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2009 NOV 23 ... (MRI) and proton MR spectroscopy to quantify pericardial and peri-aortic lipid volumes, cardiac function, aortic compliance and intra-hepatic lipid content. Fasting plasma ... study, which appears on-line in Obesity, also found that measuring a person's body mass index (BMI) does not reliably predict the amount of undesired fat in and around these vital ...
2009 NOV 23 ... >65 years of age, 73 (6) years, 34% men) who underwent whole-heart three-dimensional cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) angiography (1.5 T) and Doppler echocardiography. Forty-two ... angle (beta = -0.34, p<0.001), age (beta = 0.23, p = 0.01) and end-systolic volume index (beta = -0.20, p = 0.02), but not BST (beta = 0.02, p = 0.8), were associated with LVOT ...
2009 NOV 24 ... indication that this index can help discriminate sensitively the mild heart failure (cardiac function classes 1 and 2) from the healthy gives a clue to early clinic diagnosis of ...
2009 NOV 23 ... performance in identifying patients with a low peak VO2 who might be considered for cardiac transplantation," wrote G.M. Felker and colleagues. The researchers ... had moderate ability to identify patients with peak VO2 <12 mL/kg per minute (c-index, 0.69). In this analysis of baseline data from HF-ACTION, NT-proBNP was the strongest ...
2009 NOV 23 ... electrical activity of the heart with the goal of improving drug safety, understanding cardiac arrhythmias, and developing new electrocardiograph technologies. The Center for ... about the creation of the THEW database visit: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=2685. This data will be provided to academic and private research ...
2009 NOV 23 ... training in 261 patients (age 45 +/- 13 years) with BMI >= 30 kg/m(2), no history of cardiac disease and a normal stress echocardiogram. Each patient underwent echocardiographic ... were: weight reduction (beta=0.14, p<0.05), decrease in the HOMA insulin resistance index (beta=0.20, p<0.005) and absence of diabetes (beta=0.18, p<0.02). A decrease in ...
2009 NOV 23 ... hypoxia followed by reoxygenation (H-R) is associated with increased degradation of cardiac myosin light chain 1 (MLC1) by matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2), and to investigate ... and cardiac MMP-2 activity was positively, strongly correlated with stroke volume index. This relationship was not seen in the H-R group. However, in both the normoxic group ...
2009 NOV 23 ... arterial tonometry and Doppler echocardiography, we assessed arterial stiffness and cardiac diastolic function in 53 individuals with ejection fraction > =0.50, including 23 ... hypertensives, subjects with heart failure had higher systolic blood pressure, body mass index, creatinine, and left ventricular mass. Diastolic function, as estimated by myocardial ...
2009 NOV 23 ... negative correlations between heart rate variability (HRV) and inflammatory markers. In cardiac patients, depression is related to both," scientists in Montreal, Canada report. ... age, sex, previous MI, left ventricular ejection fraction, coronary bypass surgery at index admission, diabetes, smoking, body mass index (BMI), fasting cholesterol, fasting ...
2009 NOV 23 ... interval [CI] 1.29-3.51). The risk was similar among individuals with pre-existing cardiac disease (adjusted OR 2.25, 95% CI 1.18-4.28) and those receiving negative chronotropic ... bradycardia, and were matched to the corresponding case on age, sex, and a disease risk index. All patients had received cholinesterase inhibitor therapy in the 9 mo preceding the ...
2009 NOV 23 ... polymorphism in the alpha(2B)-adrenoceptor gene is associated with the risk for sudden cardiac death. This was a prospective population-based study investigating risk factors for ... serum low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, body mass index, and exercise-induced myocardial ischemia), men with the D/D or I/D genotype had 1.97 ...
2009 NOV 23 ... mg/kg monocrotaline revealed marked myocardial hypertrophy and fibrosis, that is, severe cardiac remodeling," scientists in Hachioji, Japan report. "The time-course study ... methods showed a reduction in cardiac double product, a decrease in cardiac output index, and an increase in the right ventricular Tei index, suggesting that the right ...
2009 NOV 24 ... a numerical investigation of the radiation characteristics of gastric, bladder, and cardiac implants based on the finite-differences time-domain method. Simulations were performed ... are strongly dependant oil the location of wireless implants,as well as the body mass index of the subject. The results highlighted the significance of subject specific modeling ...
2009 NOV 23 ... for inclusion in a core set of outcomes for SSc clinical trials: soluble biomarkers, cardiac, digital ulcers, gastrointestinal, global health, health related quality of life (HRQOL) ... from the United States, "There have been steady efforts to develop a combined response index for systemic sclerosis (CRISS). A parallel and equally successful effort has been made ...
2009 NOV 29 ... with hypertension. Obese subjects may undergo dilatation of this chamber because of the cardiac output; that is, the blood that is transported by the heart every minute is increased. ... medical history, lifestyle and health behavior. Obesity was defined as body mass index (BMI) 27.3 kg/m2 in men and 27.8 kg/m2 in women.Keywords: Aging, ...
2009 NOV 23 ... acutely, suggesting that nesiritide has no significant acute lusitropic effect. (J Cardiac Fail 2009;15:673-680)." Efstratiadis and colleagues published their study ... indices (E/E'/stroke Volume (SV) and E/E'/left ventricular end-diastolic volume index (LVEDVI)), and the echocardiographic diastolic filling pattern classification did not ...
2009 NOV 23 ... stent is safe and effective. The results showed a 30-day major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) rates of 2.7% for intention-to-treat (ITT) patients ... average lesion length. Among the secondary endpoints, average treadmill, ankle brachial index, and Rutherford scores improved. ARMOUR L. Nelson Hopkins, MD, presented results from ...
