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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Cardiac Health"”.
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Privacy preserving context-aware framework for cardiac health monitoring
The impact of digital technology on healthcare delivery services is increasing as new technologies evolve and current technologies expand. These technologies have the potential to provide a platform to reason about the health condition of a patient using relevant contextual information. …
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Reserve Capacity Model and Metabolic Syndrome in Black and White Seventh-day Adventists
… between socioeconomic status (SES) and cardiac health. Psychosocial factors may contribute to SES-related gradients in cardiac health. The Reserve Capacity Model (RCM; Gallo & Matthews, 2003) is a framework for examining psychosocial pathways in cardiac health disparities on the SES …
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Cardiovascular Reactivity to Forgiveness in Females
… to physiological markers of cardiovascular health based on the manner in which individuals respond to interpersonal offenses. Extant literature has identified the harmful effects of stress in cardiovascular disease and health in general and unforgiveness has been identified as a stressor …
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Acute Coronary Syndrome in Adulthood
… experiences (ACEs) lead to physical and mental health consequences in adulthood, including cardiovascular disease (Dong, Giles, Felitti et al, 2004; Felitti, Anda, Nordenberg, et al, 1998). One potential mechanism linking ACEs to cardiovascular disease is impaired social competence necessary for …
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THE INFLUENCE OF EXERCISE BEFORE AND DURING PREGNANCY ON OFFSPRING HEART FUNCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
… for fetal and infant development (e.g. heart health and development). Most studies examining the influence of exercise during pregnancy on infant outcomes have enrolled women that were previously active and the exercise during pregnancy was self-reported. Therefore, we do not know if changes …
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Efficacy of Cardiac Education on Dietary Habits of Subjects Participating in Cardiac Rehabilitation.
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if cardiac nutrition education can affect dietary patterns of subjects participating in Cardiac Rehabilitation. Surveys, a pretest given prior to the first cardiac class and a second identical test, administered following cardiac rehabilitation classes, …
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Adults with Preexisting Diagnosis of Heart Failure in the Environment of Coronavirus Disease 2019
… patient education programs, implantable cardiac devices, and end-of-life care. Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic in March 2020 in the U.S., research has shown an increased risk of complications and mortality among adults with HF. Currently, limited …
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Hypertension in Older African Americans: Testing Psychosocial Mediators
… (mastery, optimism, self-esteem) which lead to healthy lifestyle behaviors predictive of cardiac health. However, there are few studies that use the RCM to predict hypertension in African American adults. Additionally, the present investigation added discrimination along with low SES as an …
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An Instantaneous Frequency Based Approach to Estimate Heart Rate and Calculate Heart Rate Variability Metrics
… metrics and physiological functions and cardiac health. The first step in calculating HRV metrics is calculating heart rate. Heart rate is typically calculated using the interval between R peaks in an EKG signal. Consequently, heart rate measurements rely on the presence of distinctive R …
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Smart Remote Personal Health Monitoring System: Addressing Challenges of Missing and Conflicting Data
… excellent candidates for monitoring patients’ health status and disease state, for predicting patients’ response to treatment, for alerting extraordinary, acute, or emergency events, for analyzing and managing large datasets, and for preventing disease progression and symptom manifestation. …
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Time-Restricted Feeding Extends Longevity in Drosophila Melanogaster
… animals) at night. TRF has been shown to improve cardiac health in Drosophila melanogaster, reduce metabolic markers in rodent models, and reduce glycemic indices in prediabetic men. However, the mechanism and long-term effects of this intervention remain elusive. To understand the effect of TRF …
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Healthy Behavior: Essays in Health and Behavioral Economics
… essays examine beliefs and decision-making in health settings, emphasizing the role of attention, information, and technology in shaping behavior. The first essay studies human error in chest x-ray interpretation, a common and consequential medical task. It casts radiologists as facing a …
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Depressive Symptoms in Women Being Screened for Cardiovascular Disease Risk
… the relationship between depressive symptoms, health-promoting lifestyle behaviors, heart disease risk awareness, cardiac risk, and quality of life in women at risk for cardiovascular disease. Whether the effect of depressive symptoms on quality of life was mediated by cardiac risk and/or …
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Computational Contributions Towards Scalable and Efficient Genome-wide Association Methodology
… with disease status by comparing the DNA of healthy individuals to the DNA of affecteds. Over the past two decades, an exponential increase in the resolution of DNA-testing technology coupled with a substantial drop in their cost have allowed us to amass huge and potentially invaluable …
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The Impact of Vitamin D Status upon Markers of Athlete Health
… and associated with a number of detrimental health conditions, including a long-term impact on cardiovascular health (M. Holick, 2007; Larson-Meyer & Willis, 2010; Pittas, Lau, Hu, & Dawson-Hughes, 2007), and the aetiology of osteomalacia and osteoporosis (M. F. Holick, 2009). Given the …
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Quantitative Hydrodynamics Analysis of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction using Color M-Mode Echocardiography
Numerous studies have shown that cardiac diastolic dysfunction and diastolic filling play a critical role in dictating overall cardiac health and demonstrated that the filling wave propagation speed is a significant index of the severity of diastolic dysfunction. However, the governing flow physics …
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The interrelationship between central sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation
… A total of 153 patients, originally seen at the cardiac electrophysiology clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and subsequently offered home sleep apnea testing, were included in this study. Several databases – home sleep apnea testing results, polysomnography reports, electrocardiogram …
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Control of Cardiac Remodelling during Ageing and Disease by Epigenetic Modifications and Modifiers
… Pivotal to the age-associated alterations in cardiac phenotype is a decline in the proliferative capacity of cardiac myocytes (CMs), which is insufficient to compensate for the basal rate of CM death over time. The terminally differentiated nature of adult CMs also underlies the inability of …