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Marek Malik, J. Thomas Bigger, A. John Camm, Robert E. Kleiger, Alberto Malliani, Arthur J. Moss, Peter J. Schwartz; Heart rate variability: Standards of m

BACKGROUND: The American Heart Association, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health, annually reports on the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular risk factors, inc...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine; Stroke (engine); Association (psychology); Disease; Heart disease; Cardiology; Internal medicine; Epistemology; Philosophy; Mechanical engineering; Engineering

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BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to examine the association of Joint National Committee (JNC-V) blood pressure and National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) cholesterol categories with coronary heart disea...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Aldosterone is important in the pathophysiology of heart failure. In a doubleblind study, we enrolled 1663 patients who had severe heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of no more...

Abstract. The pumping activity permanently carried out by the heart requires a constant energy supply that is derived mainly from fatty acids and, to a lesser extent, from glucose and lactate. The Krebs cycle plays a cen...

BACKGROUND: Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors improve the outcome among patients with left ventricular dysfunction, whether or not they have heart failure. We assessed the role of an angiotensin-converting-enzyme ...

A cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus, which occur together more often than by chance alone, have become known as the metabolic syndrome. The risk factors include raised blood ...