Mar 18, 2020

Obesity is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus and insulin resistance (IR). In the state of obesity, excess fat accumulates in the liver, a key organ in systemic metabolism, altering the ...

Mar 18, 2020

Nitroxyl (HNO), one-electron reduced and protonated sibling of nitric oxide (NO), is a potential regulator of cardiovascular functions. It produces positive inotropic, lusitropic, myocardial anti-hype...

Mar 18, 2020

Observational studies show that longer breastfeeding periods reduce maternal risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, it is currently unknown if the long-term benefits of breastfeeding for maternal ...

Mar 18, 2020

Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is a visceral fat deposit, that's known for its association with factors, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, age, and hypertension. Segmentation of the EAT in a fast a...

Mar 18, 2020

The Oncotype DX® (ODX) is a genomic assay that provides clinicians with a prediction of benefit of chemotherapy in node-negative, tamoxifen-treated breast cancer. However, the relationship between OD...

Mar 18, 2020

Pyroptosis is a form of cell death that is uniquely dependent on caspase-1. Pyroptosis involved in oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL)-induced human macrophage death through promotion of caspase...

Mar 18, 2020

Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) is a proangiogenic factor that mediates inflammation and atherosclerosis. We evaluated the predictive value of circulating Ang-2 levels for periprocedural myocardial injury (PMI...

Mar 18, 2020

Traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, such as hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes do not explain the increased CVD burden in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The oxidized-LDL r...

Mar 18, 2020

Exercise training (ET) helps treat atherosclerosis. However, many patients stop regular ET for various reasons. The effect of detraining on atherosclerosis is not well studied. We examined the effects...

Mar 18, 2020

Higher statin intensity is associated with a lower risk of mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease. However, little is known about the relationship between statin intensity and chronic kidne...

Mar 18, 2020

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) often coexists with atrial fibrillation (AF) and makes the course of AF worse. The negative impact of OSA on AF may be due to atrial stretch, hypoxia, hypertension, obesi...

Mar 18, 2020

The majority of patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) are admitted to internal medicine (IM) rather than to cardiology (CA) units, but to date few studies have analyzed the characteristics of t...

Mar 18, 2020

WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Diabetes screening practices vary widely and are only partially explained by patient, provider, and clinic factors, according to a study published online ...

Mar 16, 2020

MONDAY, March 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Many people are changing their behaviors in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new survey conducted by researchers at the Center for Economic and...

Mar 12, 2020

Postoperative ileus (POI) is a complex phenomenon with important morbidity and mortality, well known in many surgical fields. POI occurs commonly after abdominal and pelvic surgery, especially in canc...

Mar 12, 2020

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an essential role in multitudinous physiological and pathological processes, including vascular disease. We previously showed that lncRNA (enst00000511042) is upre...

Mar 12, 2020

The aim of the present study is to investigate the clinical features of patients with Behcet's disease (BD) in Mongolia.Patients were identified and examined from six medical institutions in Mongolia ...

Mar 12, 2020

Sorafenib is acknowledged as the standard therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) but in the clinical practice the treatment of these patients is extremely complex and needs to be personal...

Mar 12, 2020

The Marburg I polymorphism (G511E) in gene was listed as one of the risk factor for idiopathic DVT among the western population. The frequency of Marburg I polymorphism in India is presently not know...

Mar 12, 2020

The etiology and pathophysiology of coronary artery ectasia (CAE) has not been fully elucidated. A rapid rise in plasma copeptin has been observed in cardiovascular diseases, stroke, sepsis, and shock...