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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"heart condition"”.
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Optimizing electrocardiogram analysis for efficient heart condition diagnosis
… leads associated with specific cardiovascular conditions. This resource can transform ECG-based diagnoses by focusing on the most pertinent leads. The proposed lead grouping strategy has been successfully integrated with a real-time platform, demonstrating its practical robustness and …
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Adults with congenital heart disease: the patients' perspective.
… more than 90% of children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) surviving and reaching adulthood. This new patient population has been largely overlooked in recent policy and practice developments in health and social care. Evidence available at the start of the study confirmed increased …
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The Role of Gap Junctions in Congenital Diseases of the Heart
… role in the synchronized contraction of the heart and in embryonic development. Connexin43, the major protein of gap junctions in the heart, is targeted by several protein kinases that regulate myocardial cell-cell coupling. We hypothesized that mutations altering sites critical to this …
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Objective Measurement of Peripheral Edema as Symptomatic of Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure is a type of cardiovascular disease that is often accompanied by excess fluid buildup in tissue, causing swelling of the extremities, known as peripheral edema. Assessing the severity level of pitting, or indentation, in peripheral edema can potentially provide insights …
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Decisional Needs of African, Caribbean, and Black Patients Diagnosed with Brain-Heart Conditions
… populations, face barriers to equitable brain-heart healthcare. These barriers contribute to unmet decisional needs and challenges in making informed health decisions. For my master's thesis, I aimed to investigate the decisional needs of ACB patients with brain-heart conditions and the unique …
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Signal Processing for Early Warning Arrhythmia Detection and Survival Prediction for Clinical Decision
According to the British Heart Foundation, UK, there is a population of around 7 million living in the UK with heart and circulatory diseases; about 25% of all the deaths in the UK are caused by cardiovascular diseases and more than 30,000 people a year suffer cardiac arrest out-of-hospital. As …
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A Comparison of Wavelet and Simplicity-Based Heart Sound and Murmur Segmentation Methods
… commonly used medical devices for diagnosing heart conditions because they are inexpensive, noninvasive, and light enough to be carried around by a clinician. Auscultation with a stethoscope requires considerable skill and experience, but the introduction of digital stethoscopes allows for the …
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Assessing the Re-Identification Risk in ECG Datasets and an Application of Privacy Preserving Techniques in ECG Analysis
… for distinct groups of patients with particular heart conditions and combinations of such conditions. For example, we observed that the identification accuracy was the highest (99.7%) for patients with both ST changes and supraventricular tachycardia. On the other hand, we also found that the …
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C - Reactive Protein, Coronary Heart Disease and Ischemic Stroke in the Elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study
… been associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, but much of the research had focused on middle-aged populations with, limited prospective, population-based, longitudinal data. In this study, we examined data from an elderly population and described the distribution …
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Holistic interaction model for peoble living with a chronic disease
… 2004 World Health Organization statistic report. Heart Failure (HF), CVD’s primary paradigm, mainly affects people older than 65. The European MyHeart Project’s mission is to empower citizens to fight CVD by leading a preventative lifestyle and allowing early diagnosis. This Thesis aims to model …