Resistant Hypertension
Prolonged Sitting and the Risk ...
Prolonged sitting behaviors are a distinct subset of sedentary behaviors. They include television viewing, computer and video use, sitting in automo ...
Cardiovascular Complications of ...
Severe obesity (body mass index .35 kg/m2) is occurring at younger ages in US women and is relatively common among women of certain racial/ethnic ba ...
Public Policy Actions Needed to ...
Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and strategies to increase activity levels are as important to population hea ...
Cardiovascular Disease in Asian ...
Asian Indians (people originating from the Indian subcontinent) are the largest Asian subgroup in the United States and one of the fastest growing e ...
Carotid Intima Media Thickness ...
Cardiovascular (CV) risk (ie, coronary heart disease [CHD] risk + stroke risk) prediction can be improved with the use of imaging modalities. Caroti ...
Prescribing Exercise in Clinica ...
There is solid evidence that physical activity is essential to improve health as well as quality of life, and there is an urgent need to find effect ...
The Complexity of Vascular and ...
Diabetes is a complex disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia and multiple phenotypes. In 1995, we used a doctor-nurse-clerk team and structu ...
Exercise Training and Endotheli ...
Vascular endothelium is a key determinant of circulatory homeostasis because it coordinates tissue perfusion and modulates arterial compliance. Endo ...
Inflammation in Relation to Car ...
Ethnic differences in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated metabolic risk factors have been shown in ...
Vitamin D, Hypertension, Left V ...
The extra-skeletal effects of vitamin D have been increasingly recognized in the recent years and its effects on blood pressure and cardiac function ...
The Combined Burden of Diabetes ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease are significant contributors to the 17-year disparity in life ex ...
Obesity, Age, and Cardiac Risk
Obesity is a highly prevalent metabolic disorder affecting all sections of society from young children to adults and the elderly. Obesity is a well- ...
Resistant Hypertension
Resistant hypertension is defined as a blood pressure that remains above goal despite the concurrent use of optimal doses of three antihypertensive ...
Cardiovascular Risk in the Old ...
Cardiovascular disease is a heterogeneous disease caused by the interaction of multiple pathologies affecting various systems, genetic predispositio ...
Cocoa Consumption, Cocoa Flavon ...
There has been considerable interest in the health effects of cocoa products. Cocoa flavonoids have especially been associated with cardiovascular d ...
Prevention of Second Strokes Th ...
Hypertension has long been recognized as a major risk factor for stroke, and lowering blood pressure has been shown to be effective in preventing fi ...
Dissociation Between Cardiovasc ...
Despite having distinct advantages, such as lower serum triglycerides, higher high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels, and less visceral a ...
Fitness, Fatness, and Cardiovas ...
There is a high prevalence of both overweight and obesity in the United States and other developed countries. There is strong evidence of the associ ...
Dairy Consumption, Blood Pressu ...
Hypertension is a major risk factor for development of stroke, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and endstage renal disease. In a systematic re ...
Quantifying Mitral Regurgitatio ...
Current three-dimensional (3D) echocardiographic technology, including live 3D transesophageal echocardiography and single-beat 3D color Doppler im ...
Assessment of the Right Ventric ...
In the last decade, the role of the right ventricle (RV) has been increasingly recognized in a variety of conditions, contributing to the pathophysi ...
Evaluation of Atrial and Ventri ...
Within this report we present a state of the art assessment of the status of 3D echocardiographic imaging (3D echo) of atrial septal defect (ASD) an ...
Assessment of Coronary Flow Dur ...
The aim of this review is to focus on the additional diagnostic and prognostic value of Doppler echocardiographicderived coronary flow reserve over ...
Chamber and Vessel Quantificati ...
The American Society of Echocardiography has recently published guidelines for chamber and vessel quantification during a pediatric echocardiogram. ...
New Scores for the Assessment o ...
Nonsurgical management of patients with symptomatic mitral valve stenosis has been established as the therapeutic modality of choice for two decades ...