) in hematopoietic stem cell transplantations (HSCTs) have been largely attributed to toxicity of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) for cryopreservat...

Apr 20, 2020

Current Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guidelines use a specific aldosterone/renin ratio (ARR) threshold to screen for primary aldosteronism (a treatable disease causing up to 15% of hypertension...

Apr 20, 2020

To evaluate the variation in parameters of hepatic function and in the scores Fatty Liver Index (FLI; predictor of hepatic steatosis) and BARD (BMI, AST/ALT ratio and DM, predictor of hepatic fibrosis...

Apr 20, 2020

Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor, was shown in the DAPA-HF study to reduce the risk of worsening heart failure or death in symptomatic patients with left ejection fraction < 4...

Apr 20, 2020

Hyperlipidaemia is a common phenomenon in diabetes mellitus. Fenofibrate (FF) is a good candidate for the treatment of lipid abnormalities in patients with type 2 diabetes. But the bioavailability as ...

Apr 20, 2020

Fast-acting insulin aspart (faster aspart) is a novel formulation of insulin aspart (IAsp) ensuring ultra-fast absorption and effect.To compare the pharmacokinetics between faster aspart and IAsp, bas...

Apr 20, 2020

The following chapter is focused on the impact of comorbidities on the effectiveness of vaccination in older persons. Relevant comorbidities are cardiovascular diseases like hypertension, coronary art...

Apr 20, 2020

Environmental noise exposure has been associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Recently, noise annoyance was shown to induce atrial fibrillation, which was accompanied by sign...

Apr 20, 2020

Patients with cancer are at risk for unplanned hospitalizations during treatment which can increase the cost of care.To determine demographic and clinical factors associated with healthcare utilizatio...

Apr 20, 2020

Healed coronary plaques, morphologically characterized by a layered pattern, are signatures of previous plaque disruption and healing. Recent optical coherence tomography (OCT) studies showed that lay...

Apr 20, 2020

Adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) therapies are emerging as a promising approach to therapeutic angiogenesis. Therapeutic persistence and reduced primitive stem cell function following cell delivery...

Apr 20, 2020

The primary objective of this study was to ascertain the reasons for emergency department (ED) attendance among patients with a history of atrial fibrillation (AF).Appropriate ED attendance was define...

Apr 20, 2020

The new United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) donor heart allocation system gives priority to patients supported with nondischargeable mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices while awaiting hea...

Apr 20, 2020

Ecological studies show association between antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and inappropriate oral antibiotics use. Moderating antibiotic prescribing requires an understanding of all drivers of local ...

Apr 20, 2020

There is a paucity of data on cardiovascular disease (CVD) among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in resource-limited countries. We assessed factors associated with CVD and the impact of prevalent CVD o...