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Showing 1 to 20 of 806 for “"heart disease"”.
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Heart disease in pregnancy
… of two hundred and twenty -five patients with heart disease is reviewed, showing its incidence in pregnancy to be 0.8 per cent, and its mortality 3.1 per cent.
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Personality predictors of coronary heart disease
Fifty percent of the diagnosed cases of coronary heart disease in the United States are of unknown etiology. This study proposed that five personality traits— achievement, dominance, aggression, succorance and Critical Parent—differentiate individuals with coronary heart disease manifestations. The …
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Arrhythmia heart disease classification using deep learning
… cause about half of deaths due to cardiovascular disease and about 15% of all deaths globally. About 80% of sudden cardiac death is the result of ventricular arrhythmias. Arrhythmias may occur at any age but are more common among older people. Arrhythmias are caused by problems with the electrical …
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Metabolic alterations in patients with heart disease
Despite major advances in therapies, chronic heart failure (CHF) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are still associated with significant morbidity and mortality. These patients often have a significant limitation in their exercise capacity. We showed that there are widespread abnormalities of …
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of children with rheumatic heart disease: a global rheumatic heart disease registry (REMEDY) sub-analysis
Background: Despite Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) contributing to an estimated disease burden in 2019 of 40 million people and 285 500 deaths, few studies document the characteristics and outcomes in children. We undertook a sub-analysis of children from the multi-centre prospective two-year global …
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Patient Perceptions of Comorbid Depression in Heart Disease
… is a risk factor for the development of heart disease, as well as for poor prognosis among patients with existing disease. However, clinical trials of treatment of depression in patients with heart disease have not resulted in improved cardiac outcomes, and have demonstrated modest …
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Engineering Biodegradable Vascular Scaffolds for Congenital Heart Disease
… common birth defects worldwide are congenital heart defects. To treat these malformations in a child’s cardiovascular system, synthetic grafts have been used as a primary intervention. However, current grafts suffer from deficiencies such as minimal biological compatibility, inability to grow …
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Spatial analysis of ischemic heart disease in Manitoba
Introduction: Chronic diseases rarely follow uniform distributions throughout geographical space and so identifying regions that have frequent occurrences or elevated prevalences is important. The disease of interest for this research project was ischemic heart disease (IHD). Objectives: The …
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Valvular heart disease: novel epidemiological and imaging studies
… antibiotics have entered routine use, valvular heart disease (VHD) in the developed world is mostly degenerative in origin, rather than rheumatic. Our population is increasing with age, and therefore the burden of VHD is likely to increase. Despite this, the epidemiology & prognostication in VHD …
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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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Neurohormonal and inflammatory markers in valvular heart disease
Chronic valvular heart disease is characterised by compensatory mechanisms that result in a long asymptomatic phase associated with variable disease progression. After the development of symptoms or left ventricular dysfunction, mortality is high without surgical intervention. Currently there is no …
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Outcomes of asymptomatic and symptomatic rheumatic heart disease
Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a leading cause of heart disease in children and young adults in the developing world, with significant associated morbidity and mortality. Early secondary prophylaxis may retard the deleterious progression from its antecedent, acute rheumatic fever to permanent …
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3D printing of cardiac structures in congenital heart disease
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital disorder diagnosed in newborns. It afflicts approximately 0.8% to 1.2% of live births worldwide but the mortality rate and incidence vary around the world. CHD is categorized as one or more abnormalities of the heart or great vessels from …
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Medicating race : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference
… of intersections of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease over the course of the 20th century and today. Each of these parts has had a dynamic history, and when they are invoked together they provide a terrain for arguments about interventions in health and in justice in the present. An …
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Heart rate variability in mice with coronary heart disease
Heart rate variability (HRV), the beat-to-beat fluctuation of the heart rate, is a non-invasive test that measures the autonomic regulation of the heart. Assessment of HRV has been shown to predict the risk of mortality in patients after an acute myocardial infarction. Recently, the Krieger lab at …
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Modeling Neural Stem Cell Dynamics in Congenital Heart Disease
… regions to severe conditions such as congenital heart disease (CHD), resulting in poor neurological outcomes. Owing to its reminiscent complexity to humans, the neonatal piglet (Sus scrofa domesticus), which possesses a highly evolved gyrencephalic neocortex and an expansive outer SVZ, provides a …
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Physical activity and depression in people with coronary heart disease
… (PA) and depression in people with coronary heart disease (CHD). I conducted three studies to explore this topic. In Study 1, I examined the relationship between PA and depression, over time, in people with CHD. In Study 2, I explored the PA experiences of people with both depression and CHD, …
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Cardiomyocyte Autophagy Is Induced by Protein Aggregation in Heart Disease
… of this pathway had not been identified in the heart, nor was it clear weather autophagy is an adaptive or maladaptive response in the stressed myocardium. My initial research focused on autophagy in hypertension-induced heart failure, the most common cardiovascular disease in Western nations. …
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Correlation Between Heart Disease and the Hardness of Drinking Water
… investigates the possible correlation between heart disease mortality and the hardness of drinking water to determine if there are protective factors associated with hard water that may reduce heart disease. The study attempts to see if such a correlation can be found in the population that is …
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Quality of life and ethics-patients with ischemic heart disease
One month and one year after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (n=296), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) (n=99) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (n=18) patients completed a questionnaire for self-assessment of quality of life (QoL) during the period 1989?1991. Patients differed …
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