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Surveillance and evaluation data resource guide for heart disease and stroke prevention programs [PDF]

High blood pressure, high sodium intake, high cholesterol, and smoking continue to put more people at risk of heart disease and stroke. To address these risk factors, the CDC focuses on the ABCS of heart disease and stroke prevention\u2014appropriate ...

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Profile of soluble cell adhesion molecules as potential biomarkers in the cardiac stages of chronic Chagas disease

Frontiers in Immunology
Chagas cardiomyopathy is the most severe chronic manifestation and leading cause of mortality in the disease. Chronic inflammation, resulting from persistent infection by T.
Victor Vaitkevicius-Antão, Bruno Almeida Silva, Michelle da Silva Barros, Cíntia Nascimento da Costa-Oliveira, Byannca de Carvalho Torreão, Ana Carla da Silva, Silvia Marinho Martins, Cristina Carrazone, Wilson Oliveira, Carolina de Araújo Medeiros, Michelle Christiane da Silva Rabello, Virginia Maria Barros de Lorena   +11 more
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Chronic Chagas Heart Disease Management

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2017
Edimar Alcides Bocchi, Reinaldo Bulgarelli Bestetti, Mauricio Ibrahim Scanavacca, Edecio Cunha Neto, Victor Sarli Issa   +4 more
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Chagas disease provider fact sheet [PDF]

What is Chagas disease? -- Where is Chagas found? -- Who is at risk? -- How is the disease transmitted? -- What are the phases of the disease?

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Pirfenidone Prevents Heart Fibrosis during Chronic Chagas Disease Cardiomyopathy

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Cardiac fibrosis is a severe outcome of Chagas disease (CD), caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Clinical evidence revealed a correlation between fibrosis levels with impaired cardiac performance in CD patients. Therefore, we sought to analyze the effect of inhibitors of TGF-β (pirfenidone), p38-MAPK (losmapimod) and c-Jun (SP600125) on the ...
Tatiana Araújo Silva, Diane Thomas, Jair L. Siqueira-Neto, Claudia Magalhaes Calvet   +3 more
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Addressing chronic disease through community health workers; a policy and systems-level approach : a policy brief on community health workers [PDF]

This document provides guidance and resources for implementing recommendations to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into community-based efforts to prevent chronic disease. After providing general information on CHWs in the United States, it sets

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Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)

Each manuscript in this collection incorporates data from The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). BRFSS is a state-based system of health surveys that collects information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health ...

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Panniculitis in reactivation of Chagas disease in a cardiac transplant patient

Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Dermatologia e Venereologia
Reactivation of chronic Chagas disease is a rare condition, occurring solely in immunosuppressed patients. Skin involvement has been reported in patients with chronic Chagas disease and heart or kidney transplantation who reactivated the trypanosomiasis.
Gabriela T. Batiston, Gabriella B. Pintos, João R. Antonio, Eduardo C.N. Constantino, Daniel Villafanha   +4 more
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Current and emerging therapeutic options for the treatment of chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy

Vascular Health and Risk Management, 2010
Claudio A Muratore1, Adrian Baranchuk21Department of Cardiology, Arrhythmia Service, Hospital Fernandez, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2Department of Cardiology, Arrhythmia Service, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, CanadaAbstract: Chagas& ...
Claudio A Muratore, Adrian Baranchuk
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Chagas disease in the Americas [PDF]

Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is spread by infected insects called triatomine bugs and can be life threatening during both the early and late stages of infection.

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