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  1. Recent studies have found that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) exposure may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. The present study aimed to explore the association between PAHs exposure and sev...

    Authors: Xi Yang, Haobin Zhou, Hao Zhang, Peijian Zhang, Zhikang Zheng, Dingli Xu and Qingchun Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:104
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  2. Data on fibrinolytic therapy use for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and long-term clinical outcomes in developing countries are limited. We aimed to investigate the management and 2-year mo...

    Authors: Chao Wu, Ling Li, Shuqing Wang, Jianping Zeng, Jingang Yang, Haiyan Xu, Yanyan Zhao, Yang Wang, Wei Li, Chen Jin, Xiaojin Gao, Yuejin Yang and Shubin Qiao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:103
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  4. Recent advances in telecommunications technology have raised the possibility of telehealth intervention delivering cardiac telerehabilitation, which may provide the efficacy of health services in patients afte...

    Authors: Wen Zhong, Chenying Fu, Lin Xu, Xin Sun, Shiqi Wang, Chengqi He and Quan Wei
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:101
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  5. Guidelines have endorsed non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs), consisting of factor Xa inhibitors (xabans) and direct thrombin inhibitors, as the first line of treatment in venous thromboemboli...

    Authors: Dae Yong Park, Seokyung An, Abdul Wahab Arif, Muhammad Khawar Sana and Aviral Vij
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:100
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  6. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a common and significant birth defect, frequently requiring surgical intervention. For beneficiaries of the Department of Defense, a new diagnosis of CHD may occur while livin...

    Authors: Spencer M. Millen, Cara H. Olsen, Ryan P. Flanagan, John S. Scott and Craig P. Dobson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:99
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  7. The prognosis of patients hospitalized with non-ST elevation-acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) is typically determined by the existence and severity of myocardial necrosis and left ventricular (LV) remodeling.

    Authors: Maryam Nabati, Samad Golshani, Morteza Taghavi, Abbas Alipour and Homa Parsaee
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:98
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  8. Protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR1) is crucial in individuals with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The continuous and prompt PAR1 activation mainly dependent on PAR1 trafficking is essential for the role o...

    Authors: Ani Wang, Xinyuan Gu, Chunyang Wang, Yanhui Li, Fuhong Deng, Jie Fang, Naxia Chen, Qifu Li and Lilong Tang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:97
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  9. Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is one of the critical cardiovascular complications that lead to elevated morbidity and mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2M). The association between osteopro...

    Authors: Fatemeh Vazirian, Masoumeh Sadeghi, Dongdong Wang, Reza Javidi Dashtbayaz, Arash Gholoobi, Sara Samadi and Amir Hooshang Mohammadpour
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:96
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  10. Despite the increasing application of tolvaptan in cardiac surgery, there is no information on the use of tolvaptan in Stanford patients with type A aortic dissection. This study aimed to evaluate the postoper...

    Authors: Wenjun Wang, Feng Gao, Xuezhi He, Yang Gao, Lei Shi, Wei Liu and Xijing Zhuang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:95
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  11. The Post Discharge Management of patients with heart failure impact significantly their incomes. This study aims to analyze the clinical findings and management at the first medical visit of these patients in ...

    Authors: F. Sall, A. Adoubi, C. Boka, N. Koffi, P. Ouattara, A. Dakoi and J. B. Anzouan-Kacou
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:94
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  12. Previous studies have examined the associations of health literacy and social support with medication adherence among patients with hypertension. However, limited evidence exists regarding the mechanisms under...

    Authors: Aizhen Guo, Hua Jin, Jianbo Mao, Weihong Zhu, Ye Zhou, Xuhua Ge and Dehua Yu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:93
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  13. A sudden increase in heart rate (HR) during ablation of the right superior pulmonary venous vestibule (RSPVV) is often detected in patients undergoing circumferential pulmonary vein isolation (CPVI). In our cl...

    Authors: Ping Fang, Xianghai Wang, Meijun Zhang, Jichun Liu, Youquan Wei, Jinfeng Wang, Hao Yang, Xiangrong Xie and ShengXing Tang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:92
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  14. A number of models have been reported for predicting atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after catheter ablation. Although many machine learning (ML) models were developed among them, black-box effect existed ...

    Authors: Yibo Ma, Dong Zhang, Jian Xu, Huani Pang, Miaoyang Hu, Jie Li, Shiqiang Zhou, Lanyan Guo and Fu Yi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:91
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  16. T cells have been implicated in the development and progression of inflammatory processes in chronic heart failure (CHF). Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has beneficial effects on symptoms and cardiac ...

    Authors: Sílvia Martins, Natália António, Tiago Carvalheiro, Paula Laranjeira, Ricardo Rodrigues, Lino Gonçalves, Cândida Tomaz and Artur Paiva
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:89
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  17. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a common diagnosis in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). The prevalence of LVH among patients with Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), high blood pressure and aging ...

    Authors: Nader Parsa, Mohammad Moheb, Mohammad Javad Zibaeenezhad, Ali Karimi-Akhormeh, Maurizio Trevisan, Lisa Wallin, Pari Mahlagha Zaheri, Mehrab Sayadi, Iman Razeghian-Jahromi and Alireza Moaref
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:88
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  18. Adherence to antihypertensive drugs (AHDs) is important for adequate blood pressure control. Not taking these drugs as prescribed is one of the main underlying causes for resistant hypertension (RH), which in ...

    Authors: L. E. J. Peeters, M. H. W. Kappers, E. Boersma, E. K. Massey, L. van Dijk, T. van Gelder, B. C. P. Koch and J. Versmissen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:87
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  19. Aortic pseudoaneurysm is a life-threatening clinical condition, and thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has been reported to have a relatively satisfactory effect in aortic pathologies. We summarized o...

    Authors: Ming-yao Luo, Xiong Zhang, Kun Fang, Yuan-yuan Guo, Dong Chen, Jason T. Lee and Chang Shu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:86
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  20. The right heart is mainly supplied with blood by the right coronary artery (RCA). The impact of RCA chronic total occlusion (CTO) on the function of the right heart [right atrium (RA) and ventricle (RV)] and w...

    Authors: Recha Blessing, Ioannis Drosos, Thomas Münzel, Philip Wenzel, Tommaso Gori and Zisis Dimitriadis
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:85
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  21. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrythmia and causes many complications. Sinus rhythm restoration could reduce late mortality of atrial fibrillation patients. The Maze procedure is the gold stan...

    Authors: Feng-Cheng Chang, Yu-Tung Huang, Victor Chien-Chia Wu, Hui-Tzu Tu, Chia-Pin Lin, Jih-Kai Yeh, Yu-Ting Cheng, Shang-Hung Chang, Pao-Hsien Chu, An-Hsun Chou and Shao-Wei Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:84
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  22. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is relatively less frequent in younger patients (age < 50). Recently, studies have suggested that early restoration of sinus rhythm may lead to improved outcomes compared with rate con...

    Authors: Andrew S. Tseng, Harsh P. Patel, Ashish Kumar, Chinmay Jani, Kirtenkumar Patel, Rahul Jaswaney, Samarthkumar Thakkar, Narayan G. Kowlgi, Sourbha S. Dani, Shilpkumar Arora, Siva K. Mulpuru, Malini Madhavan, Ammar M. Killu, Yong-mei Cha, Christopher V. DeSimone and Abhishek Deshmukh
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:83
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  23. Heart failure (HF) is recognized as a global public health disease associated with high morbidity and mortality. It is suggested that the main underlying causes of HF in developing countries differ from those ...

    Authors: Francis Agyekum, Aba A. Folson, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah Asare, Alfred Doku, John Kpodonu, Rafiq Okine, Forster Fokuoh and Joseph Atiah Akamah
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:82
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  24. Blunt cardiac injury (BCI) has a variety of symptoms that may be a potentially life-threatening injury that can lead to death. Depending on the diagnosis of BCI, treatment direction and length of stay may vary...

    Authors: Chae-Min Bae, Joon Yong Cho, Hanna Jung and Shin-Ah Son
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:81
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  25. The home treatment of elderly patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) is often accompanied by malnutrition, which increases the risk of re-hospitalisation and affects the prognosis. Therefore, how to effecti...

    Authors: Ce Zhou, Shan Wang, Xing Sun, Yuhao Han, Li Zhang and Meixia Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:80
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  27. Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) is a frequent complication caused by cardiac and non-cardiac pathophysiological mechanisms, but often it is subclinical. MINS is associated with increased mor...

    Authors: Jesús Álvarez-Garcia, Ekaterine Popova, Miquel Vives-Borrás, Miriam de Nadal, Jordi Ordonez-Llanos, Mercedes Rivas-Lasarte, Abdel-Hakim Moustafa, Eduard Solé-González, Pilar Paniagua-Iglesias, Xavier Garcia-Moll, David Viladés-Medel, Rubén Leta-Petracca, Gerard Oristrell, Javier Zamora, Ignacio Ferreira-González, Pablo Alonso-Coello…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:78
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  28. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after cardiac surgery, and preoperative renal dysfunction is an important risk factor. Proteinuria indicates renal structural damage, but there are few studie...

    Authors: Wuhua Jiang, Zhihong Chen, Jiarui Xu, Zhe Luo, Jie Teng, Xiaoqiang Ding, Shuan Zhao and Xialian Xu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:77
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  31. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients sustain a fairly high prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Microvascular inflammation is an early manifestation of CVD, and the released mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) h...

    Authors: Zhen Fan, Ya Feng, Li Zang, Yi Guo and Xiao-yi Zhong
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:74
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  32. During the eleven years from 2010 to 2021, preliminary statistics have shown that Fuwai Hospital completed 23,571 mechanical valve replacements for various types of valves, and 1139 mechanical valve replacemen...

    Authors: Xianzhi Wang, Jiawei Qiu, Cunfu Mu, Wenlin Zhang, Chunzhu Xue, Yang He, Qinglin Mu, Chunyang Fu and Dianyuan Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:73
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  33. Postoperative delirium (POD) complicates the postoperative course. There is limited information on POD-related risk factors (RFs) and prognosis in patients with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) after mod...

    Authors: Jian-Ling Lin, Guo-Zhong Zheng, Liang-Wan Chen and Zeng-Rong Luo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:72
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  34. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy and safety of endovascular treatment aorto-iliac occlusive disease (AIOD) with TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus II (TASC II) C and D lesi...

    Authors: Xiangjun Dong, Ziqian Peng, Yanqiao Ren, Lei Chen, Tao Sun, Yangbo Su, Huimin Liang and Chuansheng Zheng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:71
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  35. Traditional risk stratification tools do not describe the complex principle determinant relationships that exist amongst pre-operative and peri-operative factors and their influence on cardiac surgical outcome...

    Authors: Khurum Mazhar, Saifullah Mohamed, Akshay J. Patel, Sarah Berger Veith, Giles Roberts, Richard Warwick, Lognathen Balacumaraswami, Qamar Abid and Marko Raseta
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:70
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  36. Inflammatory factors are well-established indicators for vascular disease, but the D-dimer to lymphocyte count ratio (DLR) is not measured in routine clinical care. Screening of DLR in individuals may identify...

    Authors: Yansong Xu, Silei Liang, Zheng Liang, Cuiqing Huang, Yihuan Luo, Guanbiao Liang and Wei Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:69
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  37. To estimate the relationship among uric acid (UA), 24-h microalbumin (24 h-MAU) and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in hypertensive patients.

    Authors: Hongda Chou, Maoti Wei, Hongxia Chen, Yuanyuan Xu, Leilie Shi, Jiajia Duan, Linlin Li, Ning Yang and Yuming Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:68
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  38. An increased leukocyte count is a sign of inflammation and has been demonstrated to be a predisposing factor and complication of atrial fibrillation. Similarly, albumin, the major protein in the serum, is also...

    Authors: Fabrice Yves Ndjana Lessomo, Qian Fan, Zhi-Quan Wang and Chishimba Mukuka
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:67
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  39. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and albumin level were considered to be related to the prognosis of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). This study aims to investigate the correlation betwe...

    Authors: Hongwu Li and Yinjun Xu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:66
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  40. Many hemodynamic parameters provide limited information regarding obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) during exercise stress testing particularly when exercise is suboptimal. Hemodynamic gain index (HGI)...

    Authors: Mohamad Jihad Mansour, Elie Chammas, Michael Winkler and Wael AlJaroudi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:65
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  41. Impaired vascular compliance is common among persons with HIV (PWH) and a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), though many studies documenting this are from regions with a high prevalence of overweigh...

    Authors: Longa Kaluba, Theresa Chikopela, Fastone Goma, Mordecai Malambo, Wilbroad Mutale, Douglas C. Heimburger and John R. Koethe
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:64
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  42. We sought to apply a simple cardiovascular health tool not requiring laboratory tests (the Fuster-BEWAT score, FBS) to predict subclinical atherosclerosis. This study included 2657 young adults (< 40 years of ...

    Authors: Quan Huynh, Alison J. Venn, Costan G. Magnussen, Hong Yang, Prasanna Venkataraman, Terence Dwyer and Thomas H. Marwick
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:63
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  43. Cardiovascular disease is often associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD), resulting in an increased risk for poor outcome. We sought to determine short-term mortality and overall survival in ST-elevation m...

    Authors: Christiane Engelbertz, Jannik Feld, Lena Makowski, Leonie Kühnemund, Alicia Jeanette Fischer, Stefan A. Lange, Christian Günster, Patrik Dröge, Thomas Ruhnke, Joachim Gerß, Eva Freisinger, Holger Reinecke and Jeanette Köppe
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:62
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  44. ST-segment elevation (STE) represents a repolarization dispersion marker underlying arrhythmogenesis in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI); however, its value for predicting malignant ventricul...

    Authors: Xianpei Wang, Lifang Wei, Ying Wu, Juanjuan Yan, Linwei Zhao, Xinjie Yue and Chuanyu Gao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:61
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  45. Both bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and bovine aortic arch (BA) are considered as markers of thoracic aortic disease (TAD). But the association between them is not yet clear. This study aimed to explore the poten...

    Authors: Jing Sun, Shuai Zhang, Hongxia Qi, Cheng Sun, Zhihui Hou, Xiaoqi Wang and Xiangyang Qian
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:60
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  46. Intimal sarcomas are an extremely rare type of primary cardiac malignancy. They most commonly present with symptoms of cardiac dysfunction. We present a case of intimal sarcoma identified without any cardiac s...

    Authors: Joshua Lloyd, Navinee Gilliat, Graeme Porter and Francesco Pirone
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:59
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  47. The activation of the complement system and subsequent inflammatory responses are important features of myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Exosomes are nanoscale extracellular vesicles that play a s...

    Authors: Xiao-Fang Cheng, Shi-Tao He, Guo-Qiang Zhong, Jian-Jun Meng, Min Wang, Qi Bi and Rong-Hui Tu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:58
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  48. Anti-mitochondrial antibody (AMA)-positive inflammatory myopathy, a rare type of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy which was frequently difficult to diagnose, can affect muscles and the structure and electrical...

    Authors: Rong Huang, Xinlin Zhang, Zhonglin Han, Xiang Wu, Guannan Li, Jianzhou Chen, Biao Xu, Rong Gu and Lian Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:57
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  49. Superior mesenteric artery embolism (SMAE) is a rare cause of acute abdomen, and the fatality rate is extremely high if it is not diagnosed and treated in time. Due to the lack of knowledge and experience of n...

    Authors: Yongle Jing, Jianqiang Xu, Bingwei Chen, Dasheng Xia, Dachuan Xia, Yunpeng Tian, Wei Xia, Chengzhi Lu and Yuli Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:56
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  50. Previous studies have revealed associations between hyperuricemia and microvascular diseases, but the association between hyperuricemia and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) remains unclear. The aim of this stud...

    Authors: Jen-Chun Wang, Shih-Hung Tsai, Hsiao-Ya Tsai, Shing-Jong Lin and Po-Hsun Huang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2023 23:55
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