... self-reported questionnaire and each case was validated by cardiac ultrasound and/ or electrocardiographic examinations or by coronary angiography Table 1: Patient characteristics n Age (years) BMI (kg/m²) ... Tsybouleva N, Ballantyne CM, Gotto AM, Marian AJ Effects of PPARα, γ and δ haplotypes on plasma levels of lipids and progression ofcoronary atherosclerosis and response to statin therapy in the ... McMahon AD, Karpe F, Hamsten A, Packard CJ, Ehrenborg E Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor delta genotype in relation to cardiovascular risk factors and risk ofcoronaryheart disease...
... cooperated in the drafting of the manuscript and read and approved the final version of the manuscript Additional material Additional file All variables measured in the study A table showing all ... clopidogrel and ASA might indicate if a particular measure is dependent on ADP and/ or TXB2 There was a connection between ADP-induced platelet adhesion and ADP-induced activation measured by flow ... variable Thus, variables measured in both patients and controls (platelet adhesion and serum TXB2levels) consisted of data from three measurements on patients and two on controls All other variables...
... IA, Bajwa MA, Bhatti MR, Karim R: The translation and evaluation of an Urdu version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Acta Psychiatr Scand 1991, 83:81-85 Malasi TH, Mirza IA, el Islam ... exploratory factor analysis where no prior assumptions of structure are explicitly made Confirmatory factor analysis is a special case of structural equation modelling and is statistically and ... Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in German coronaryheartdisease patients Health Qual Life Outcomes 2005, 3:15 Martin CR, Lewin RJ, Thompson DR: A confirmatory factor analysis of the Hospital Anxiety...
... PN: pain; MH: mental health; VT: vitality Figure Bland-Altman plot of EQ-5D and SF-6D Bland-Altman plot of EQ-5D and SF-6D Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of ... relationships with out of SF-6Ddomains Only mood and mental health behave as expected, as they have a strong relationship with each other and lower correlations with all other domains The EQ-5D and ... health Both algorithms include an interaction term to account for an additional disutility in case one of the domains is scored at its most severe level Statistical analysis A qualitative assessment...
... Page of 13 Table 2: Summary of continuous variables in estimation and validation datasets Variable Estimation dataset sample size Validation dataset sample size Estimation dataset mean (SD) Validation ... http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/54 Page of 13 Table 3: Summary of categorical variables in estimation and validation datasets Variable Estimation dataset, n (%) Validation dataset, n (%) Mean (SD) EQ-5D (estimation dataset) ... [14] The dataset was then divided in two by taking a random sample of 60% of the data and separating that data from the remaining 40% to provide an estimation dataset anda validation dataset, respectively...
... Median 75 Interquartile range 0.28 62–94 0.99 * NYHA denotes New York Heart Association, CCS Canadian Cardiovascular Society, PTCA percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, and CABG coronary- artery ... main coronary artery disease (CAD) as compared with no clinically significant coronary artery diseaseon angiography which included 355 patients with stable coronary disease, showed that elevated ... Information on the causes of death was not available in our study, but other studies of patients with stable coronaryheartdiseaseand similar mortality rates have demonstrated that the chief causes...
... listing ofcoronaryheartdisease as the cause of death on the death certificate, and by the availability of evidence of previous coronaryheartdisease Those deaths in which coronaryheartdisease ... Low-Carbohydr ate-Diet Score andCoronaryHeartDisease ed22,26,27 and trans22,28-30 fats have been associated with an increased risk ofcoronaryheart disease, and polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats ... low-carbohydrate-diet score anda risk ofcoronaryheartdisease must take each macronutrient into consideration Different types of fat appear to have different effects on the risk ofcoronaryheartdisease In epidemiologic...
... case–control analyses Among participants who provided a blood sample and who were free of cardiovascular disease at baseline, 239 women and 265 men had a nonfatal myocardial infarction or fatal ... next of kin or the postal system Fatal coronaryheartdisease was confirmed by an examination of hospital or autopsy records, by the listing ofcoronaryheartdisease as the cause of death on the ... et al Markers of inflammation and cardiovascular disease: application to clinical and public health practice: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Centers for Disease Control and...
... in the case of its comparably potent standard care competitors – that is, the catecholamines noradrenaline and adrenaline – AVP may depress cardiac function as a result of impaired coronary blood ... that the AVP effects were unrelated to any modification of cardiac loading parameters and were completely absent in sham-operated animals Indrambarya and colleagues therefore elegantly demonstrate ... increased coronary artery perfusion pressure Indrambarya and colleagues now show that Page of (page number not for citation purposes) cardiac ischaemia may specifically contribute to (or even enhance?)...
... DD et al Report of the Committee on Standards and Criteria for Programs of Care of the Council of Rheumatic Fever and Congenital HeartDiseaseof American Heart Association Jones Criteria (modified) ... blood smear for acanthocytes), familial calcification of basal ganglia (MRI or CT scan may be helpful), ataxia telangiectasia, and Hallervorden-Spatz disease Use of oral contraceptives Pregnancy (chorea ... la Lotta alle Malattie Cardiovascolari, P le Santa Maria Misericordia, Udine, Italy Salah RA Zaher, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt (Co-Rapporteur)...
... WA 6008 Phone (08) 9388 3343 National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heartdisease ... National Heart Foundation of Australia Clinical Issues Commi�ee; National Heart Foundation of New Zealand; National Strategies Heart, Stroke and Vascular Group; Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... all populations The National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHFA) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) have identified several factors contributing to inadequate and management...
... (a) and lateral tunnel Fontan procedure (b) are variations of the classic intracardiac Fontan operation that are in common use today (a) Completion of an extracardiac Fontan procedure in a staged ... determination of the myocardial area at risk in the evaluation of the outcome of acute myocardial infarction in patients Circulation 1987;75:984–7 12 Scanlon PJ, Faxon DP, Audet AM, et al ACC/AHA guidelines ... greatly enlarged Opacification of the epicardial cardiac veins may be observed in late phases ofcoronary arteriograms The coronary arteriograms in Figs 1.38 and 1.39 illustrate the main cardiac...
... laboratory findings and results of intravascular ultrasonography Table summarizes laboratory values at baseline The efficacy variable “change in PAV” was calculat- and at the completion of the ... assessed by means of intravascular ultrasonography Univariate analysis revealed significant correlations between ultrasonographic measures ofdisease progression and laboratory measures of atherogenic ... Rosuvastatin therapy had no effect on the health status of patients, as assessed on the basis of New York Heart Association class and the McMaster Overall Treatment Evaluation question naire,...
... bị vết phổi cũ bronchietasis (dãn phế quản) Bs tim làm ECHO Treadmil thấy bất thường, bị ST thay đổi (ischemic change) Có vài PAC (premature atrial contractions) Khả chạy Treadmil 73% kêu mệt, ... tim đ a bệnh nhân vào bệnh viên thông tim (cardiac catheterization) để tìm hiểu độ co (ischemia) động mạch vành tim Kết cho thấy tâm thất trái chuyển động chậm, sức bơm máu (ejection fraction) ... mạch tim distal left main co nhỏ (stenosis), 70%, động mạch tim Ostial circumflex co nhỏ 90%, động mạch (Left Anterior Descending, LAD) co nhỏ 60%, động mạch ngành First diagonal branch co toàn...
... khí oxy đến thành tim (myocardium) Right coronary artery: Động mạch vành phải Left coronary artery: Động mạch vành trái Anterior interventricular artery: Động mạch gian tâm thất trước Các động ... thông qua mạng lưới động mạch đến tất mô thể Superior vena cava: tĩnh mạch chủ Aorta: động mạch chủ Right pulmonary veins: tĩnh mạch phổi phải Left pulmonary artery: động mạch phổi trái Right atrium: ... Xơ V a Động Mạch, có số bước ch a hoàn toàn thấu hiểu Right coronary artery: Động mạch vành phải Left anterior descending artery: Động mạch xuống ph a trước bên trái Plaque in artery wall: Mảng...
... late-onset cardiomyopathy and endocardial fibroelastosis Other possible manifestations such as sinus bradycardia or QTc interval prolongation are currently a matter of debate Cardiac malformations ... close monitoring, not only of ECG andof adequate functioning ofa pacemaker, but also of ventricular function Endocardial fibroelastosis The association of EFE with autoantibody-mediated CHB was ... 13:760 Cimaz R, Meroni PL, Brucato A, Fesstova VV, Panzeri P, Goulene K, Stramba-Badiale M: Concomitant disappearance of electrocardiographic abnormalities andof acquired maternal autoantibodies...
... hyperlipidemia in the model as covariates CABG, coronary artery bypass surgery; CAD, coronary artery disease; CI, confidence interval; CV, cardiovascular; HR, hazard ratio; MI, myocardial infarction; ... Number of diseased vessels, n (%) CAD, coronary artery disease; RA, rheumatoid arthritis duration was 17.6 years Approximately 90% of the cases were rheumatoid factor-positive and 53% had nodular disease ... was no difference between the two groups Characteristics of cases with RA and CAD Table includes characteristics of the patients with RA Average age at onset of RA was 55 years and the average...
... immunofixation electrophoresis method involving the use of Paragon Blue stain (Paragon; Beckman-Coulter, Brea, CA, USA) Statistical analyses Data are shown as the mean ± standard deviation Statistically ... development of additional paraproteins and/ or possible conversion into MM Erella, and the statistical assistance of Dr James Malley, Dr Karen Malley, and Dr Robert Wesley They thank Dr Sahar Dawisha, Dr ... 3), and both polyurethane and saline implants (n = 4) Two women with breast implants also had additional silicone implants (one had liquid silicone injections and one had bilateral cheek implants)...
... Fibromyalgia and related medically unexplained symptoms: a lost link between cardiovascular and nociception modulation? J Musculoskeletal Pain, in press Stewart J, Taneja I, Medow MS: Reduced central ... and cardiac output, and increased vascular resistance during static handgrip exercise in postural tachycardia syndrome Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2007, in press Loevinger BL, Muller D, Alonso ... BA, Bushnell MC: Accelerated brain gray matter loss in fibromyalgia patients: premature aging of the brain? J Neurosci 2007, 27:4004-4007 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ...
... preparation CPW and ELM participated in the study design, data acquisition and analysis, and in manuscript preparation PJE participated in data acquisition and in manuscript preparation All authors ... read and approved the final manuscript Additional files The following Additional files are available online: Additional file Word table that reports the assessment of quality of randomized controlled ... for citation purposes) Data abstraction and study validity Data were abstracted for the difference in FVC and DLCO predicted values between baseline and 12 months of therapy Available online...