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  1. Risk stratification of the early repolarization pattern (ERP) is needed to identify malignant early repolarization. J-point elevation with a horizontal ST segment was recently suggested as a malignant feature ...

    Authors: Sung Hea Kim, Do Young Kim, Hyun-Joong Kim, Sang Man Jung, Seong Woo Han, Soon Yong Suh and Kyu-Hyung Ryu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:122
  2. Although the heritability of atrial fibrillation (AF) has been determined, the relevance of family history of AF for the likelihood of recurrent hospitalization for AF is unknown. The aim of this nationwide st...

    Authors: Bengt Zöller, Henrik Ohlsson, Jan Sundquist and Kristina Sundquist
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:121
  3. Healthy lifestyles are an important facet of cardiovascular risk management. Unfortunately many individuals fail to engage with lifestyle change programmes. There are many factors that patients report as influ...

    Authors: Jenni Murray, Cheryl Leanne Craigs, Kate Mary Hill, Stephanie Honey and Allan House
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:120
  4. Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), which reflects the stiffness of both central and peripheral muscular arteries, has been frequently used as a simple index for assessing arterial stiffness. The aim o...

    Authors: Jin-Wen Wang, Zi-Qiang Zhou and Da-Yi Hu
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:119
  5. Low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs) are safe and effective anticoagulant options for cardiovascular patients when applied as body weight-adjusted doses. However, there are some barriers that make it difficul...

    Authors: Huimin Xu, Hongwen Cai, Zhongshu Qian, Geng Xu, Xiaofeng Yan and Haibin Dai
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:118
  6. The association between hyperuricemia, hypertension, and diabetes has been proved to have strong association with the risk for cardiovascular diseases, but it is not clear whether hyperuricemia is related to t...

    Authors: Jasna Vučak, Milica Katić, Ivan Bielen, Davorka Vrdoljak, Dragica Ivezić Lalić, Ksenija Kranjčević and Biserka Bergman Marković
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:117
  7. Coronary artery calcifications (CAC) are markers of coronary atherosclerosis, but do not correlate well with stenosis severity. This study intended to evaluate clinical situations where a combined approach of ...

    Authors: Franz von Ziegler, Michaela Brendel, Christopher Uebleis, Susanne Helbig, Martin Greif, Janine Ruemmler, Christoph Becker, Marcus Hacker, Gerhard Steinbeck and Alexander Becker
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:116
  8. In a previous in vitro study, we confirmed that small-caliber nanofibrous polyurethane (PU) vascular grafts have favorable mechanical properties and biocompatibility. In the present study, we examined the in vivo

    Authors: Zuo-jun Hu, Zi-lun Li, Ling-yu Hu, Wei He, Rui-ming Liu, Yuan-sen Qin and Shen-ming Wang
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:115
  9. During the past 30 years, Portugal has been described as one of the countries with highest median blood pressure levels in Europe, but the incidence of hypertension is unknown. The aim of this study was to est...

    Authors: Marta Pereira, Nuno Lunet, Cristiana Paulo, Milton Severo, Ana Azevedo and Henrique Barros
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:114
  10. Hypertension is a growing public health problem in many developing countries including Ethiopia. However, its prevention and control has not yet received due attention. This study aimed to determine the preval...

    Authors: Akilew Awoke, Tadesse Awoke, Shitaye Alemu and Berihun Megabiaw
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:113
  11. Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) has been used for the ablation of premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) or ventricular tachycardia (VT). To date, the mapping and catheter ablation of the arrhythmia...

    Authors: Bei Ge, Kang-Ting Ji, Hai-Ge Ye, Jia Li, Yue-Chun Li, Ri-Peng Yin and Jia-Feng Lin
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:112
  12. In Australia, rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is almost exclusively restricted to Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people with children being at highest risk. International criteria for echocardi...

    Authors: Marc Gerard Wootton Rémond, David Atkinson, Andrew White, Yvonne Hodder, Alex DH Brown, Jonathan R Carapetis and Graeme Paul Maguire
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:111
  13. New-onset atrial fibrillation in patients hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction often leads to hemodynamic deterioration and has serious adverse prognostic implications; mortality is particularly hig...

    Authors: Itsuro Morishima, Takahito Sone, Hideyuki Tsuboi and Hiroaki Mukawa
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:110
  14. With hypertension, the cardiovascular system changes to adapt to the varying neuro-humoral and hemodynamic changes and this may lead to the development of different left ventricular geometric patterns, each ca...

    Authors: Lairumbe Korduni Silangei, Venance Philis Maro, Helmut Diefenthal, Gibson Kapanda, Matthew Dewhurst, Hery Mwandolela and Ben Hamel
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2012 12:109
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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

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