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 ...
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 ...
Beyond Cholesterol in the Prima ...
In spite of major advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, they remain the primary cause of death worldwide. Furthermore, ...
Does the 9p21 Genetic Variant H ...
Genetic variation at 9p21 has been one of the strongest, most common, and most consistent genetic markers associated with cardiovascular disease. As ...
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 ...
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 ...
Contribution of Diet and Genes ...
Dietary recommendations for polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are based in part on results from epidemiologic studies to determine the level of die ...
Clinical Utility of Multiple Bi ...
Current cardiovascular risk prediction is imprecise, with clinical treatment aimed at those with high risk of disease while neglecting those at inte ...
Valvular Heart Disease in Aging ...
Elderly women are at risk for aortic and mitral valve disease that may be challenging to manage because of co-morbidities. Many reports focus on the ...
Physical Activity, Weight Loss, ...
Contemporary studies now suggest that multifactorial risk factor modification—especially smoking cessation, more intensive dietary modifications, ph ...
Systems Biology Approaches for ...
Systems biology is an emerging field that offers promise in exploring the inter-connectivity and causality between biological pathways. This review ...
The Rise and Fall of Hypertensi ...
Hypertension is a progressive cardiovascular syndrome that arises from many differing, but interrelated, etiologies. Hypertension is the most preval ...
Disparities in Women with Heart ...
Despite comprising over half of the heart failure population, women have been under-represented in most major clinical heart failure trials. Women w ...
Genetic Predictors of Exercise ...
Both observational studies and randomized, controlled interventions have shown that regular physical activity provides several health benefits. Alth ...
The Incretin System and Cardiov ...
Incretins, such as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), are gut peptides that stimulate insulin secretion. Incretintargeted therapeutics for type 2 diab ...
Salt Restriction and Challenges ...
This article reviews the best evidence currently available worldwide on the causal relationship between salt intake and blood pressure and its relat ...
Case Series of Takotsubo Cardio ...
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as apical ballooning syndrome or stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is characterized by reversible left ventricular ...
Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, a ...
There is evidence supporting that type 2 diabetes, either per se or through the concurrence of other factors and chronic conditions like obesity, co ...
The Global Burden of Cardiovasc ...
Some consider the measurements of arterial elasticity and flow-mediated dilation to be an indirect “biomarker” of endothelial dysfunction. As such, ...
Alcohol and Cardiovascular Risk ...
Understanding the many health effects of even moderate alcohol use in women is not an easy task for clinicians. Moderate intake has been consistentl ...
Workplace Interventions to Redu ...
The worksite is ideal for implementing interventions to reduce obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors. Although worksite health promotion is not n ...
Should There Be a Different Car ...
The concept of a polypill for cardiovascular disease prevention has attracted widespread attention since Wald and Law’s seminal paper in 2003. The a ...
Considerations Regarding Antipl ...
Adults over the age of 65 years represent more than half of the patients living with heart disease in the United States. However, the majority of th ...
The Global Burden of Tobacco Us ...
Tobacco use is a risk factor for cardiovascular, cancer, and respiratory mortality. To determine deaths attributable to tobacco, the smoking impact ...
An Update on the Biology of RAS ...
Deaths caused by colorectal cancer (CRC) are among the leading causes of cancer-related death in the United States and around the world. Approximate ...