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  1. Measures of abdominal adiposity are strongly associated with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, data are limited and conflicting regarding the consequences of changes in body fat di...

    Authors: Angela A. Mulligan, Marleen A. H. Lentjes, Robert N. Luben, Nicholas J. Wareham and Kay-Tee Khaw
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:238
  2. Care coordination between general practitioners (GPs) and cardiovascular specialists is expected to play a key role in establishing appropriate oral anticoagulant (OAC) treatment in atrial fibrillation (AF) pa...

    Authors: Fumiko Ono, Sayako Akiyama, Akifumi Suzuki, Yoshinobu Ikeda, Akira Takahashi, Hitoshi Matsuoka, Masahiro Sasaki, Tomonori Okamura and Nariaki Yoshihara
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:235
  3. The risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and coronary artery disease (CAD) is an important and inadequately addressed issue. Our aim is to examine the impact of DM on...

    Authors: Sadaf Kamil, Thomas S. G. Sehested, Nicholas Carlson, Kim Houlind, Jens F. Lassen, Casper N. Bang, Helena Dominguez, Christian T. Pedersen and Gunnar H. Gislason
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:234
  4. Ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) arising from the origin above pulmonary valve lack comprehensive investigation. This study aimed to disclose the characteristics and radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) outcom...

    Authors: Jin Li, Cheng Zheng, Zhi-Rui Liu, Jun Ma, Ge Jin, Wei-Qian Lin, Yao-Yao Wang and Jia-Feng Lin
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:233
  5. Acute myocarditis (AM) can be defined as an inflammatory disease of the myocardium and characterized by large heterogeneity of clinical presentation. Myocarditis is becoming increasingly recognized as a contri...

    Authors: Fatih Mehmet Ucar, Cihan Ozturk and Mustafa Adem Yılmaztepe
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:232
  6. Hypertension management in rural, resource-poor settings is difficult. Detailed understanding of patient, clinician and logistic factors which pose barriers to effective blood pressure control could enable str...

    Authors: J. P. Sibomana, R. L. McNamara and T. D. Walker
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:231
  7. Because of previous ventricular arrhythmia (VA) episodes, patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) for secondary prevention (SP) are generally considered to have a higher burden of VAs than p...

    Authors: You Zhou, Shuang Zhao, Keping Chen, Wei Hua, Yangang Su, Silin Chen, Zhaoguang Liang, Wei Xu and Shu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:230
  8. Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and studies have shown higher mortality rates and premature death in South Asian countries. The occurrence and effect of risk facto...

    Authors: Udaya Ralapanawa, Pallegoda Vithanage Ranjith Kumarasiri, Kushalee Poornima Jayawickreme, Prabashini Kumarihamy, Yapa Wijeratne, Madhushanka Ekanayake and Chandira Dissanayake
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:229
  9. Large animal models are important in atrial fibrillation (AF) research, as they can be used to study the pathophysiology of AF and new therapeutic approaches. Unlike other animal models, horses spontaneously d...

    Authors: Eva Zander Hesselkilde, Helena Carstensen, Mette Flethøj, Merle Fenner, Ditte Dybvald Kruse, Stefan M. Sattler, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Steen Pehrson, Thomas Hartig Braunstein, Jonas Carlson, Pyotr G. Platonov, Thomas Jespersen and Rikke Buhl
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:228
  10. After publication of the original article [1], we were notified that an author’s name is not complete.

    Authors: Leon L. Lutschinger, Angelos G. Rigopoulos, Peter Schlattmann, Marios Matiakis, Daniel Sedding, Paul Christian Schulze and Michel Noutsias
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:227

    The original article was published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:207

  11. The new generation thinner-strut silicon carbide (SiC) coated cobalt chromium (CoCr) bare-metal stents (BMS) are designed to accelerate rapid endothelialisation and reduce thrombogenicity when implanted in cor...

    Authors: Kim Wadt Hansen, Raban Jeger, Rikke Sørensen, Christoph Kaiser, Matthias Pfisterer, Tor Biering-Sørensen, Louise Hougesen Bjerking and Søren Galatius
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:226
  12. In odontology, panoramic radiographs (PRs) are regularly performed. PRs depict the teeth and jaws as well as carotid artery calcifications (CACs). Patients with CACs on PRs have an increased risk of vascular e...

    Authors: Maria Garoff, Jan Ahlqvist, Linda-Tereza Edin, Sofia Jensen, Eva Levring Jäghagen, Fredrik Petäjäniemi, Per Wester and Elias Johansson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:225
  13. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most significant health challenges facing women today. Abuse is a serious gendered issue also affecting the health of women. Despite beginning evidence that abuse may...

    Authors: Kelly A. Scott-Storey, Marilyn Hodgins and Judith Wuest
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:224
  14. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a complex disease caused by multi-factors and a major threat to human health. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have critical roles in various biological processes and diseases. This stu...

    Authors: Yi Sun, Rong Chen, Shaowei Lin, Xiaoxu Xie, Hailing Ye, Fuli Zheng, Jie Lin, Qing Huang, Shuna Huang, Qishuang Ruan, Tingxing Zhang, Huangyuan Li and Siying Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:223
  15. Transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects is one of the greatest challenges in interventional cardiology. Short- and midium-term follow-up data for large samples are limited. This repo...

    Authors: Hao Li, Youyang Shi, Songyue Zhang, Yue Ren, Xing Rong, Zhenquan Wang, Tianhe Xia, Tingting Wu, Haitang Xu, Yaoyao Yan, Yi Zhan, Maoping Chu and Rongzhou Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:222
  16. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have recently been identified as mediators in atherothrombosis. Although NETosis in general has been suggested to be glucose dependent, the transferability to patients wit...

    Authors: Ragnhild Helseth, Eva Cecilie Knudsen, Jan Eritsland, Trine Baur Opstad, Harald Arnesen, Geir Øystein Andersen and Ingebjørg Seljeflot
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:221
  17. Patients with reduced ejection fraction have high rates of mortality and readmission after hospitalization for heart failure. In Taiwan, heart failure disease management programs (HFDMPs) have proven effective...

    Authors: Shyh-Ming Chen, Yen-Nan Fang, Lin-Yi Wang, Ming-Kung Wu, Po-Jui Wu, Tsung-Hsun Yang, Yung-Lung Chen and Chi-Ling Hang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:220
  18. Cardiac fibrosis is a crucial aspect of cardiac remodeling that can severely affect cardiac function. Cardiac fibroblasts surely influence this process. Besides, macrophage plays an essential role in cardiac r...

    Authors: Yan Che, Di-Fei Shen, Zhao-Peng Wang, Ya-Ge Jin, Qing-Qing Wu, Sha-Sha Wang and Yuan Yuan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:219
  19. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. Some studies have suggested anassociation between serum uric acid levels and cardiovascular mortality; however, the results have not been s...

    Authors: Fatemeh Rahimi-Sakak, Mahsa Maroofi, Jamal Rahmani, Nick Bellissimo and Azita Hekmatdoost
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:218
  20. Cardiac power output (CPO), derived from the product of cardiac output and mean aortic pressure, is an important yet underexploited parameter for hemodynamic monitoring of critically ill patients in the intens...

    Authors: Dawud Abawi, Alessandro Faragli, Michael Schwarzl, Martin Manninger, David Zweiker, Karl-Patrik Kresoja, Jochen Verderber, Birgit Zirngast, Heinrich Maechler, Paul Steendijk, Burkert Pieske, Heiner Post and Alessio Alogna
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:217
  21. Infantile hepatic hemangioma (IHH) is a rare endothelial cell neoplasm, which may be concurrent with severe complications and result in poor outcomes. Moreover, the coexistence of IHH and congenial heart disea...

    Authors: Xin-tong Zhang, Wei-dong Ren, Guang Song, Yang-jie Xiao, Fei-fei Sun and Nan Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:216
  22. There is limited information regarding left atrial (LA) mechanics in aortic valve stenosis (AS). We assessed LA mechanics in AS through speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) according to severity and prognosis.

    Authors: Patrícia Marques-Alves, Ana Vera Marinho, Rogério Teixeira, Rui Baptista, Graça Castro, Rui Martins and Lino Gonçalves
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:215
  23. First-degree atrioventricular block (AVB) has traditionally been regarded as a benign condition but recent studies have challenged this conception. Prevalence of 1–2% have been reported in developed countries ...

    Authors: Zhi Du, Liying Xing, Min Lin, Yuanmeng Tian, Li Jing, Han Yan, Boqiang Zhang, Shuang Liu, Shiwen Yu and Yingxian Sun
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:214
  24. The role of apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) in lipid metabolism has been well established, and APOE is associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes mellitus (DM). However, the relationshi...

    Authors: Sudong Liu, Jing Liu, Ruiqiang Weng, Xiaodong Gu and Zhixiong Zhong
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:213
  25. Smoking is a strong risk factor for cancer and atherosclerosis. Cancer mortality, especially from lung cancer, overtakes cardiovascular (CV) death rate in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Only ...

    Authors: Alexandra Yannoutsos, Manon Fontaine, Alexandre Galloula, Diane Damotte, Gilles Chatellier, Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot, Guy Meyer, Jean Pastre, Véronique Duchatelle, Valéria Marini, Karl-Léo Schwering, Isabelle Lazareth, Parinaz Ghaffari, Audrey Stansal, Hélène Sanson, Cécile Labrousse…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:212
  26. Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) is a procedure applied in a limb for triggering endogenous protective pathways in distant organs, namely brain or heart. The underlying mechanisms of RIC are still not fully ...

    Authors: Daniel Noronha Osório, Ricardo Viana-Soares, João Pedro Marto, Marcelo D. Mendonça, Hugo P. Silva, Cláudia Quaresma, Miguel Viana-Baptista, Hugo Gamboa and Helena L. A. Vieira
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:211
  27. The purpose of this study was to analyze cardiopulmonary fitness in Phase I cardiac rehabilitation on the prognosis of patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) after percutaneous coronary inter...

    Authors: He Cai, Yang Zheng, Zhaoxi Liu, Xinying Zhang, Rongyu Li, Wangshu Shao, Lin Wang, Lin Zou and Pengyu Cao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:210
  28. Heart failure (HF) with mid-range ejection fraction (EF) (HFmrEF) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, the understanding of HFmrEF remains limited, especially among Asian patients. Ther...

    Authors: Siqi Lyu, Litian Yu, Huiqiong Tan, Shaoshuai Liu, Xiaoning Liu, Xiao Guo and Jun Zhu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:209
  29. Percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery bifurcation disease (CABD) remains challenging. In patients of CABD with situations that two-stent strategy is needed, the culotte technique is a widely u...

    Authors: Chih-Feng Chang, Keng-Hao Chang, Chih-Hung Lai, Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Tsun-Jui Liu, Wen-Lieng Lee and Chieh-Shou Su
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:208
  30. Colchicine has been used as anti-inflammatory agent in pericardial effusion (PE). We sought to perform a meta-analysis of randomized trials assessing the efficacy and safety of colchicine in patients with peri...

    Authors: Leon L. Lutschinger, Angelos G. Rigopoulos, Peter Schlattmann, Marios Matiakis, Daniel Sedding, Paul Christian Schulze and Michel Noutsias
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:207

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:227

  31. Little was known about the different predictive power of blood pressure (BP) parameters (SBP, systolic BP; mean arterial pressure, MAP; pulse pressure, PP; and diastolic BP, DBP) and stroke incidence. This stu...

    Authors: Jia Zheng, Zhaoqing Sun, Xiaofan Guo, Yanxia Xie, Yingxian Sun and Liqiang Zheng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:206
  32. Obesity has nearly tripled worldwide during the last four decades, especially in young adults, and is of growing concern since it is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). We explored how different b...

    Authors: Ulrika Fernberg, Jos op ‘t Roodt, Maria Fernström and Anita Hurtig-Wennlöf
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:205
  33. Several studies on the growth rates of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in Chinese population have been conducted; however, this issue remains unclear. The aim of this study is to systematically review publishe...

    Authors: Tingting Huang, Shuai Liu, Jianhua Huang, Baohui Xu, Yongping Bai and Wei Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:204
  34. Cellular therapies have been increasingly applied to diverse human diseases. Intracoronary infusion of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BMMNC) has demonstrated to improve ventricular function after acute...

    Authors: Miguel Romero, José Suárez-de-Lezo, Concha Herrera, Manuel Pan, José López-Aguilera, José Suárez-de-Lezo Jr, Flor Baeza-Garzón, Francisco Javier Hidalgo-Lesmes, Olga Fernández-López, Juliana Martínez-Atienza, Eva Cebrián, Vanesa Martín-Palanco, Rosario Jiménez-Moreno, Rosario Gutiérrez-Fernández, Sonia Nogueras, Maria Dolores Carmona…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:203
  35. The present study aimed to expound the association between the XK related 6 gene (XKR6) rs7819412 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and serum lipid profiles and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and is...

    Authors: Peng-Fei Zheng, Rui-Xing Yin, Guo-Xiong Deng, Yao-Zong Guan, Bi-Liu Wei and Chun-Xiao Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:202
  36. Using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging, we examined the effects of ezetimibe/simvastatin 10/10 mg versus rosuvastatin 10 mg on carotid atherosclerot...

    Authors: Minyoung Oh, Hyunji Kim, Eon Woo Shin, Changhwan Sung, Do-Hoon Kim, Dae Hyuk Moon and Cheol Whan Lee
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:201
  37. This study examines how prevalence and clustering of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors differ by ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) among rural southwest Chinese adults.

    Authors: Li Hui-Fang, Le Cai, Xu-Ming Wang and Allison Rabkin Golden
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:200
  38. Pregnancy-associated Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is one of the most common causes of maternal morbidity and mortality in developed countries. In this study, we aimed to systematically review and critical appr...

    Authors: Jie Zheng, Qinchang Chen, Jing Fu, Yanling Lu, Tianjun Han and Ping He
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:199
  39. Premature infants may present with damage to the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which may be related to poorer neurological development. Among the techniques used to evaluate the ANS, heart rate variability (...

    Authors: Luiz Fernando Martins de Souza Filho, Jordana Campos Martins de Oliveira, Mayara Kelly Alves Ribeiro, Marcelo Cozac Moura, Nelson David Fernandes, Rafael Dias de Sousa, Gustavo Rodrigues Pedrino and Ana Cristina Silva Rebelo
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:198
  40. Cardiac pacing is a growing activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is little data on the characteristics of this interventional treatment in our regions. The goal was to evaluate the results of cardiac pacing i...

    Authors: Adama Kane, Simon Antoine Sarr, Juliette Valerie Danièle Ndobo, Alioune Tabane, Kana Babaka, Fatou Aw, Malick Bodian, Serigne Mor Beye, Momar Dioum, Aliou Alassane Ngaidé, Mouhamadou Bamba Ndiaye, Alassane Mbaye, Maboury Diao, Abdoul Kane and Serigne Abdou BA
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:197
  41. Left atrial appendage closure is increasingly used. LAA closure procedures can rarely be complicated by device embolization, typically towards the aorta. In this case report, we describe the successful percuta...

    Authors: Manik Chopra, Yam-Hong Wong, Lars Søndergaard and Ole De Backer
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:196
  42. In patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an unfavorable outcome and may cause loss of biventricular pacing (BivP). An effective delivery of BivP of ...

    Authors: Jonatan Jacobsson, Christian Reitan, Jonas Carlson, Rasmus Borgquist and Pyotr G. Platonov
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:195
  43. Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) are an underutilized therapy for heart failure with a reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), but the current impact of hospitalization on MRA use is not well characteri...

    Authors: Matthew S. Durstenfeld, Stuart D. Katz, Hannah Park and Saul Blecker
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:194
  44. This study aimed to investigate the effect of long non-coding RNA nuclear enriched abundant transcript 1 (lnc-NEAT1) on cell proliferation and apoptosis in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury cells, a...

    Authors: Lingyun Ren, Shanshan Chen, Wei Liu, Pan Hou, Wei Sun and Hong Yan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:192
  45. Swallow or deglutition syncope is an unusual type of neurally-mediated syncope associated with life-threatening bradyarrhythmia and hypotension. It is a difficult condition to diagnose with commonly delayed di...

    Authors: Kelvin Shenq Woei Siew, Maw Pin Tan, Ida Normiha Hilmi and Alexander Loch
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:191
  46. Development of instruments capable of detecting early stage vascular disease has increased interest in employing arterial stiffness (e.g. pulse wave velocity (PWV), augmentation index (AIx)) and endothelial dy...

    Authors: Raissa Perrault, Alexander Omelchenko, Carla G. Taylor and Peter Zahradka
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:190
  47. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is an effective therapeutic strategy for coronary heart disease (CHD). Myocardial longitudinal strain echocardiography with 2D speckle tracking could obtain ventricu...

    Authors: Anna Gozdzik, Krzysztof Letachowicz, Barbara Barteczko Grajek, Tomasz Plonek, Marta Obremska, Marek Jasinski and Waldemar Gozdzik
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:189
  48. It is uncertain whether the coronary lesion with intermediate stenosis is more likely to cause cardiovascular events than a normal or minimal lesion. We conducted a single-center, prospective cohort study to i...

    Authors: Young Hoon Seo, Yong-Kyun Kim, In Geol Song, Ki-Hong Kim, Taek-Geun Kwon and Jang-Ho Bae
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2019 19:187

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