Cost-effectiveness of eplerenone in patients with systolic heart failure and mild symptoms [PDF]
, 2014 Aim In the Eplerenone in Mild Patients Hospitalization and Survival Study in Heart Failure (EMPHASIS-HF), aldosterone blockade with eplerenone decreased mortality and hospitalisation in patients with mild symptoms (New York Heart Association class II ...
Akehurst, R. +9 more
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Mechanism of tonifying-kidney Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of chronic heart failure
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), chronic heart failure has the basic pathological characteristics of “heart-kidney yang deficiency.” Chronic heart failure with heart- and kidney-Yang deficiency has good overlap with New York Heart ...
Lizhen Chen +3 more
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Isolated major aortopulmonary collateral as the sole pulmonary blood supply to an entire lung segment [PDF]
, 2017 Congenital systemic-to-pulmonary collateral arteries or major aortopulmonary collaterals are associated with cyanotic congenital heart disease with decreased pulmonary blood flow.
Grady, R. Mark +2 more
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Positive effect of if-channel’s blocker ivabradine therapy in a patient with ischemic chronic heart failure with preserved left ventricle ejection fraction and hereditary thrombophilia (clinical case) [PDF]
КардиоСоматика, 2019 Chronic heart failure is one of the leading causes of mortality among patients with cardiovascular diseases. Current therapeutic methods for treating patients with chronic heart failure do not always provide a significant improvement in main intermediate
Iurii N. Belenkov +4 more
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Терапевтический архив, 2023 The annual mortality of patients with clinically pronounced symptoms of chronic heart failure in the Russian Federation reaches 2629%, i.e., from 880 to 986 thousand patients with heart failure die in the country in one year, which is comparable to the ...
Oleg M. Reitblat +11 more
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Biomarkers Beyond the Natriuretic Peptides for Chronic Heart Failure: Galectin-3 and Soluble ST2. [PDF]
, 2012 B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and NT-proBNP are widely used plasma biomarkers for the diagnosis of acute decompensated heart failure and prognosis for future cardiac disease.
Wu, Alan HB
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Ventricular androgenic-anabolic steroid-related remodeling: an immunohistochemical study [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Several fatal cases of bodybuilders, following a myocardial infarction after long exposure to androgenicanabolic steroids (AAS), are reported. In recent years, evidence has emerged of cases of heart failure related to AAS consumption, with no
Cecchi, Rossana +7 more
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The Journal of Nutrition, Health and AgingObjectives: Intrinsic capacity (IC), a multidimensional construct encompassing mental and physical capacities, has been established in the aging framework by the World Health Organization.
Xing-Ling Chen +8 more
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The relationship of individual comorbid chronic conditions to diabetes care quality. [PDF]
, 2015 ObjectiveMultimorbidity affects 26 million persons with diabetes, and care for comorbid chronic conditions may impact diabetes care quality. The aim of this study was to determine which chronic conditions were related to lack of achievement or ...
Bolt, Daniel M +7 more
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South African Family Practice, 2015 Heart failure is a global problem. It is estimated that approximately 38 million people worldwide experience heart failure, and this number is growing because of the ageing of nations’ populations, but also because patients are rescued from death during ...
J. A. Ker
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