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  1. Macro-reentrant atrial tachycardias (MATs) are a common complication after cardiac valve surgery. The MAT types and the effectiveness of MAT ablation might differ after different valve surgery. Data comparing ...

    Authors: Xin-hua Wang, Ling-cong Kong, Tian Shuang, Zheng Li and Jun Pu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:538
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  2. Although coronary events (CE) and ischemic stroke share many risk factors, there are also some important differences. The aim of this paper was to assess the association of risk factors in relation to incident...

    Authors: Iram Faqir Muhammad, Yan Borné, Suneela Zaigham, Martin Söderholm, Linda Johnson, Margaretha Persson, Olle Melander and Gunnar Engström
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:536
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  3. Education can contribute to promotion of the quality of life and reduction of heart anxiety in patients with heart failure, so it is important to find a suitable educational method for these patients. Therefor...

    Authors: Fateme Mohammadi, Mitra Sadeghi Jahromi, Mostafa Bijani, Shanaz Karimi and Azizallah Dehghan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:535
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  4. The cardioprotective ability of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is controversial. Most studies suggest a specific role for PUFAs in cardioprotection from ischemic heart disease (IHD). However, few stud...

    Authors: Bayi Xu, Zhixia Xu, Duanmin Xu and Xuerui Tan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:532
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  5. The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between fasting blood glucose and new-onset hypertension and examine any synergistically effect modification with multiple risk factors.

    Authors: Jing Liu, Nan N. Cheng, Zi Y. Zhou, Yue Zhang, Jie Yang, Li S. Liu, Yun Song, Xiao Huang, Gen F. Tang, Bin Y. Wang, Xian H. Qin, Xi P. Xu and Xiang Q. Kong
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:531
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  6. Estimated plasma volume status (ePVS) has been reported that associated with poor prognosis in heart failure patients. However, no researchinvestigated the association of ePVS and prognosis in patients with ac...

    Authors: Jun Chen, Jiayi Shen, Dongsheng Cai, Tiemin Wei, Renyi Qian, Chunlai Zeng and Lingchun Lyu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:530
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  7. Neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a valuable indicator for evaluating inflammation and adverse outcomes after cardiac surgery. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of perioperative NL...

    Authors: Peng Gao, Jinping Liu, Xu Wang, Peiyao Zhang, Yu Jin, Liting Bai and Yixuan Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:529
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  8. The value of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in cardiogenic shock, especially the combination of the ECMELLA approach (Impella combined with ECMO), remains controversial.

    Authors: Daniel Ebert, Nils Mungard, Alexander Mensch, Lorenz Homeister, Jan Willsch, Richard Ibe, Henning Baust, Markus Stiller, Artur Rebelo, Joerg Ukkat, Angelos G. Rigopoulos, Elke Weber, Michael Bucher and Michel Noutsias
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:528
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  11. Hypertension has always been a worldwide health concern. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rates of hypertension among adult residents of northern C...

    Authors: Xiaoqian Xu, Han Bao, Zixuan Tian, Hao Zhu, Lige Zhu, Liwei Niu, Tao Yan, Hairong Dong, Xin Fang and Xingguang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:525
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  12. To explore the effects of cardiac exercise rehabilitation on peripheral blood endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) in elderly patients with chronic heart failure.

    Authors: Juming Chen, Shenhong Gu, Yanling Song, Xinbo Ji, Wangyuan Zeng, Xiaoxi Wang, Yachun Wang and Qingfeng Feng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:524
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  13. To explore the determinants of incident hypertension, and especially the impact of baseline blood pressure categories, in a representative Swedish population.

    Authors: Ulf Lindblad, Klara Lundholm, Jenny Eckner, Ying Li, Lennart Råstam, I. Margareta Hellgren and Bledar Daka
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:523
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  14. With the high prevalence of COVID-19 infections worldwide, the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults (MIS-A) is becoming an increasingly recognized entity. This syndrome presents in patients several week...

    Authors: Michael I. Gurin, Yue J. Lin, Samuel Bernard, Randal I. Goldberg, Navneet Narula, Robert T. Faillace, Carlos L. Alviar, Sripal Bangalore and Norma M. Keller
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:522
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  16. aVR lead is often neglected in routine clinical practice largely because of its undefined clinical utility specifications. Nevertheless, positive T-wave in aVR lead has been reported to be associated with poor...

    Authors: Babak Kazemi, Seyyed-Reza Sadat-Ebrahimi, Abdolmohammad Ranjbar, Fariborz Akbarzadeh, M. Reza Sadaie, Naser Safaei, Mehdi Esmaeil zadeh-Saboor, Bahram Sohrabi and Samad Ghaffari
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:520
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  17. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) restores ventricular synchrony and induces left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling in patients with heart failure (HF) and dyssynchrony. However, 30% of treated patient...

    Authors: Björn Östenson, Ellen Ostenfeld, Anna Werther-Evaldsson, Anders Roijer, Zoltan Bakos, Mikael Kanski, Einar Heiberg, Håkan Arheden, Rasmus Borgquist and Marcus Carlsson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:519
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  18. Atherosclerosis is the main cause of carotid artery stenosis (CAS) which mostly occurs in the elderly. In this paper, the expression level of miR-375-3p in asymptomatic CAS patients and its diagnostic value fo...

    Authors: Yuxia Yin, Zhen Cheng, Xiaoling Fu and Shishun Ji
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:518
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  19. Adipsin has been identified as a secreted adipokine that plays a critical pathogenic role in metabolic disorders. However, it is not clear regarding the association of circulating adipsin with cardiovascular d...

    Authors: Jinhua Zhang, Fei Teng, Lingling Pan, Dan Guo, Jianfang Liu, Kangli Li, Youwen Yuan, Wenyuan Li and Huijie Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:517
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  20. The non-invasive quantitative evaluation of left ventricle (LV) function plays a critical role in clinical cardiology. This study proposes a novel ultrasonic biomechanics method by integrating both LV vortex a...

    Authors: Aohua Zhang, Min Pan, Long Meng, Fengshu Zhang, Wei Zhou, Yaonan Zhang, Rongqin Zheng, Lili Niu and Yanling Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:516
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  21. Pacific people experience a disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), whether they remain in their country of origin or migrate to higher-income countries, such as Australia, Aotearoa New Zealan...

    Authors: Julie Winter-Smith, Vanessa Selak, Matire Harwood, Shanthi Ameratunga and Corina Grey
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:515
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  22. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common complication of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in very-low-birth-weight infants (VLBWIs). Although recent studies have increased awareness that PH contributes signific...

    Authors: Junfang Sun, Bowen Weng, Xiaoyue Zhang, Xiaoyun Chu and Cheng Cai
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:514
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  23. Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease with a high mortality worldwide. Understanding the atherosclerosis pathogenesis and identification of efficient diagnostic signatures remain major...

    Authors: Feng Zhu, Lili Zuo, Rui Hu, Jin Wang, Zhihua Yang, Xin Qi and Limin Feng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:513
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  24. To investigate the midterm effect of exercise capacity and quality of life (QoL) of adult patients who underwent transthoracic device closure of ventricular septal defects (VSDs) and explore the gap in the qua...

    Authors: Qiang Chen, Rong Yang, Yu-Qing Lei, Kai-Peng Sun and Hua Cao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:512
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  25. The prognostic value of human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) is unknown.

    Authors: Yi Tang, Yinzhen Wang, Xiaoping Xu, Laura Yan Tu, Pei Huang, Xiaoyan Yang, Lihua Li, Juan Wu, Yan Zhang, Qinghua Fu, Yingli Yu, Zhaofen Zheng, Lixia Song and Yi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:511
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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