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  1. Limited data are available on the risk ratios for fatal cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcome from gout and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in non-diabetic individuals.

    Authors: Victor C Kok, Jorng-Tzong Horng, Hsin-Li Lin, Yu-Ching Chen, Yan-Jun Chen and Kuang Fu Cheng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:108
  2. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia observed in clinical practice. Electrical cardioversion (EC) is commonly used to restore and maintain sinus rhythm but it is characterized by hi...

    Authors: Lorenzo Loffredo, Francesco Angelico, Ludovica Perri and Francesco Violi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:107
  3. There has been a paucity of autopsy studies on atherosclerotic lesions in Nigerians, the last one conducted at our centre being more than four decades ago. There has also been considerable epidemiological tran...

    Authors: Erete I Erete, Olabiyi G Ogun, Olulola O Oladapo and Effiong E U Akang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:106
  4. It’s unknown whether the prognostic value of admission heart rate (HR) was different in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with or without concomitant type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2...

    Authors: Zhang Han, Yang Yan-min, Zhu Jun, Liu Li-sheng, Tan Hui-qiong and Liu Yao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:104
  5. Infective Endocarditis (IE) is considered as a multifaceted problem in every aspect from etiology and presentation to diagnosis and management. Early recognition of this disease and especially its complication...

    Authors: Ali Hamadanchi, Wolfgang Bothe, Alexander Pfeil, Azita Abdi Rad, Bernhard R Brehm, Hans R Figulla, Thorsten Doenst, Marcus Franz and Christian Jung
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:103
  6. We aimed to evaluate the multivariate association between functional microvascular variables and clinical-laboratorial-anthropometrical measurements.

    Authors: Diogo G Panazzolo, Fernando L Sicuro, Ruth Clapauch, Priscila A Maranhão, Eliete Bouskela and Luiz G Kraemer-Aguiar
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:102
  7. Type VI dual left anterior descending artery (LAD) is a rare coronary anomaly, the first case of which has recently been described. This is the first report of type VI dual LAD anomaly in which the patient pre...

    Authors: Yonggu Lee, Young-Hyo Lim, Jinho Shin and Kyung-Soo Kim
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:101
  8. This study was performed to investigate the relationship between elastic properties of aorta and left atrium volume index (LAVI) in hemodialyzed (HD) patients.

    Authors: Tomasz Zapolski, Andrzej Wysokiński, Andrzej Książek and Andrzej Jaroszyński
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:100
  9. Cardiovascular diseases contribute substantially to the poor health and reduced life expectancy of Indigenous Australians. Heart failure is a common, disabling, progressive and costly complication of these dis...

    Authors: John A Woods, Judith M Katzenellenbogen, Patricia M Davidson and Sandra C Thompson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:99
  10. In Poland, the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases is increasing. This might be associated with the constantly growing proportion of elderly people and inappropriate cardiovascular prevention. This study aim...

    Authors: Beata Labuz-Roszak, Krystyna Pierzchala, Michal Skrzypek, Marta Swiech and Agnieszka Machowska-Majchrzak
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:98
  11. Heart failure is a major cause of mortality and morbidity. As mortality rates are high, it is important that patients seen by general practitioners with symptoms suggestive of heart failure are identified quic...

    Authors: Lynda Tait, Andrea K Roalfe, Jonathan Mant, Martin R Cowie, Jonathan J Deeks, Rachel Iles, Pelham M Barton, Clare J Taylor, Marites Derit and FD Richard Hobbs
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:97
  12. Circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) capture technology improves endothelialization rates of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES), but the problem of delayed re-endothelialization, as well as endothelial ...

    Authors: Feng Yang, Shi-Chao Feng, Xiang-Jun Pang, Wei-Xiao Li, Yong-Hua Bi, Qian Zhao, Shi-Xuan Zhang, Yang Wang and Bo Feng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:96
  13. Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited arrhythmic disorder characterised by prolongation of the QT interval on ECG, presence of syncope and sudden death. The symptoms in LQTS patients are highly variable, and...

    Authors: Eva-Lena Stattin, Ida Maria Boström, Annika Winbo, Kristina Cederquist, Jenni Jonasson, Björn-Anders Jonsson, Ulla-Britt Diamant, Steen M Jensen, Annika Rydberg and Anna Norberg
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:95
  14. Areca nut (commonly known as betel nut) chewing has been shown to be associated with metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The mechanism by which betel nut ingestion could lead to development of...

    Authors: Mohammad Perwaiz Iqbal, Naseema Mehboobali, Ghulam Haider, Shahid Pervez and Iqbal Azam
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:94
  15. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may disrupt control of blood pressure in hypertensive patients and increase their risk of morbidity, mortality, and the costs of care. The objective of this study ...

    Authors: Hisham Aljadhey, Wanzhu Tu, Richard A Hansen, Susan J Blalock, D Craig Brater and Michael D Murray
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:93
  16. Neointimal formation in atherosclerosis has been subject for intense research. However, good animal models mimicking asymmetrical lesion formation in human subjects have been difficult to establish. The aim of...

    Authors: Antti Kivelä, Juha Hartikainen and Seppo Ylä-Herttuala
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:91
  17. Genetic variation at 1p13 modulates serum lipid levels and the risk of coronary heart disease through the regulation of serum lipid levels. Here we investigate if the interaction between genetic variants at 1p...

    Authors: Bruna Gigante, Karin Leander, Max Vikström, Shu Ye and Ulf de Faire
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:90
  18. The link between type 2 diabetes and hypertension is well established and the conditions often coexist. High normal blood pressure, defined by WHO-ISH as systolic blood pressure (SBP) 130–139 mm Hg or diastoli...

    Authors: Christina Hedén Stahl, Masuma Novak, Georgios Lappas, Lars Wilhelmsen, Lena Björck, Per-Olof Hansson and Annika Rosengren
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:89
  19. Patients with Senning repair for complete transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) show an impaired exercise tolerance. Our aim was to investigate changes in exercise capacity in children, adolescents and a...

    Authors: Roselien Buys, Werner Budts, Tony Reybrouck, Marc Gewillig and Luc Vanhees
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:88
  20. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been established as a treatment option for inoperable patients with symptomatic aortic valve stenosis. However, patients suffer frequently from conduction dis...

    Authors: Ibrahim Akin, Stephan Kische, Lylia Paranskaya, Henrik Schneider, Tim C Rehders, Ulrich Trautwein, Gökmen Turan, Dietmar Bänsch, Olga Thiele, Dimitar Divchev, Ilkay Bozdag-Turan, Jasmin Ortak, Gunther Kundt, Christoph A Nienaber and Hüseyin Ince
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:87
  21. Atrial fibrillation is a serious public health problem posing a considerable burden to not only patients, but the healthcare environment due to high rates of morbidity, mortality, and medical resource utilizat...

    Authors: Harry JGM Crijns, Lori D Bash, François Chazelle, Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, Thorsten Lewalter, Gregory YH Lip, Aldo P Maggioni, Alfonso Martín, Piotr Ponikowski, Mårten Rosenqvist, Prashanthan Sanders, Mauricio Scanavacca, Alexandra A Bernhardt, Sreevalsa Unniachan, Hemant M Phatak and Anselm K Gitt
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:85
  22. We evaluated the effectiveness and safety of a zotarolimus-eluting (ZES) versus a sirolimus-eluting (SES) coronary stent in a large cohort of patients treated with one of these stents in Western Denmark.

    Authors: Michael Maeng, Lisette Okkels Jensen, Anne Kaltoft, Hans-Henrik Tilsted, Evald Høj Christiansen, Per Thayssen, Morten Madsen, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Jens Flensted Lassen and Leif Thuesen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:84
  23. Anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery (AAOCA) from the opposite sinus of Valsalva with an interarterial course has received much attention due to its association with sudden death in otherwise healthy...

    Authors: Josiah M Peñalver, Ralph S Mosca, Daniel Weitz and Colin KL Phoon
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:83
  24. Approximately 2/3 of Veterans admitting to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities present >12 hours after symptom onset of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (“late presenters”). Veterans admitted to V...

    Authors: Kelly McDermott, Charles Maynard, Ranak Trivedi, Elliott Lowy and Stephan Fihn
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:82
  25. Care pathways have become a popular tool to enhance the quality of care by improving patient outcomes, promoting patient safety, increasing patient satisfaction, and optimizing the use of resources. We perform...

    Authors: Seval Kul, Antonella Barbieri, Erika Milan, Ilke Montag, Kris Vanhaecht and Massimiliano Panella
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:81
  26. Nonagenarians are mostly denied from different therapeutic strategies due to high comorbidity index and risk-benefit calculation. We present the results of nonagenarians with high comorbidity index not eligibl...

    Authors: Ibrahim Akin, Stephan Kische, Lylia Paranskaya, Henrik Schneider, Tim C Rehders, Gökmen R Turan, Dimitar Divchev, Gunther Kundt, Ilkay Bozdag-Turan, Jasmin Ortak, Ralf Birkemeyer, Christoph A Nienaber and Hüseyin Ince
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:80
  27. Psoriasis is an inflammatory disease associated with increased risk of coronary artery disease. However, the potential impact of psoriasis on the prognosis following percutaneous coronary revascularization (PC...

    Authors: Ole Ahlehoff, Jesper Lindhardsen, Gunnar H Gislason, Jonas B Olesen, Mette Charlot, Lone Skov, Christian Torp-Pedersen and Peter R Hansen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:79
  28. Lipid accumulation product (LAP) has been advocated as a simple clinical indicator of metabolic syndrome (MS). However, no studies have evaluated the accuracy of LAP in predicting MS in Taiwanese adults. The a...

    Authors: Jui-Kun Chiang and Malcolm Koo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:78
  29. Effects of fish oil on systematic inflammation in chronic heart failure remain unclear. In this meta-analysis, we aimed to evaluate the influence of fish oil supplementation on circulating levels of inflammato...

    Authors: Wei Xin, Wei Wei and Xiaoying Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:77
  30. Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) is common in cardiovascular diseases and associated with hypertension, renal dysfunction and/or heart failure. There is a paucity of data about the prevalence and t...

    Authors: Mireille E Emans, Karien van der Putten, Birgitta K Velthuis, Jan JJ de Vries, Maarten J Cramer, Yves GCJ America, Hans L Hillege, Louis Meiss, Pieter AFM Doevendans, Branko Braam and Carlo AJM Gaillard
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:76
  31. Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity and is associated with cardiovascular disease via contributory processes such as endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and thrombosis. Cigarette ...

    Authors: Emma Bishop, Eugenia H Theophilus and Ian M Fearon
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:75
  32. Primary care plays a key role in the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We examined primary care practice adherence to recommended care guidelines associated with the prevention and man...

    Authors: Clare Liddy, Jatinderpreet Singh, William Hogg, Simone Dahrouge, Catherine Deri-Armstrong, Grant Russell, Monica Taljaard, Ayub Akbari and George Wells
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:74
  33. Hypertension is one of the key factors causing cardiovascular diseases which make up the most frequent cause of death in industrialised nations. However about 60% of hypertensive patients in Germany treated wi...

    Authors: Iris Tinsel, Anika Buchholz, Werner Vach, Achim Siegel, Thorsten Dürk, Andreas Loh, Angela Buchholz, Wilhelm Niebling and Karl-Georg Fischer
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:73
  34. A multicenter European Registry, SEARCH-MI, was instituted in the year 2002 in order to assess patients’ outcomes and ICD interventions in patients with a previous MI and depressed LV function, treated with an...

    Authors: Giuseppe Boriani, Gianluca Botto, Maurizio Lunati, Alessandro Proclemer, Boris Schmidt, Ali Erdogan, Werner Rauhe, Mauro Biffi, Elisabetta Santi, Daniel Becker, Marc Messier and Massimo Santini
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:72
  35. The additional benefit of lifestyle interventions in patients receiving cardioprotective drug treatment to improve cardiovascular risk profile is not fully established.

    Authors: Wilhelmina IJzelenberg, Irene M Hellemans, Maurits W van Tulder, Martijn W Heymans, Jan A Rauwerda, Albert C van Rossum and Jaap C Seidell
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:71
  36. An increasing number of authors employing intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and virtual histology (VH-IVUS) have investigated the effect of statin use on plaque volume (PV) and plaque composition. However, incon...

    Authors: Jinwei Tian, Xia Gu, Yanli Sun, Xiang Ban, Yun Xiao, Sining Hu and Bo Yu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:70
  37. Regular exercise is beneficial for cardiovascular health but a recent meta-analysis indicated a relationship between extensive endurance sport and a higher risk of atrial fibrillation, an independent risk fact...

    Authors: Karl Georg Haeusler, Juliane Herm, Claudia Kunze, Matthias Krüll, Lars Brechtel, Jürgen Lock, Marc Hohenhaus, Peter U Heuschmann, Jochen B Fiebach, Wilhelm Haverkamp, Matthias Endres and Gerhard Jan Jungehulsing
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:69
  38. Arterial hypertension (AH) is a main risk factor for the risk from cardiovascular (CVD) and stroke mortality. Only few data was published on prevalence, awareness and management of AH in Lithuania. Development...

    Authors: Regina Reklaitiene, Abdonas Tamosiunas, Dalia Virviciute, Migle Baceviciene and Dalia Luksiene
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:68
  39. Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is one of the most common complications in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The goal of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the efficacy of th...

    Authors: Wan-Jie Gu, Chun-Yin Wei, De-Qing Huang and Rui-Xing Yin
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:67
  40. The effects of baseline and changes in blood pressure and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol on the carotid intima media thickness (IMT) have not been well documented.

    Authors: Kuo-Liong Chien, Yu-Kang Tu, Hsiu-Ching Hsu, Ta-Chen Su, Hung-Ju Lin, Ming-Fong Chen and Yuan-Teh Lee
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:66
  41. Although the release of cardiac biomarkers after percutaneous (PCI) or surgical revascularization (CABG) is common, its prognostic significance is not known. Questions remain about the mechanisms and degree of...

    Authors: Whady Hueb, Bernard J Gersh, Paulo Cury Rezende, Cibele Larrosa Garzillo, Eduardo Gomes Lima, Ricardo D'Oliveira Vieira, Rosa Maria Rahmi Garcia, Desiderio Favarato, Carlos Alexandre W Segre, Alexandre Costa Pereira, Paulo Rogério Soares, Expedito Ribeiro, Pedro Lemos, Marco A Perin, Célia Cassaro Strunz, Luis AO Dallan…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:65
  42. Stroke is a potential complication of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence, risk factors predisposing to stroke, in-hospital and 1-year mortality among patients p...

    Authors: Jassim Al Suwaidi, Khalid Al Habib, Nidal Asaad, Rajvir Singh, Ahmad Hersi, Husam Al Falaeh, Shukri Al Saif, Ahmed Al-Motarreb, Wael Almahmeed, Kadhim Sulaiman, Haitham Amin, Jawad Al-Lawati, Norah Q Al-Sagheer, Alawi A Alsheikh-Ali and Amar M Salam
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:64
  43. The importance of doxorubicin (Dox), as a potent antitumor antibiotic, is limited by the development of life-threatening cardiomyopathy. It has been shown that free radicals are involved in acute doxorubicin-i...

    Authors: Najah Hadi, Nasser Ghaly Yousif, Fadhil G Al-amran, Nadhem K Huntei, Bassim I Mohammad and Sadiq J Ali
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:63
  44. The value of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography stress myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI) for detecting graft disease after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) has not been studied prospectivel...

    Authors: Basel Al Aloul, Mackenzi Mbai, Selcuk Adabag, Santiago Garcia, Hoang Thai, Steven Goldman, William Holman, Gulshan Sethi, Rosemary Kelly, Herbert B Ward and Edward O McFalls
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:62
  45. We investigated whether 9p21 polymorphisms are associated with cardiovascular events in a group of 611 patients enrolled in the Medical, Angioplasty or Surgery Study II (MASS II), a randomized trial comparing ...

    Authors: Luciana Gioli-Pereira, Paulo Caleb Junior Lima Santos, Noely Evangelista Ferreira, Whady Armindo Hueb, Jose Eduardo Krieger and Alexandre Costa Pereira
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:61
  46. Chronic heart failure accounts for a great deal of the morbidity and mortality in the aging population. Evidence-based treatments include angiotensin-2 receptor blockers (ARBs), angiotensin-converting enzyme i...

    Authors: Ju-Young Kim, Hwa-Jung Kim, Sun-Young Jung, Kwang-Il Kim, Hong Ji Song, Joong-Yub Lee, Jong-Mi Seong and Byung-Joo Park
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:60
  47. Screening with ankle-brachial index (ABI) measurement could be clinically relevant to avoid cardiovascular events in subjects with asymptomatic atherosclerosis. To assess the practical impact of guidelines reg...

    Authors: Bianca LW Bendermacher, Joep AW Teijink, Edith M Willigendael, Marie-Louise Bartelink, Ron JG Peters, Machteld Langenberg, Harry R Büller and Martin H Prins
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:59

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