Interview: Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director of the BHF. [PDF]
Dr James Rudd, Heart’s Digital Media Editor, interviewed Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation (BHF), in May 2016. As the largest independent funder of cardiovascular research in the UK (around £100 million annually),
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Cardiovascular disease is a major, growing, worldwide problem. It is important that individuals at risk of developing cardiovascular disease can be effectively identified and appropriately stratified according to risk. This review examines what we understand by the term risk, traditional and novel risk factors, clinical scoring systems, and the use of ...
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Investigation of Prevalence of cardiovascular involvement in patients with Covid-19 disease admitted to Afzalipour Hospital in Kerman in 2019-2020 [PDF]
Background : Covid-19 can acute cardiovascular syndrome. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of cardiovascular involvement in patients with Covid-19 disease .Methods:All patients who were diagnosed with Covid-19 disease and were ...
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Cardiovascular regeneration [PDF]
Heart disease remains the number one cause of death in developed countries. Loss of cardiomyocytes (CMs) due to aging or pathophysiological conditions (for example, myocardial infarction) is generally considered irreversible, and can lead to lethal conditions from cardiac arrhythmias to heart failure.
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Background Dual antithrombotic treatment (DAT) with clopidogrel and rivaroxaban sometimes is prescribed to cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at risk of thromboembolism.
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Continued efforts to translate diabetes cardiovascular outcome trials into clinical practice [PDF]
Diabetic patients suffer from a high rate of cardiovascular events and such risk increases with HbA1c. However, lowering HbA1c does not appear to yield the same benefit on macrovascular endpoints, as observed for microvascular endpoints. As the number of
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Examining the role of insulin in the regulation of cardiovascular health [PDF]
A substantial body of evidence has reported that insulin has direct actions on the cardiovascular system independent of its systemic effects on plasma glucose or lipids.
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Effect of a reduction in glomerular filtration rate after nephrectomy on arterial stiffness and central hemodynamics: rationale and design of the EARNEST study [PDF]
Background: There is strong evidence of an association between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular disease. To date, however, proof that a reduction in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a causative factor in cardiovascular disease is ...
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Cardiovascular diseases are the most common diseases threatening the health of the elderly, and the incidence and mortality rates associated with cardiovascular diseases remain high and are increasing gradually. Studies on the treatment and prevention of
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Self-reported health and cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress in a large community sample: Cross-sectional and prospective associations [PDF]
Exaggerated cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress have been implicated in a number of adverse health outcomes. This study examined, in a large community sample, the cross-sectional and prospective associations between reactivity and ...
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