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Showing 1 to 20 of 1237 for “"cardiovascular disease"”.
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Parity and Cardiovascular Disease
… is associated with increased risk for clinical cardiovascular events although there are no data on the effects on central aortic stiffness or remodelling. We examined the relationship between live births and central aortic pressure indices, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based measures of …
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Cardiovascular Disease: Prevention and Management
Cardiovascular disease is a leading source of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Statins, or HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors, are efficacious in reducing major arterial vascular events and also may decrease risk of venous vascular events (venous thromboembolism) in women taking hormone …
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Adaptive Immunity in Cardiovascular Disease
… thickening of the major arteries, is a chronic disease leading to cardiovascular disease (CVD) such as myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke, both affecting millions worldwide. T-cells and antibodies have been implicated in atherosclerosis. This thesis contains studies on CD4+ helper subsets and …
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Risk Perception in Cardiovascular Disease
<p>Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains among the leading causes of death in the United States despite widespread knowledge about risk factors as well as effective primary prevention strategies. Risk perception is a complex phenomenon that plays an important role in how persons view disease and …
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Improving Equity In Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk
… use of racial categorization in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) risk, limits assessment of confounders beyond cholesterol. The Life’s Essential Eight (LE8) categories of healthy diet, sleep, physical activity, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, total cholesterol, and blood …
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Cortisol responsive gene networks in cardiovascular disease
… plasma cortisol levels are associated with Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and CVD risk factors, however the tissue specific mechanisms underpinning this process are poorly understood. A genome wide meta-analysis by the CORtisol NETwork (CORNET) consortium identified genetic variants, spanning …
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Adiposity measures and risk of cardiovascular disease
… fat and body fat distribution to the risk of cardiovascular disease remains unclear. This thesis aims to investigate associations of body-mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) with risk of first-onset cardiovascular disease under a range of different …
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Scalable integrated screening tools for cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for more than 17.9 million deaths per year. Atherosclerosis, characterized by stiffening of the arteries, is the precursor to heart attacks and strokes, which cover 85% of all CVD mortalities. Since the disease is …
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The placenta and cardiovascular disease: A meta-analysis
… as a risk factor for the development of adult diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). A fetus relies on the nutrients and conditions delivered via the placenta, and as such the placenta plays a vital role in the establishment and maintenance of appropriate uterine conditions. …
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Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease in Renal Transplant Recipients
Background:<br/>Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of premature mortality in renal transplant recipients. Predicting the risk of future cardiovascular events in this patient cohort is challenging due to the prevalence of non-traditional risk factors. Biomarkers of cardiovascular disease have …
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Inflammatory markers as novel predictors of cardiovascular disease
… known to be predictive risk factors for future cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in prospective epidemiological studies. Inflammatory markers dominant in the literature are acute phase response (APR)-associated and include fibrinogen, C-reactive protein (CRP) and, more recently, interleukin- …
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Novel molecular imaging of cardiovascular disease in man
Cardiovascular disease remains the commonest cause of death worldwide. The majority of deaths are caused by atherosclerotic plaque rupture with resultant myocardial infarction or stroke, or rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Conventional imaging modalities have consistently failed to identify …
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Environmental Arsenic Exposure and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
… research on arsenic-related cardiometabolic disease, particularly at lower exposure levels, has been limited. This PhD thesis aims to investigate the epidemiological relationship between chronic environmental arsenic exposure and several sub-types of cardiometabolic disease, with a primary …
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Psoriasis activation of cells important in cardiovascular disease
Psoriasis is an immune mediated inflammatory disease which affects 2-3% of the world’s population. Over the last decade, psoriasis has been acknowledged as an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis. The precise mechanism or mechanisms of the heightened risk is widely speculated. Endothelial …
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A Machine Learning Classifiers Approach for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis
… ensemble classifiers can play to help diagnose cardiovascular disease. The computing power and technology available to humans has helped in the development of the application of computers in cardiology. With this development comes a redundancy of some data. When there is a large amount of data …
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Obesity and cardiovascular disease. Aspects of methods and susceptibility.
… was to study the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in obese individuals, as measured by different obesity measurements, and to explore how the CVD risk related to obesity was modified by other biologic and socio-demographic circumstances. Data from two population-based …
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The relationship between reduced renal function and cardiovascular disease
… between measures of renal function and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with hypertension (the NORDIL study) and in the healthy population (Malmö Diet and Cancer Study, MDC) and whether antihypertensive treatment response and the risk of CVD is affected by genetic variation of a …
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