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  1. Personal resources are identified as important for the ability to return to work (RTW) for patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) or heart failure (HF) undergoing cardiac rehabilitation (CR). The patient ...

    Authors: Birgitte Laier Bitsch, Claus Vinther Nielsen, Christina Malmose Stapelfeldt and Vibeke Lynggaard
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:101
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  2. Aortic regurgitation (AR) is a valvular disease that can lead to systolic heart failure. Treatment options besides cardiac surgery are limited and consequently severe AR is associated with higher mortality and...

    Authors: Bachar El-Oumeiri, Kathleen Mc Entee, Filippo Annoni, Antoine Herpain, Frédéric Vanden Eynden, Pascal Jespers, Guido Van Nooten and Philippe van de Borne
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:99
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  3. Reduced physical performance and impaired mobility are common in elderly patients after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and they represent independent risk factors for disability, morbidity, hospital readmission...

    Authors: Elisabetta Tonet, Elisa Maietti, Giorgio Chiaranda, Francesco Vitali, Matteo Serenelli, Giulia Bugani, Gianni Mazzoni, Rossella Ruggiero, Jonathan Myers, Giovanni Quinto Villani, Ursula Corvi, Giovanni Pasanisi, Simone Biscaglia, Rita Pavasini, Giulia Ricci Lucchi, Gianluigi Sella…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:98
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  4. Patient preferences are key parameters to evaluate benefit-harm balance of statins for primary prevention but they are not readily available to guideline developers and decision makers. Our study aimed to elic...

    Authors: Henock G. Yebyo, Hélène E. Aschmann, Tsung Yu and Milo A. Puhan
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:97
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  5. The anticoagulation of atrial fibrillation catheter ablation during the perioperative stage does matter and should be treated with discretion. We aimed to assess impact of three important genes participating i...

    Authors: Jiao Li, Wenlong Yang, Zhonghui Xie, Kun Yu, Yuhua Chen and Kaijun Cui
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:96
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  6. Hong Kong (HK) and Guangzhou (GZ) are cities in China with different healthcare systems. This study aimed to compare 30-day and 6-month mortality and characteristics of patients with suspected cardiac chest pa...

    Authors: Huilin Jiang, Yunmei Li, Junrong Mo, Xiaohui Chen, Min Li, Peiyi Lin, Kevin K. C. Hung, Timothy H. Rainer and Colin A. Graham
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:95
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  7. The risk factors for peripheral artery disease (PAD) are more common in Indigenous than non-Indigenous Australians, however the presentation and outcome of PAD in Indigenous Australians has not been previously...

    Authors: Tejas P. Singh, Joseph V. Moxon, Genevieve N. Healy, Yvonne Cadet-James and Jonathan Golledge
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:94
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  8. Mitral regurgitation in ischemic heart disease (IMR) is a strong predictor of outcome but until now, pathophysiology is not sufficiently understood and treatment is not satisfying. We aimed to systematically e...

    Authors: Caroline Morbach, Diego Bellavia, Stefan Störk and Lissa Sugeng
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:93
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  9. Diabetes is among the strongest predictors of outcome after coronary artery stenting and the incidence of negative outcomes is still high in this specific group. Data of long-term outcomes comparing diabetic p...

    Authors: Remzi Anadol, Katharina Schnitzler, Liv Lorenz, Melissa Weissner, Helen Ullrich, Alberto Polimeni, Thomas Münzel and Tommaso Gori
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:92
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  10. The inter-relationships of atrial fibrillation (AF) to retinal vascular occlusions (whether retinal artery occlusion (RAO) or retinal venous occlusion (RVO)) remain unclear. It is unknown if a presentation of ...

    Authors: Christine Benn Christiansen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Jonas Bjerring Olesen, Gunnar Gislason, Morten Lamberts, Nicholas Carlson, Mathias Buron, Nikolai Juul and Gregory Y. H. Lip
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:91
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  11. Cardiac computed tomography (CT) is often performed in patients who are at high risk for lung cancer in whom screening is currently recommended. We tested diagnostic ability and radiation exposure of a novel u...

    Authors: Carlo Gaudio, Gennaro Petriello, Francesco Pelliccia, Alessandra Tanzilli, Alberto Bandiera, Gaetano Tanzilli, Francesco Barillà, Vincenzo Paravati, Massimo Pellegrini, Enrico Mangieri and Paolo Barillari
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:90
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  12. The skeletal muscle mass-to-visceral fat area ratio (SVR) has been linked to arterial stiffness in non-diabetic adults. We examined the association between the SVR and arterial stiffness in patients with type ...

    Authors: Jing Xu, Xiaoyan Pan, Haili Liang, Yi Lin, Yilian Hong, Qiya Si, Feixia Shen and Xuejiang Gu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:89
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  13. Despite current interest in the unfavorable impact of nontraditional lipid profiles on cardiovascular disease, information regarding its relations to abnormal left ventricular (LV) geometry has not been system...

    Authors: Haoyu Wang, Zhao Li, Xiaofan Guo, Yintao Chen, Ye Chang, Shuang Chen and Yingxian Sun
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:88
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  14. Data on left ventricular (LV) function in patients with neurocardiogenic syncope (NS) is conflicting in adults and lacking in children. The aim of this study was to analyze LV myocardial performance in childre...

    Authors: Kai O. Hensel, Markus Roskopf, Francisca Abellan Schneyder and Andreas Heusch
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:87
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  15. Myocardial apoptosis is important in the pathogenesis and progression of myocardial infarction-induced heart failure (MI-HF). Renal sympathetic denervation (RDN) has become a promising therapeutic strategy for...

    Authors: Li Wang, Lijun Song, Chao Li, Qiaoli Feng, Mengping Xu, Zhuqing Li and Chengzhi Lu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:86
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  16. Cilostazol has been associated with spontaneous reports of cardiovascular adverse events and serious bleeding. The objective of this study is to determine the relative risk of cardiovascular adverse events or ...

    Authors: Jordi Real, M Catalina Serna, Maria Giner-Soriano, Rosa Forés, Guillem Pera, Esther Ribes, Maite Alzamora, Josep Ramon Marsal, Antonio Heras and Rosa Morros
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:85
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  17. To compare the reproducibility in total cholesterol (TC), systolic blood pressure (BP), and the resulting Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) obtained by an in-office cardio-preventive screening progra...

    Authors: Sabina Ulbricht, Stefan Gross, Eva Brammen, Franziska Weymar, Ulrich John, Christian Meyer and Marcus Dörr
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:84
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  18. Increased arterial stiffness (iAS) and microalbuminuria (MAU), which may occur simultaneously or separately in the general population and share similar risk factors, are markers of macro- and microvascular inj...

    Authors: Rujia Miao, Liuxin Wu, Ping Ni, Yue Zeng and Zhiheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:83
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  19. Although rheumatic heart disease remains the leading cause of valve heart disease (VHD) in developing countries, other forms of valve disease have been over shadowed and not regarded as a public health problem...

    Authors: Joselyn Rwebembera, William Manyilirah, Zhang Wan Zhu, Juliet Nabbaale, Judith Namuyonga, Isaac Ssinabulya, Sulaiman Lubega, Peter Lwabi, John Omagino and Emmy Okello
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:82
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  20. Currently, many methodological approaches have been developed to assess peripheral endothelial function. However, a development of the noninvasive and automated technique for routinely assessing endothelial fu...

    Authors: Daoyuan Si, Lujia Ni, Yunfei Wang, Jinsha Liu, Jining Yang and Ping Yang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:81
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  21. Due to a relative lack of outpatient heart failure (HF) clinical registries, we aimed to describe symptoms, signs, and medication treatment among ambulatory patients with heart failure (HF) over time.

    Authors: Larry A. Allen, Fengming Tang, Philip Jones, Tracie Breeding, Angelo Ponirakis and Stuart J. Turner
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:80
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  22. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a risk factor for cognitive impairment in the elderly. Manifestations of subclinical CVDs can be found in patients with cognitive impairment. The aim of the present study was to...

    Authors: Heng Ma, Jun Yang, Haizhu Xie, Jing Liu, Fang Wang, Xiao Xu, Wei Bai and Kai Lin
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:79
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  23. Due to limitations associated with clopidogrel following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), other newer oral anti-platelet agents are being studied. We aimed to systematically carry out a direct compari...

    Authors: Pravesh Kumar Bundhun and Feng Huang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:78
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  24. The benefits of supervised physical activity programs in cardiac rehabilitation have been amply demonstrated, but the quantity of physical activity often declines quickly once supervision ends. This trial asse...

    Authors: Marion Fournier, Rémi Radel, Laurent Bailly, Christian Pradier, Roxane Fabre, Alain Fuch, Philippe Mossé, Jean-Jacques Domerego, Jocelyn Gal and Fabienne d’Arripe-Longueville
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:77
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  25. Functional impairment of the aorta is a recognized complication of aortic and aortic valve disease. Aortic strain measurement provides effective quantification of mechanical aortic function, and 3-dimenional (...

    Authors: Alessandro Satriano, Zachary Guenther, James A. White, Naeem Merchant, Elena S. Di Martino, Faisal Al-Qoofi, Carmen P. Lydell and Nowell M. Fine
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:76
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  26. The neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is an indicator of systemic inflammation and a prognostic marker in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). This study aims to investigate the value of NLR to pred...

    Authors: Sai Zhang, Jun Diao, Chunmei Qi, Jingjing Jin, Li Li, Xingjuan Gao, Lei Gong and Weiheng Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:75
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  28. Centenarians refer to a special group who have outlived most of their fellows. Body shape and abdominal obesity have been identified as cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Our study aimed to evaluate th...

    Authors: Qiao Zhu, Xiao-Bing Wang, Yao Yao, Chao-Xue Ning, Xiao-Ping Chen, Fu-Xin Luan and Ya-Li Zhao
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:73
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  30. There is a lack of data on anticoagulation requirements during ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF). This study compares different oral anticoagulation (OAC) strategies to evaluate risk of bleeding and thrombo...

    Authors: Maria Brinkmeier-Theofanopoulou, Panagiotis Tzamalis, Susan Wehrkamp-Richter, Andrea Radzewitz, Matthias Merkel, Gerhard Schymik, Gesine van Mark, Peter Bramlage, Claus Schmitt and Armin Luik
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:71
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  31. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established therapy for appropriately selected patients with heart failure. Response to CRT has been heterogeneously defined using both clinical and echocardiograp...

    Authors: Z. Bakos, N. C. Chatterjee, C. Reitan, J. P. Singh and R. Borgquist
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:70
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  32. We aimed to evaluate the impact of thrombus aspiration (TA) during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (P-PCI) in ‘real-world’ settings.

    Authors: Hélder Pereira, Daniel Caldeira, Rui Campante Teles, Marco Costa, Pedro Canas da Silva, Vasco da Gama Ribeiro, Vítor Brandão, Dinis Martins, Fernando Matias, Francisco Pereira-Machado, José Baptista, Pedro Farto e Abreu, Ricardo Santos, António Drummond, Henrique Cyrne de Carvalho, João Calisto…
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:69
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  33. Metabolic syndrome is associated with cardio-metabolic risk factors and lipid abnormalities. Previous studies evaluated the dietary habits and nutrient intakes among patients with metabolic syndrome; however t...

    Authors: Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi and Leila Jahangiry
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:68
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  34. Maximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) is the gold-standard for cardiorespiratory fitness assessment in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. However, high costs, required medical supervision, and safe...

    Authors: Gianni Mazzoni, Biagio Sassone, Giovanni Pasanisi, Jonathan Myers, Simona Mandini, Stefano Volpato, Francesco Conconi, Giorgio Chiaranda and Giovanni Grazzi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:67
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  35. N-terminal pro B-type peptide (NT-proBNP) has been associated with risk of myocardial infarction (MI), but less is known about the relationship between NT-proBNP and very small non ST-elevation MI, also known ...

    Authors: Madeline R. Sterling, Raegan W. Durant, Joanna Bryan, Emily B. Levitan, Todd M. Brown, Yulia Khodneva, Stephen P. Glasser, Joshua S. Richman, George Howard, Mary Cushman and Monika M. Safford
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:66
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  37. A permanently indwelling filter in the inferior vena cava (IVC) may induce caval thrombosis, which could develop and evolve from an acute to a chronic phase. The differential diagnosis of acute and chronic thr...

    Authors: Liang Chen, Wanyin Shi, Jianping Gu, Xu He and Wensheng Lou
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:64
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  38. Small conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (SK channels) play a critical role in action potential repolarization in cardiomyocytes. Recently, the potential anti-arrhythmic effect of metformin in di...

    Authors: Xi Fu, Yilong Pan, Qian Cao, Bin Li, Shuo Wang, Hongjiao Du, Na Duan and Xiaodong Li
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:63
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  39. Despite current interest in the unfavorable impact of cardiometabolic index (CMI) and lipid accumulation product (LAP) on diabetes and cardiovascular risk, information regarding the relation of CMI and LAP to ...

    Authors: Haoyu Wang, Yingxian Sun, Zhao Li, Xiaofan Guo, Shuang Chen, Ning Ye, Yichen Tian and Lijun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:62
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  40. An unusual case of typical angina which occurred on a long haul flight is presented. This case is notable as this was the index presentation, with no previous symptoms prior to this. Physiological changes at a...

    Authors: Firas Al-Janabi, Regina Mammen, Grigoris Karamasis, John Davies and Thomas Keeble
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:61
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  41. There is a lack of information on the epidemiological data and risk factors associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in Chinese population. We reported the primary results from screening five-community ...

    Authors: Kun Li, Kewei Zhang, Tianxiao Li and Shuiting Zhai
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:60
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  42. Cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of premature death world-wide with factors like abdominal obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemia being central risk factors in the etiology. The aim of the pre...

    Authors: Matthias Lidin, Mai-Lis Hellénius, Monica Rydell-Karlsson and Elin Ekblom-Bak
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:59
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  43. The present study sought to explore the relationship of common cardiovascular disease risk factors and noncoding RNAs with essential hypertension (EH).

    Authors: Shiying Chen, Rong Chen, Tingxing Zhang, Shaowei Lin, Zhou Chen, Bi Zhao, Huangyuan Li and Siying Wu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:58
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  44. Heart failure (HF), the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the US, affects 6.6 million adults with an estimated additional 3 million people by 2030. More than 50% of HF patients have heart failure wit...

    Authors: Janet D. Pierce, Diane E. Mahoney, John B. Hiebert, Amanda R. Thimmesch, Francisco J. Diaz, Carol Smith, Qiuhua Shen, Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam and Richard L. Clancy
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:57
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  45. To study the oxygen uptake efficiency and determine usefulness of submaximal parameters of oxygen uptake in systemic lupus erythematosus associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (SLE PAH) on performing a car...

    Authors: Bigyan Pudasaini, Guo-ling Yang, Chen Yang, Jian Guo, Ping Yuan, Yang Wen-lan, Rui Zhang, Lan Wang, Qin-Hua Zhao, Su-Gang Gong, Rong Jiang, Tian-Xiang Chen, Xiong Wei and Jin-Ming Liu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:56
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  46. Severe aortic stenosis (AS) may lead to acute decompensated heart failure resistant to medical treatment. Here, we report a successful emergent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in a patient presen...

    Authors: Hongju Kim and Jung-Hee Lee
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:55
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  47. Recent hypotheses have suggested the pathophysiological role of catecholamines in the evolution of the Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). The extent of cardiac and circulatory compromise dictates the use of some form o...

    Authors: Uzair Ansari, Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Christian Fastner, Michael Behnes, Katherine Sattler, Aydin Huseynov, Stefan Baumann, Erol Tülümen, Martin Borggrefe and Ibrahim Akin
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:54
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  48. Valvular heart disease is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality, especially in China. More than a half of valvular heart diseases are caused by acute rheumatic fever. microRNA is involved in many physiol...

    Authors: Qiyu Lu, Yi Sun, Yuyin Duan, Bin Li, Jianming Xia, Songhua Yu and Guimin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:53
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  49. The wearable cardioverter-defibrillator (WCD) has emerged as a valuable tool to temporarily protect patients at risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD). The aim of this study was to determine the value of the WCD ...

    Authors: Susanne Röger, Stefanie L. Rosenkaimer, Anna Hohneck, Siegfried Lang, Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Boris Rudic, Erol Tülümen, Ksenija Stach, Jürgen Kuschyk, Ibrahim Akin and Martin Borggrefe
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:52
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  50. Atrial fibrillation (AF) usually originates from pulmonary veins (PVs) but can also be caused by pulmonary veins outside, such as the coronary sinus (CS), the superior vena cava (SVC), and the ligament of Mars...

    Authors: Shiwei Huang, Binglin Pan, He Zou and Wei Lin
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 18:51
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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