Ceramide remodeling and risk of cardiovascular events and mortality [PDF]
BackgroundRecent studies suggest that circulating concentrations of specific ceramide species may be associated with coronary risk and mortality. We sought to determine the relations between the most abundant plasma ceramide species of differing acyl ...
Dorr, Marcus +14 more
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Air temperature and inflammatory and coagulation responses in men with coronary or pulmonary disease during the winter season [PDF]
Background and Objective Air temperature changes are associated with increased cardiovascular and respiratory risk, but the roles of inflammatory and coagulation markers are not well understood.
Breitner, Susanne +8 more
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Deportation Worry, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Trajectories, and Incident Hypertension: A Community-Based Cohort Study. [PDF]
Background Worry about deportation has been associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors in cross-sectional research. No research has evaluated this association longitudinally or examined the association between deportation worry and incident ...
Deardorff, Julianna +6 more
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Toward the next generation of research into small area effects on health : a synthesis of multilevel investigations published since July 1998. [PDF]
To map out area effects on health research, this study had the following aims: (1) to inventory multilevel investigations of area effects on self rated health, cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, and mortality among adults; (2) to describe and ...
A. Cangelosi +7 more
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Worldwide variation in cardiovascular magnetic resonance practice models
Introduction The use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for diagnosis and management of a broad range of cardiac and vascular conditions has quickly expanded worldwide. It is essential to understand how CMR is utilized in different regions around
Lilia M. Sierra-Galan +13 more
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Cardiovascular disease risk score prediction models for women and its applicability to Asians
Louise GH Goh,1 Satvinder S Dhaliwal,1 Timothy A Welborn,2 Peter L Thompson,2–4 Bruce R Maycock,1 Deborah A Kerr,1 Andy H Lee,1 Dean Bertolatti,1 Karin M Clark,1 Rakhshanda Naheed,1 Ranil Coorey,1 Phillip R Della5 1School of Public Health, Curtin ...
Goh LGH +11 more
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Usher syndrome (USH) is the most common form of monogenic deaf‐blindness. Loss of vision is untreatable and there are no suitable animal models for testing therapeutic strategies of the ocular constituent of USH, so far.
Sophia Grotz +39 more
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Non-exercise equations to estimate fitness in white European and South Asian men [PDF]
Cardiorespiratory fitness is a strong, independent predictor of health, whether it is measured in an exercise test or estimated in an equation. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate equations to estimate fitness in middle-aged white ...
Bakrania, Kishan +10 more
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Individualized Angiotensin‐Converting Enzyme (ACE)‐Inhibitor Therapy in Stable Coronary Artery Disease Based on Clinical and Pharmacogenetic Determinants: The PERindopril GENEtic (PERGENE) Risk Model [PDF]
Patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) constitute a heterogeneous group in which the treatment benefits by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitor therapy vary between individuals.
Akkerhuis, KM +14 more
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The Cardiac Lipidome in Models of Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. There are numerous factors involved in the development of CVD. Among these, lipids have an important role in maintaining the myocardial cell structure as well as cardiac function ...
Mateusz M. Tomczyk, Vernon W. Dolinsky
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