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Author(s):
Naomi Abe
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John D Bisognano
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3 years ago
Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in the US, affecting 29% of the adult population.1 Once considered a benign, compensatory mechanism for ageing, high blood pressure (BP) is now recognised as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It is estimated that inadequate BP control is responsible for 62% of cases of cerebrovascular disease, 49% of cases of ischemic heart…
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Author(s):
Cesare Rusconi
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3 years ago
The pump function of the heart resides on two main abilities that allow the entire organism to cope with and face different physiological circumstances from sleep to intense physical exercise of sport activities:
a) diastolic function, defined as the ability of the ventricles to relax and to accept the normal stroke volume at the low pressures existing in the systemic and pulmonary veins; and
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Author(s):
Gina G Mentzer
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Alex J Auseon
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3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) affects more than 5 million people, representing 2 % of the population.1,2 At 40 years of age, the lifetime risk of developing HF, regardless of gender, is one in five, with an incidence of 10 per 1,000 population after the age of 65 years.1,3 Despite efforts focused toward primary prevention of HF in the areas of hypertension (HTN), diabetes, obesity, use of cardiotoxic…
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Author(s):
Peter H Brubaker
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3 years ago
Heart failure (HF), most simply defined as the inability of the heart to meet the demands of the tissue, results in symptoms of fatigue or dyspnea on exertion (progressing to dyspnea at rest), and is a costly and deadly disorder.1 HF is the only cardiovascular disease entity where the incidence is currently increasing. In 1991 there were ‘just’ 3.5 million reported cases of HF in the US; however,…
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Author(s):
Oliver Mithoefer
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Jacob Read
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Carson Keck
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et al
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3 months ago
Why Do You Think That Orbita Failed to Show a Significant Improvement in Exercise Capacity Post PCI?
Author(s):
Gregg Stone
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6 years ago
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Jamie M O’Driscoll
Job title: Reader in Cardiovascular Physiology
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Author(s):
Erik B Friedrich
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Michael Böhm
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3 years ago
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a major public health problem in industrialized societies with an incidence approaching 10 per 1,000 population after age 65 and an age-dependent prevalence of less than 1% between ages 45-55, 2-5% between ages 65-75, and approximately 10% for patients aged 80 years or more.Thus, HF is primarily a condition of the elderly and approximately 80% of patients…
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Author(s):
Aishat F Mustapha
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Anna M Goebel
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Bryan J Wells
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5 months ago
Author(s):
Nithima Chaowalit
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Patricia A Pellikka
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3 years ago
How Far Have We Come?
Cardiac imaging using ultrasound (so-called ‘echocardiography’) was introduced more than 50 years ago. Resting echocardiographic detection of myocardial infarction was described as the reduction in regional contractile function,1 and the development of stress echocardiography in the early era was recognised after the introduction of 2D echocardiographic imaging. The initial…
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