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Heart Health Begins With Community: Community-Based Research Exploring Innovative Strategies to Support First Nations Heart Health

CJC Open, 2023
Background: Indigenous people have displayed their strength through their holistic practices and spiritual connection to the land. Despite overcoming the impact of discriminatory and disempowering policies within Western institutions, Indigenous people ...
Sahr Wali, PhD, Justice Seidel, MIR, Greg Spence, Lynne Innes, BScN, MN, MBA, Elaine Innes, BScN, MD, Anne Simard, MHSc, Angela Mashford-Pringle, PhD, Isaac Ssinabulya, MBChB, MMed, Joseph A. Cafazzo, PhD, Peng, Heather Ross, MD, MHSc, FRCPC   +9 more
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Racism and Cardiology: A Global Call to Action

CJC Open, 2021
Racism and racial bias influence the lives and cardiovascular health of minority individuals. The fact that minority groups tend to have a higher burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors is often a result of racist policies that restrict ...
Shrilla Banerjee, MD, FRCP, F. Aaysha Cader, MD, MRCP, Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, FESC, Quinn Capers, IV, MD, FACC   +3 more
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Montreal-FH-SCORE Predicts Coronary Artery Calcium Score in Patients With Familial Hypercholesterolemia

CJC Open, 2021
Background: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a monogenic disease characterized by a high concentration of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
Sarah Béland-Bonenfant, MD, Martine Paquette, MSc, Manon Fantino, BSc, Lucienne Bourque, Nathalie Saint-Pierre, MSc, Alexis Baass, MD, MSc, Sophie Bernard, MD, PhD   +6 more
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Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Parents of Short Children Born Small for Gestational Age [PDF]

Pediatric Research, 2008
Small for gestational age (SGA) children have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors at a young age. It is not known whether this increased risk is caused by their size at birth, a familial predisposition for cardiovascular disease or smallness at birth or a combination of these factors.
Kort, Sandra, van Dijk, M, Willemsen, Ruben, Ester, WA (Wietske), Viet, L, de Rijke, Yolanda, Hokken - Koelega, Anita   +6 more
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Risk ratio and rate ratio estimation in case‐cohort designs: Hypertension and cardiovascular mortality [PDF]

Statistics in Medicine, 1993
AbstractMultivariate analysis in case‐base designs depends on approximate methods. In the present study, new pseudo‐likelihood methods are developed for this design. With these methods, the case‐cohort risk ratio and rate ratio as well as their standard errors are easily estimated using logistic regression and Poisson regression, respectively.
Schouten, E.G., Dekker, J.M., Kok, F.J., le Cessie, S., van Houwelingen, H.C., Pool, J., Vandenbroucke, J.P.   +6 more
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Angiographically Patent Saphenous Vein Graft to Left Anterior Descending Artery at 51 Years Post-Coronary Artery Bypass GraftingNovel Teaching Points

CJC Open, 2022
We describe an unusual case of an angiographically patent saphenous vein graft to the left anterior descending artery at 51 years post coronary artery bypass grafting surgery in a patient who presents with exertional dyspnea and only relatively recent ...
Rahul Kurup, MBBS, PhD, Kumar Sridhar, MD   +1 more
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The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance ATLAS on the Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women—Chapter 2: Scope of the Problem

CJC Open, 2021
Background: This Atlas chapter summarizes the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women in Canada, discusses sex and gender disparities, and examines the intersectionality between sex and other factors that play a prominent role in CVD ...
Shahin Jaffer, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Heather J.A. Foulds, PhD, Monica Parry, PhD, MEd, MSc, NP-Adult, CCN(C), Christine A. Gonsalves, PhD, Christine Pacheco, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Marie-Annick Clavel, DVM, PhD, FAHA, Kerri A. Mullen, PhD, MSc, Cindy Y.Y. Yip, PhD, Sharon L. Mulvagh, MD, FRCPC, FACC, FASE, FAHA, Colleen M. Norris, PhD, GNP, MSc, BScN, FAHA, FCAHS   +9 more
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Prevention and Management of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention-Related Complications: Assessing the Impact of Simulation-Based Learning and Human Factors Training. [PDF]

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
ABSTRACT Background Complications of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remain infrequent but are associated with a risk of serious injury or death. The techniques and devices required to manage them may be unfamiliar or unavailable to operators.
Fukamizu J, MacCarthy T, Shimizu I, Ariura S, Tanetani R, Arahira S, Tamura M, Masamune K, Mahadevan K, Chandramohan N, Hovasse T, Monsegu J, Nolan J, Kefer J, Musialek P, Oberhoff M, Haude M, Benamer H, Muller O, Calvert PA, Sumitsuji S, O'Kane P, Toth G, Cuisset T, Wijns W, Johnson TW.   +25 more
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Chocolat noir ou chocolat blanc? Le cacao et la santé cardiovasculaire [PDF]

, 2010
Epidemiological data show that a regular dietary intake of plant-derived foods reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. Recent research indeed demonstrates interesting data about cocoa consumption, with high concentrations of polyphenols, and ...
Corti, R, Flammer, A J, Noll, G, Perdrix, J   +3 more
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The Effect of Biological Sex on Arterial Stiffness and Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Activity in Response to Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) Inhibition

CJC Open, 2023
Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally. Cyclooxygenase (COX)-derived prostaglandins play an important role in cardiovascular health regulation.
Chantal L. Rytz, MSc, Sandra M. Dumanski, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Darlene Y. Sola, BScN, RN, Sofia B. Ahmed, MD, MMSc, FRCPC   +3 more
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