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  1. The mortality of metabolic-obesity phenotypes has been thoroughly studied, but it is not known if or how the association between mortality and body mass index (BMI), waist circumference or a body shape index (...

    Authors: Vilde Lehne Michalsen, Sarah H. Wild, Kirsti Kvaløy, Johan Svartberg, Marita Melhus and Ann Ragnhild Broderstad
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:510
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  2. To investigate the risk factors for mortality in patients with acute kidney injury requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (AKI-CRRT) after cardiac surgery.

    Authors: Chang Liu, Hai-Tao Zhang, Li-Jun Yue, Ze-Shi Li, Ke Pan, Zhong Chen, Su-Ping Gu, Tuo Pan, Jun Pan and Dong-Jin Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:509
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  3. Catheter ablation is an established therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF), but recurrence after ablation remains a great challenge. Additionally, little is known about the effect of renal function on the effici...

    Authors: Jing Zheng, Deling Zu, Keyun Cheng, Yunlong Xia, Yingxue Dong and Zhenyan Gao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:508
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  4. Atrial remodeling is the main developmental cause of atrial arrhythmias (AA), which may induce atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia, and frequent premature atrial beats in acute myocardial i...

    Authors: Wenkai Liao, Li Xu, Yuxia Pan, Jie Wei, Peijia Wang, Xinchun Yang, Mulei Chen and Yuanfeng Gao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:507
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  5. Currently, the accepted effective method for assessing blood volume status, such as measuring central venous pressure (CVP) and mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP), is invasive. The purpose of this study was...

    Authors: Zhihang Ma, Jiaxin Gai, Yinghan Sun, Yunpeng Bai, Hongyi Cai, Lei Wu, Lixiu Sun, Junyan Liu, Li Xue and Bingchen Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:506
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  6. Relatively high rates of adherence to myocardial infarction (MI) secondary prevention medications have been reported, but register-based, objective real-world data is scarce. We aimed to analyse adherence to g...

    Authors: Piret Lõiveke, Toomas Marandi, Tiia Ainla, Krista Fischer and Jaan Eha
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:505
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  7. In the present work, research was carried out to explore the correlation between the high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C)/apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) ratio and serum free triiodothyronine (FT3) and the...

    Authors: Li Li, Gaojun Cai, Wei Lu, Feng Li, Lei Yu and Jianqiang Xiao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:504
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  8. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains the leading cause of cardiac-related deaths and disability in children and young adults worldwide. In The Gambia, the RHD burden is thought to be high although no data are...

    Authors: Lamin E. S. Jaiteh, Lamin Drammeh, Suzanne T. Anderson, John Mendy, Samba Ceesay, Umberto D’Alessandro, Jonathan Carapetis, Mariana Mirabel and Annette Erhart
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:503
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  9. Leadless pacemaker was a promising innovation than traditional transvenous pacemaker, the procedural complications were prone to be bleeding-related. However, very few reports also concerned about the thrombus...

    Authors: Qiang Chen, Yong Jiang Ma, Chun Hong Zhang and Li Wei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:502
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  10. Despite numerous studies supporting the outperformance of ultrathin-strut bioresorbable polymer sirolimus-eluting stent (Orsiro SES, Biotronik AG), the generalizability of the study results remains unclear in ...

    Authors: Pannipa Suwannasom, Siriporn Athiksakul, Tasalak Thonghong, Vorarit Lertsuwunseri, Jarkarpun Chaipromprasit, Suphot Srimahachota, Wasan Udayachalerm, Srun Kuanprasert and Wacin Buddhari
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:501
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  11. Renal denervation with radiofrequency ablation has become an accepted treatment for drug-resistant hypertension. However, there is a continuing need to develop new catheters for high-accuracy, targeted ablatio...

    Authors: Noel Pérez, Karl Muffly and Stephen E. Saddow
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:500
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  12. Machine learning (ML) can include more diverse and more complex variables to construct models. This study aimed to develop models based on ML methods to predict the all-cause mortality in coronary artery disea...

    Authors: Xinyun Liu, Jicheng Jiang, Lili Wei, Wenlu Xing, Hailong Shang, Guangan Liu and Feng Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:499
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  13. Vascular endothelial dysfunction, arteriosclerosis and atherosclerotic plaque are well-known risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Studies on vascular health markers have been well-established, howeve...

    Authors: Huan Liu, Xiaohua Zhou, Jinbo Liu, Wei Huang, Na Zhao and Hongyu Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:498
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  15. Complement activation has been associated with atherosclerosis, atherosclerotic plaque destabilization and increased risk of cardiovascular events. Complement component 7 (CC7) binds to the C5bC6 complex which...

    Authors: Reidun Aarsetøy, Thor Ueland, Pål Aukrust, Annika E. Michelsen, Ricardo Leon de la Fuente, Heidi Grundt, Harry Staines, Ottar Nygaard and Dennis W. T. Nilsen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:496
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  16. Arterial medial calcification (AMC) is associated with a high incidence of cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Here, we tested whether hydrogen sulfide (H2S) can preve...

    Authors: Fang-Zheng Wang, Hong Zhou, Hong-Yu Wang, Hang-Bing Dai, Qing Gao, Pei Qian and Ye-Bo Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:495
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  17. Type 1 Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a hereditary arrhythmogenic disease showing peculiar electrocardiographic (ECG) patterns, characterized by ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads, and risk of Sudde...

    Authors: M. A. Morales, M. Piacenti, M. Nesti, G. Solarino, P. Pieragnoli, G. Zucchelli, S. Del Ry, M. Cabiati and F. Vozzi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:494
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  18. Non-Vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) emerged as an alternative with comparable or superior efficacy and safety to vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) for stroke prevention in patients with non-valvula...

    Authors: Arthur Shiyovich, Varda Shalev, Gabriel Chodick, Matanya Tirosh, Amos Katz, Miriam M. Klar, Mony Shuvy, David Pereg and Sa’ar Minha
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:493
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  19. In the Southern African countries, cardiovascular disease burden is increasing and the second most prevalent cause of death after infectious diseases. The sustainable primary prevention of cardiovascular disea...

    Authors: Mbuyiselo Douglas, Nancy Kgatla, Tholene Sodi, Geofrey Musinguzi, Tebogo Mothiba, Linda Skaal, Mpsanyana Makgahlela and Hilde Bastiaens
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:492
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  20. To provide multivariable prognostic models for severe complications prediction after heart valve surgery, including low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS), acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis (AKI-rH) and m...

    Authors: Yunqi Liu, Jiefei Xiao, Xiaoying Duan, Xingwei Lu, Xin Gong, Jiantao Chen, Mai Xiong, Shengli Yin, Xiaobo Guo and Zhongkai Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:491
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  21. Several studies have recently addressed the importance of glycemic variability (GV) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Although daily GV measures, such as mean amplitude of glycemic excursions, ar...

    Authors: Machiko Miyoshi, Hiroyasu Uzui, Tomohiro Shimizu, Takayoshi Aiki, Yuichiro Shiomi, Minoru Nodera, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Naoto Tama, Kanae Hasegawa, Tetsuji Morishita, Kentaro Ishida, Shinsuke Miyazaki and Hiroshi Tada
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:490
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  22. We aimed to investigate the predictive value of recently updated ACEF II score on major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) in patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease (MVCAD) undergoi...

    Authors: Yanyan Li, Chuang Li, Dejing Feng, Qian Zhang, Kuibao Li, Yu Liu, Xinchun Yang and Lefeng Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:489
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  23. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention is the treatment of choice in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and no-reflow phenomenon is still an unsolved problem.

    Authors: Ning Geng, Li Ren, Lisheng Xu, Deling Zou and Wenyue Pang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:488
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  24. Atrial fibrillation (AF) may cause cerebral and systemic embolism. An increased D-dimer level indicates hyperactivation of secondary fibrinolysis, resulting in predilection for thrombosis. To clarify the diffe...

    Authors: Tetsuya Watanabe, Koichi Tachibana, Yukinori Shinoda, Tomoko Minamisaka, Hidetada Fukuoka, Hirooki Inui, Keisuke Ueno, Souki Inoue, Kentaro Mine and Shiro Hoshida
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:487
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  25. Multi-parameter diagnostic devices can simplify cardiometabolic disease diagnosis. However, existing devices may not be suitable for use in low-resource settings, where the burden of non-communicable diseases ...

    Authors: Beatrice Vetter, David Beran, Philippa Boulle, Arlene Chua, Roberto de la Tour, Lucy Hattingh, Pablo Perel, Gojka Roglic, Rangarajan Sampath, Michael Woodman and Sigiriya Aebischer Perone
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:486
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  26. Left ventricular hypertrophy is a pathophysiological response often due to chronic uncontrolled hypertension. Our primary aim was to investigate the magnitude, correlates and outcomes of left ventricular hyper...

    Authors: Sarah Shali Matuja, Patricia Munseri, Candida Moshiro, Khuzeima Khanbhai and Karim Mahawish
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:485
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  27. The prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) continues to increase among young Chinese adults. Current smoking has been recognized as a major risk factor for premature CAD, and hyperhomocysteinaemia (HHcy) ...

    Authors: Jiayin Sun, Wei Han, Sijing Wu, Shuo Jia, Zhenxian Yan, Yonghe Guo, Yingxin Zhao, Yujie Zhou and Xiaoli Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:484
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  28. Early recurrences of atrial arrhythmias (ERAA) after atrial fibrillation (AF) catheter ablation do not predict procedural failure. A well-demarcated homogeneous lesion delivered by cryoballoon is less arrhythm...

    Authors: Karapet V. Davtyan, Arpi H. Topchyan, Hakob A. Brutyan, Elena N. Kalemberg, Maria S. Kharlap, Georgiy Yu. Simonyan, Andrey A. Kalemberg and Maria V. Kuznetsova
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:483
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  30. Growing evidence indicates that poor sleep harms health. Early to bed and early to rise is considered as a healthy lifestyle in Chinese population. The current study aimed to examine the effects of sleep habit...

    Authors: Xiaoqing Lian, Jie Gu, Sibo Wang, Jianjun Yan, Xiaowen Chen, Mingwei Wang, Yuqing Zhang and Liansheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:481
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  31. Timely acquisition of 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) in the emergency department (ED) is crucial and recommended by current guidelines.

    Authors: Lukas Andreas Heger, Tina Glück, Klaus Kaier, Marcus Hortmann, Marina Rieder, Patrick M. Siegel, Philipp Diehl, Tobias Wengenmayer, Christoph B. Olivier, Christoph Bode, Hans-Joerg Busch, Daniel Duerschmied and Ingo Ahrens
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:480
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  32. Stable coronary artery disease (CAD) patients with myocardial damage have a poor prognosis compared to those without myocardial damage. Recently, malnutrition has been reported to affect the prognosis of cardi...

    Authors: Ryo Arikawa, Daisuke Kanda, Yoshiyuki Ikeda, Akihiro Tokushige, Takeshi Sonoda, Kazuhiro Anzaki and Mitsuru Ohishi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:479
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  33. Heart failure is a common and chronic heart condition with high prevalence and mortality rates. This debilitating disease as an important predictor of health outcomes is directly related to patients' quality o...

    Authors: Hossein Habibzadeh, Akram Shariati, Farshad Mohammadi and Salman Babayi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:478
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  34. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a universal public health challenge, more prominently so in the low- and middle-income countries. In this study, we aimed to determine prevalence and trends of CAD risk factors...

    Authors: Kaveh Hosseini, Seyedeh Hamideh Mortazavi, Saeed Sadeghian, Aryan Ayati, Mahdi Nalini, Arya Aminorroaya, Hamed Tavolinejad, Mojtaba Salarifar, Hamidreza Pourhosseini, Afsaneh Aein, Arash Jalali, Ali Bozorgi, Mehdi Mehrani and Farin Kamangar
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:477
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  35. The study sought to compare Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) classification with traditional coronary artery disease (CAD) classifications and Duke Prognostic CAD Index for predicti...

    Authors: Zengfa Huang, Shutong Zhang, Nan Jin, Yun Hu, Jianwei Xiao, Zuoqin Li, Yang Yang, Ruihong Sun, Zheng Wang, Xiang Li, Yuanliang Xie and Xiang Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:476
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  36. HSCR, a colonic neurocristopathy affecting 1/5000 births, is suggested to associate with cardiac septal defects and conotruncal malformations. However, we question subtle cardiac changes maybe more commonly pr...

    Authors: Ko-Chin Chen, Ko-Chien Chen, Zan-Min Song and Geoffrey D. Croaker
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:475
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  37. Recent evidence has shown that the pathogenesis of ischaemic stroke associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) is complex and involves other factors in addition to arrhythmias. The purpose of this study was to i...

    Authors: Boqun Shi, Demin Liu, Qian Wang, Xue Geng, Qian Hou, Guoqiang Gu, Ruiqin Xie and Wei Cui
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:474
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  38. Trimetazidine (TMZ) pretreatment protects cardiomyocytes during cardiac surgery. TMZ may protect elderly patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) undergoing non-cardiac surgery.

    Authors: Zhong-Liang Dai, Yi-Feng Song, Ya Tian, Yin Li, Miao Lin, Juan Lin, Qi Wang, Ping Wang and Wen-Li Gao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:473
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  39. High blood pressure is a well-recognized risk factor for cardiovascular events, and the incidence of hypertension is increasing among young people. This study investigated the relationship between ALT and AST ...

    Authors: Lijun Zhu, Zhengmei Fang, Yuelong Jin, Weiwei Chang, Mengyun Huang, Lianping He, Yan Chen and Yingshui Yao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:472
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  40. The association between anxiety and atrial fibrillation (AF) remains unclear. Moreover, this association has rarely been studied in Chinese individuals aged 60 years or older. This study investigated the assoc...

    Authors: Zhu-Xia Shen, Yu-Min Sun, Hui-Hui Gu, Yan Zhang, Zhi-Wen Shen, Xiao-Niu Liang, Ding Ding and Jun Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:471
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  43. Furin is the key enzyme involved in the cleavage of pro-BNP and plays a critical role in the cardiovascular system through its involvement in lipid metabolism, blood pressure regulation and the formation of at...

    Authors: Zhi-Wei Liu, Qiang Ma, Jie Liu, Jing-Wei Li and Yun-Dai Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:468
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  44. The reactive hyperemia index (RHI), which is obtained from the measurement of peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT), is highly associated with the percentage change in the end-diastolic arterial diameter (%flow-...

    Authors: A. Garu, Eri Nitta, Yuri Yoshida, Erika Yata, Akari Tsunematsu, Tsuyoshi Araki, Atsushi Nagai and Shozo Yano
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:467
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  45. Medication adherence is a recognized key factor of secondary cardiovascular disease prevention. Cardiac rehabilitation increases medication adherence and adherence to lifestyle changes. This study aimed to eva...

    Authors: Salvatore Soldati, Mirko Di Martino, Alessandro Cesare Rosa, Danilo Fusco, Marina Davoli and Gian Francesco Mureddu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:466
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  46. Aortoiliac occlusion disease, also called Leriche syndrome, is characterized by atherothrombotic obliteration of the aortic bifurcation and bilateral common iliac arteries; typically, it has a chronic presenta...

    Authors: Ying-Sheng Li and Ying-Ching Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:465
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  47. Myocardial dissection (MD) in a left sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (LSVA) is a rare condition that may lead to a fatal complication. Determining the MD etiology is challenging because of various possibilities ran...

    Authors: Astri Astuti, Achmad Hafiedz Azis Kartamihardja, Muhammad Adniel Ilhamy, Muhammad Dinnar Fahlavi, Nuraini Yasmin Kusumawardhani, Melawati Hasan and Laniyati Hamijoyo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:464
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  48. Although it is known that patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) are at an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), the actual coronary artery burden of atherosclerotic disease in patients with ...

    Authors: Katerina V. Kiburg, Andrew I. MacIsaac, Georgia E. McCluskey, Vijaya Sundararajan and Richard J. MacIsaac
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:463
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  49. Inflammation underlies both the pathogenesis and prognosis in patients with acute aortic dissection (AAD). This study aimed to assess the association of ICU admission of white blood cell count (WBCc) with post...

    Authors: Chiyuan Zhang, Zuli Fu, Hui Bai, Guoqiang Lin, Ruizheng Shi, Xuliang Chen and Qian Xu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:462
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  50. Leadless pacemaker has been acknowledged as a promising pacing strategy to prevent pocket and lead-related complications. Although rare, cardiac perforation remains a major safety concern for implantation of M...

    Authors: Xueying Chen, Jingfeng Wang, Yixiu Liang, Yangang Su and Junbo Ge
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:461
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