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  1. The discrepancy between glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) in clinical practice may be related to factors such as acute stress, renal dysfunction, and anemia, and its relationship wi...

    Authors: Nan Ye, Lijiao Yang, Guoqin Wang, Weijing Bian, Fengbo Xu, Changsheng Ma, Dong Zhao, Jing Liu, Yongchen Hao, Jun Liu, Na Yang and Hong Cheng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:380
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2021 21:349

  2. Preoperative low left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) has been reported as an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality. However, there were few studies evaluating the long-term mortality in these...

    Authors: Fu-Dong Fan, Hai-Tao Zhang, Tuo Pan, Xin-Long Tang and Dong-Jin Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:379
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  3. Maximum oxygen uptake is an established measurement of diagnosing chronic heart failure and underlies various central and peripheral factors. However, central and peripheral factors are little investigated, be...

    Authors: Joana Brochhagen, Michael Thomas Coll Barroso, Christian Baumgart, Jürgen Freiwald and Matthias Wilhelm Hoppe
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:378
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  4. Recently, left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) has been shown to be feasible. However, the right ventricular (RV) implantation site for LBBAP remains elusive. We believe that the RV implantation site should ...

    Authors: Xiang-Fei Feng, Peng-Pai Zhang, Bo Liu, Yan Zhao, Qiu-Fen Lu and Yi-Gang Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:377
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  5. A subclavian-superior vena cava arteriovenous fistula is usually acquired and secondary to trauma or operations, while congenital causes are very rare. A congenital arteriovenous fistula leads to congestive he...

    Authors: Geng Li, Xingjian Hu, Yin Wang and Si Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:376
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  6. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest clinically significant ECG-evidenced sustained cardiac arrhythmia in clinical practice. Disability and mortality attributed to AF is high in low-income regions like su...

    Authors: Ermiyas Endewunet, Abilo Tadesse, Aynishet Adane and Mohamed Abdulkadir
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:375
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  8. Hypertension is the most frequent co-morbidity in patients with covid-19 infection, and we might speculate that a specific blood group could play a key role in the clinical outcome of hypertensive patients wit...

    Authors: Celestino Sardu, Raffaele Marfella, Paolo Maggi, Vincenzo Messina, Paolo Cirillo, Vinicio Codella, Jessica Gambardella, Antonio Sardu, Gianluca Gatta, Gaetano Santulli and Giuseppe Paolisso
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:373
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  9. Different definitions have been proposed to categorize hypertension. We aimed to investigate the difference in prevalence of measures associated with hypertension according to the American College of Cardiolog...

    Authors: Mohsen Mirzaei, Masoud Mirzaei, Mojtaba Mirzaei and Behnam Bagheri
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:372
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  10. The association of myocardial bridge (MB) with cardiovascular risk and the possible cardiovascular risk factors remain unclear. This study aimed to explore the clinical characteristics and related factors of c...

    Authors: Wen Gao, Jiaxi Zhang, Fei Duan, Shujun Guo, Chun Chen, Liping Du, Jianquan Zhao and Zhihong Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:371
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  11. Cardiac rehabilitation is effective after coronary heart disease (CHD). However, risk factors remain, and patients report fear for recurrence during recovery. Problem-based learning is a pedagogical method, wh...

    Authors: Anita Kärner Köhler, Tiny Jaarsma, Pia Tingström and Staffan Nilsson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:370
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  12. It is unclear whether the offspring of subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) pregnant rats still have abnormal cardiac development, and whether early intervention with L-T4 can improve the abnormality of these offs...

    Authors: D. Xue, J. L. Sun and J. Yang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:369
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  14. Subclinical diastolic dysfunction is a precursor for developing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF); yet not all patients progress to HFpEF. Our objective was to evaluate clinical and echoca...

    Authors: Yvonne E. Kaptein, Ilya Karagodin, Hongquan Zuo, Yu Lu, Jun Zhang, John S. Kaptein and Jennifer L. Strande
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:367
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  15. Cigarette smoking is an important risk factor for cardiac diseases. In the current study, we sought to assess the effect of electronic cigarette extract (ECE) and conventional cigarette smoke extract (CSE) on ...

    Authors: Hesham Basma, Swetha Tatineni, Kajari Dhar, Fang Qiu, Stephen Rennard and Brian D. Lowes
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:357
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  16. Regardless of patients’ baseline renal function, worsening renal function (WRF) during hospitalization is associated with poor outcomes. In individuals with acute heart failure (AHF), one predictor of WRF is a...

    Authors: Makoto Takeuchi, Michiaki Nagai, Keigo Dote, Masaya Kato, Noboru Oda, Eiji Kunita, Eisuke Kagawa, Aya Yamane, Yusuke Kobayashi, Haruko Shiota, Ayano Osawa and Hiroshi Kobatake
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:366
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  17. Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is an acute life-threatening cardiovascular disease, which is frequently complicated with oxygenation impairment (OI). We aim to investigate predictors of the development of OI in...

    Authors: Xuemin Zhao and Mengjun Bie
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:365
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  18. Health literacy on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) plays an effective role in preventing or delaying the disease onset as well as in impacting the efficacy of their management. In view of the projected low heal...

    Authors: Pedro Pallangyo, Nsajigwa Misidai, Makrina Komba, Zabella Mkojera, Happiness J. Swai, Naairah R. Hemed, Henry Mayala, Smita Bhalia, Jalack Millinga, Upendo W. Mollel, Happiness L. Kusima, Ester Chavala, Ziada Joram, Halifa Abdallah, Rajabu Hamisi and Mohamed Janabi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:364
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  19. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common arrhythmia, which brings huge burden to the individual and the society. However, the mechanism of AF is not clear. This paper aims at screening the key differ...

    Authors: Yueheng Liu, Rui Tang, Ye Zhao, Xuan Jiang, Yuchao Wang and Tianxiang Gu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:363
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  20. Computed tomography feature tracking (CT-FT) has emerged as a valuable method for the assessment of cardiac function. However, no studies have investigated the usefulness of CT-derived assessments of left vent...

    Authors: Xiaoyu Han, Yukun Cao, Zhiguo Ju, Jia Liu, Na Li, Yumin Li, Tong Liu, Heshui Shi and Jin Gu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:362
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  21. To investigate the relationship between an increase in the pre- and post-operative mean platelet volume (MPV) and superficial femoral artery in-stent restenosis (ISR) rate.

    Authors: Yao Bo Yang, Jing Shen, Sheng Hai Wang, Jian Bo Song, Fangfang Ge, Jia Pei Xie, Jiang Shuai Qu, Xin Zu Mao, Zhao Cheng Kuang, Nan Shang, Xiang Wang, Ye Jun Wu, Fan Yang, Yue Yuan, Hongxin Wang, Jun Sun…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:361
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  22. Neprilysin has an essential role in regulating fluid balance and vascular resistance, and neprilysin inhibitors have shown beneficial effects in patients with heart failure. However, the potential predictive v...

    Authors: Ik Jun Choi, Sungmin Lim, Youngdeok Hwang, Dongjae Lee, Won Jik Lee, Kwan Yong Lee, Mi-Jeong Kim and Doo Soo Jeon
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:360
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  23. Cardiac tamponade is a potentially fatal complication after catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias. It often happens during or shortly after the procedure and needs urgent treatment. Here, we present a v...

    Authors: Xiaoyong Xu, Xianghong Meng and Fusheng Ma
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:359
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  24. Increased urinary excretion of IgM and low-grade albuminuria are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between...

    Authors: Per Swärd, Rafid Tofik, Omran Bakoush, Ole Torffvit, Peter M. Nilsson and Anders Christensson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:358
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  25. Transradial access (TRA) has been considered as the default choice in cardiac catheterization. Although infrequent, vascular complications of this approach remain. Recently, the distal transradial approach (dT...

    Authors: Gaojun Cai, Haomin Huang, Feng Li, Ganwei Shi, Xiaolong Yu and Lei Yu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:356
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) experience abnormality of intracardiac blood flow status during early-stages of disease. Left ventricular energy loss (EL) derived from vector flow mapping (VFM) repr...

    Authors: Xiaoxue Chen, Yueheng Wang, Wei Wang, Lijun Yuan, Zhengqin Qi and Degang Song
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:355
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  27. While single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is a well-established noninvasive procedure for the evaluation of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), it is ...

    Authors: Ronen Goldkorn, Alexey Naimushin, Eli Rozen and Dov Freimark
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:354
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  28. Determining the risk factors for brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) may help to identify people susceptible to diabetic atherosclerosis and could prevent diabetic macrovascular complications in the ear...

    Authors: Kuo Liu, Junfeng Xu, Lixin Tao, Kun Yang, Yang Sun and Xiuhua Guo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:353
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  30. To investigate the clinical value of heart failure echocardiography index (HFEI) in evaluating the cardiac function and predicting the prognosis of patients with different types of heart failure (HF).

    Authors: Jian-Shu Chen, Ying Pei, Cai-e Li, Ning-yin Li, Tao Guo and Jing Yu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:351
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  32. Self-care behavior has been reported to be below optimum in persons with heart failure, while the underlying decision making is not well understood. The Hot/Cool System model is a psychological model that may ...

    Authors: Mohammed Munther Al-Hammouri, Jehad A. Rababah, Lynne A. Hall, Debra K. Moser, Zainab Dawood, Wa’ed Jawhar and Ayat Alawawdeh
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:349
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  34. There is uncertain evidence in the dose-response association between overall physical activity levels and clustering of cardiovascular diseases modifiable risk factors (CVDMRF) in Chinese adults. This study ex...

    Authors: Rui Shi, Yamei Cai, Rui Qin, Yang Yan and Dahai Yu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:347
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  35. The no-reflow phenomenon (NRP) is a serious complication of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) and is an independent predictor of poor prognosis. We aimed to find a simple but effective risk str...

    Authors: Qin-Yao Zhang, Shu-Mei Ma and Jia-Ying Sun
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:346
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  36. Evaluating knowledge in patients with coronary artery disease requires a specific measure. The aim of the present study was to translate and evaluate the CADE-Q in patients with coronary artery disease in Iran.

    Authors: Zahra Marofi, Razieh Bandari, Majideh Heravi-Karimooi, Nahid Rejeh and Ali Montazeri
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:345
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  37. The clinical symptoms and adverse events caused by pacemaker battery depletion are not uncommon, but it is easy to miss or misdiagnose them clinically. To raise the level of awareness towards this clinical sit...

    Authors: Junpeng Liu, Li Wen, Simin Yao, Peipei Zheng, Shuang Zhao and Jiefu Yang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:344
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  38. There are few reports in the literature of device closure of residual shunts following initial surgical closure of an atrial septal defect (ASD). This case study reports one such case. We describe here a case ...

    Authors: Xicheng Deng, Taoyue Yao, Yefeng Wang, Guangxian Yang, Wenjuan Chen, Peng Huang and Zhi Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:343
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  39. De Winter syndrome accounts for approximately 2% of all patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction admitted to the emergency department, and is characterized by severe stenosis of the left anterior des...

    Authors: Bo Lu, Deyu Fu, Xunjie Zhou, Mingtai Gui, Lei Yao and Jianhua Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:342
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  40. The relationships of renal dysfunction (RD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) with prognosis have been well established among non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) patients who receive percutaneou...

    Authors: Wei Chen, Pengyuan Chen, Zhonghan Ni, Yuanhui Liu, Wei Guo, Lei Jiang, Xuebiao Wei, Jiyan Chen, Ning Tan, Pengcheng He and Yansong Guo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:341
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  41. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a complex disease resulting from the cumulative and interactive effects of large number of genes along with environmental exposure. Therefore, the present study was envisaged a...

    Authors: Jyotdeep Kour Raina, Minakashee Sharma, Rakesh Kumar Panjaliya, Vikas Dogra, Ashok Bakaya and Parvinder Kumar
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:340
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  42. The efficacy and safety of ambrisentan has been previously evaluated in Chinese patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). This post-hoc analysis assessed the efficacy and safety of ambrisentan in a ...

    Authors: Mengtao Li, Zhi-Cheng Jing, Yang Li, Yong Huo, Zaixin Yu, Gangcheng Zhang, Ping Zhu, Jinming Liu, Qiushang Ji, Bingxiang Wu, Jinhua Zhong, Pingping Wang, Wenjing Zhu and Xiaofeng Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:339
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  43. The association between the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) and prognosis in the patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is not fully understood. We performed this systematic review and meta-analysis to...

    Authors: Xiao-Qing Quan, Run-Chang Wang, Qing Zhang, Cun-Tai Zhang and Lei Sun
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:338
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  44. High blood glucose impairs voltage-gated K+ (Kv) channel-mediated vasodilation in rat coronary artery smooth muscle cells (CSMCs) via oxidative stress. Advanced glycation end product (AGE) and receptor for AGE (R...

    Authors: Side Gao, Bing Hua, Qingbo Liu, Huirong Liu, Weiping Li and Hongwei Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:337
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  45. Patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are at high risk of recurrent cardiovascular (CV) event. The European guidelines recommend low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels < 1.8 mmol/L and early ...

    Authors: Marie Skov Kristensen, Anders Green, Mads Nybo, Simone Møller Hede, Kristian Handberg Mikkelsen, Gunnar Gislason, Mogens Lytken Larsen and Annette Kjær Ersbøll
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:336
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  46. To detect the right atrial (RA) functions in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients by using volume-derived values and two-dimensional strain.

    Authors: Jun Huang, Chao Yang, Cai-Fang Ni, Zi-Ning Yan, Li Fan and Xiang-Ting Song
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:335
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  47. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality with incidence rates of 5–10 per 1000 person-years, according to primary prevention studies. To control hyperlipidemia—a major risk factor...

    Authors: Hsin-Yin Hsu, Chien-Ju Lin, Yu-Shan Lee, Ting-Hui Wu and Kuo-Liong Chien
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:334
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  48. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is associated with considerable mortality and morbidity worldwide. The present study explored the risk factors for arterial calcification among the different sections of the l...

    Authors: Hankun Yan, Zhihui Chang and Zhaoyu Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:333
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  49. The activity of autonomic nervous system and its association with organ damage have not been entirely elucidated in hemorrhagic shock. The aim of this study was to investigate heart rate variability (HRV) and ...

    Authors: Fateme Khodadadi, Aminollah Bahaoddini, Alireza Tavassoli and Farzaneh Ketabchi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:331
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  50. Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is an angiographic finding of abnormal coronary dilatation. Inflammation plays a major role in all phases of atherosclerosis. We investigated the relationship between CAE and seru...

    Authors: Cheng-Hui Fan, Ying Hao, Yong-Hua Liu, Xiao-Lin Li, Zhen-Hao Huang, Yu Luo and Rui-Lin Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 20:330
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