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  1. Hormone therapy, oral contraceptives, and tamoxifen increase the risk of thrombotic disease. These compounds also reduce plasma content of tissue factor pathway inhibitor-1 (TFPI), which is the physiological i...

    Authors: Anders EA Dahm, Nina Iversen, Baard Birkenes, Anne Hansen Ree and Per Morten Sandset
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:40
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  2. The coexistence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases. The U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study has shown that blood pressure control as well as blood glucose co...

    Authors: Ryuzo Kawamori, Hiroyuki Daida, Yasushi Tanaka, Katsumi Miyauchi, Akira Kitagawa, Dobun Hayashi, Junji Kishimoto, Shunya Ikeda, Yutaka Imai and Tsutomu Yamazaki
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:39
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  3. Hyperhomocysteinemia is known as an independent risk factor of atherosclerosis, but the probable role of hyperhomocysteinemia in premature Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is not well studied. The aim of this stu...

    Authors: Saeed Sadeghian, Faramarz Fallahi, Mojtaba Salarifar, Gholamreza Davoodi, Mehran Mahmoodian, Nader Fallah, Soodabeh Darvish and Abbasali Karimi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:38
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  5. Incomplete drug regimen compliance (DRC) and white-coat hypertension are two of several possible causes of uncontrolled hypertension. Therefore the aim of the present study was to compare DRC in hypertensives ...

    Authors: Thomas Mengden, Hans Vetter, Eric Tousset and Sakir Uen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:36
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  6. Impaired vascular function occurs early in atherogenesis. Brachial flow mediated dilatation (FMD) is a non-invasive measure of vascular function and may be an important marker of preclinical atherosclerosis. D...

    Authors: Tatjana Rundek, Rameet Hundle, Elizabeth Ratchford, Romel Ramas, Robert Sciacca, Marco R Di Tullio, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Yumiko Miyake, Mitchell SV Elkind, Ralph L Sacco and Shunichi Homma
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:35
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  7. Clinical governance requires health care professionals to improve standards of care and has resulted in comparison of clinical performance data. The Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (a UK cardiolog...

    Authors: Christopher P Gale, Anthony P Roberts, Phil D Batin and Alistair S Hall
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:34
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  8. The usual method of assessing the variability of a measure such as the ankle brachial index (ABI) as a function of different observer groups is to obtain repeated measurements. Because the number of possible o...

    Authors: Heinz G Endres, Christian Hucke, Tim Holland-Letz and Hans-Joachim Trampisch
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:33
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  9. Low dose irradiation (LDI) of uninjured segments is the consequence of the suggestion of many authors to extend the irradiation area in vascular brachytherapy to minimize the edge effect. Atherosclerosis is a ...

    Authors: Rainer Voisard, Jochen Höb, Regine Baur, Tina Herter, Andreas Hannekum and Vinzenz Hombach
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:32
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  10. A diverse range of factors influence clinicians' decisions regarding the allocation of patients to different treatments for coronary artery disease in routine cardiology clinics. These include demographic meas...

    Authors: Shashivadan P Hirani, Jonathan A Hyam, Shahzad Shaefi, John M Walker, Robin K Walesby and Stanton P Newman
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:31
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  11. Disease-management programmes including patient education have promoted improvement in outcome for patients with heart failure. However, there is sparse evidence concerning which component is essential for suc...

    Authors: Agneta Björck Linné and Hans Liedholm
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:30
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  12. Cardiac allograft rejection remains a significant clinical problem in the early phase after heart transplantation and requires frequent surveillance with endomyocardial biopsy. However, this is an invasive pro...

    Authors: Kristjan Karason, Margareta Jernås, Daniel A Hägg and Per-Arne Svensson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:29
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  13. Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a non-invasive technique that has been shown to be effective in reducing both angina and myocardial ischemia in patients not responding to medical therapy and witho...

    Authors: Thomas Pettersson, Susanne Bondesson, Diodor Cojocaru, Ola Ohlsson, Angelica Wackenfors and Lars Edvinsson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:28
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  15. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Australia and it is recommended that all persons with unstable angina (UA) or myocardial infarction (MI) participate in secondary pre...

    Authors: Julie Redfern, Elizabeth Ellis, Tom Briffa and SB Freedman
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:26
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  16. Organ transplantation is presently often the only available option to repair a damaged heart. As heart donors are scarce, engineering of cardiac grafts from autologous skeletal myoblasts is a promising novel t...

    Authors: Oleg Tolmachov, Yu-Ling Ma, Michael Themis, Pravina Patel, Hilmar Spohr, Kenneth T MacLeod, Nina D Ullrich, Yvonne Kienast, Charles Coutelle and Nicholas S Peters
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:25
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  17. Hypertension, notably untreated or uncontrolled, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) morbidity and mortality. In countries in transition, little is known about the epidemiology of hyperten...

    Authors: Abdishakur M Abdulle, Nico JD Nagelkerke, Samra Abouchacra, Javed Y Pathan, Abdu Adem and Enyioma N Obineche
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:24
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  18. Heart failure is a clinical syndrome that is associated with a significant number of interventional procedures and has received a large amount of scrutiny in the adult literature; however, the epidemiology in ...

    Authors: Gregory Webster, Jie Zhang and David Rosenthal
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:23
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  19. Indications for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation have expanded considerably in recent years, resulting in steadily growing numbers of ICD recipients worldwide. The aim of this study wa...

    Authors: Margret Leosdottir, Gudrun Reimarsdottir, Gizur Gottskalksson, Bjarni Torfason, Margret Vigfusdottir and David O Arnar
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:22
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  20. Randomized clinical trials showed the benefit of pharmacological and revascularization treatments in secondary prevention of myocardial infarction (MI), in selected population with highly controlled interventi...

    Authors: Alain Vanasse, Josiane Courteau and Théophile Niyonsenga
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:21
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  22. In type 2 diabetes mellitus both insulin resistance and hyperglycemia are considered responsible for autonomic dysfunction. The relation between the autonomic activity, impaired fasting glycemia and impaired g...

    Authors: Antonio Perciaccante, Alessandra Fiorentini, Alberto Paris, Pietro Serra and Luigi Tubani
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:19
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  23. Knowledge is an important pre-requisite for implementing both primary as well as secondary preventive strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD). There are no estimates of the level of knowledge of risk facto...

    Authors: Muhammad S Khan, Fahim H Jafary, Tazeen H Jafar, Azhar M Faruqui, Syed I Rasool, Juanita Hatcher and Nish Chaturvedi
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:18
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  24. There have been suggestions of an association between Chlamydia pneumoniae, chlamydial heat shock protein (Ch-hsp) 60 and human heat shock protein (h-hsp) 60 infection sero-status and development of secondary car...

    Authors: Mercy Guech-Ongey, Hermann Brenner, Dorothee Twardella and Dietrich Rothenbacher
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:17
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  26. Mid-ventricular obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (MVOHC) is a rare type of cardiomyopathy. The diagnosis is based on the hourglass appearance on the left ventriculogram and the presence of pressure grad...

    Authors: Istemihan Tengiz, Ertugrul Ercan, Emin Alioglu and Ugur O Turk
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:15
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  27. The significant reduction of angiographic restenosis rates in the ISAR-SWEET study (intracoronary stenting and antithrombotic regimen: is abciximab a superior way to eliminate elevated thrombotic risk in diabe...

    Authors: Rainer Voisard, Mustafa Alan, Lutz von Müller, Regine Baur and Vinzenz Hombach
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:14
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  28. TGF-β1 is an important angiogenic factor involved in the different aspects of angiogenesis and vessel maintenance. TGF-β signalling is mediated by the TβRII/ALK5 receptor complex activating the Smad2/Smad3 pat...

    Authors: Andreas Lux, Fiona Salway, Holly K Dressman, Gabriele Kröner-Lux, Mathias Hafner, Philip JR Day, Douglas A Marchuk and John Garland
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:13
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  29. Carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) is often considered as the preferred treatment for severe carotid occlusive disease in patients labelled as "high risk", including those aged 80 or more. We analyzed 30-d...

    Authors: Enzo Ballotta, Giuseppe Da Giau, Carmelo Militello, Bruno Barbon, Aldo De Rossi, Giorgio Meneghetti and Claudio Baracchini
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:12
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  30. Atrial electrical remodeling has been shown to influence the outcome the outcome following cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (AF) in experimental studies.

    Authors: Carl J Meurling, Anders Roijer, Johan EP Waktare, Fredrik Holmqvist, Carl J Lindholm, Max P Ingemansson, Jonas Carlson, Martin Stridh, Leif Sörnmo and S Bertil Olsson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:11
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  31. Most studies on risk factors for development of coronary heart disease (CHD) have been based on the clinical outcome of CHD. Our aim was to identify factors that could predict the development of ECG markers of...

    Authors: Christina Strom Moller, Liisa Byberg, Johan Sundstrom and Lars Lind
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:10
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  32. The purpose of the Finnish Cardiovascular Study (FINCAVAS) is to construct a risk profile – using genetic, haemodynamic and electrocardiographic (ECG) markers – of individuals at high risk of cardiovascular di...

    Authors: Tuomo Nieminen, Rami Lehtinen, Jari Viik, Terho Lehtimäki, Kari Niemelä, Kjell Nikus, Mari Niemi, Janne Kallio, Tiit Kööbi, Väinö Turjanmaa and Mika Kähönen
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:9
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  33. Gender influences the cardiac response to prolonged increases in workload, with differences at structural, functional, and molecular levels. However, it is unknown if post-ischemic function or metabolism of fe...

    Authors: Ramesh Saeedi, Richard B Wambolt, Hannah Parsons, Christine Antler, Hon S Leong, Angelica Keller, George A Dunaway, Kirill M Popov and Michael F Allard
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:8
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  34. A low ankle-brachial index (ABI) is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and death. Regression model parameter estimates may be biased due to measurement error when the ABI is incl...

    Authors: Beth D Weatherley, Lloyd E Chambless, Gerardo Heiss, Diane J Catellier and Curtis R Ellison
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:7
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  35. Hyperlipidemia and hypertension are well-established risk factors for recurrent cardiovascular events among patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). Despite national recommendations, concordance with guidel...

    Authors: P Michael Ho, Allan V Prochazka, David J Magid, Anne E Sales, Gary K Grunwald, Karl E Hammermeister and John S Rumsfeld
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:6
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  36. I have found an error in the Discussion section of my recent article [1]. While citing a prior work by Okura et al. [2], I incorrectly wrote that their weight-loss participants had "only a 2 percent reduction in ...

    Authors: Henry S Kahn
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:5
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:26

  37. Hypertension is a global problem and it is prevalent in Nigeria. Left ventricular hypertrophy is a major complication of hypertension with risk of sudden death and arrhythmias among others. Abnormal left ventr...

    Authors: Akinyemi Aje, Adewole A Adebiyi, Olulola O Oladapo, Adekola Dada, Okechukwu S Ogah, Dike B Ojji and Ayodele O Falase
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:4
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  38. Cigarette smoking is a strong risk factor for vascular disease and known to cause dysfunction of the endothelium. However, the molecular mechanisms involved are still not fully understood.

    Authors: Jin-Yan Zhang, Yong-Xiao Cao, Cang-Bao Xu and Lars Edvinsson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:3
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  39. Skeletal muscle consists of type-I (slow-twitch) and type-II (fast-twitch) fibers, with proportions highly variable between individuals and mostly determined by genetic factors. Cross-sectional studies have as...

    Authors: Jouko Karjalainen, Heikki Tikkanen, Miika Hernelahti and Urho M Kujala
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:2
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  40. The occurrence of variations in the spectrum of cardiovascular disease between different regions of the world and ethnic groups have been the subject of great interest. This study report the 24-h variation of ...

    Authors: Carlos E D'Negri, Leonardo Nicola-Siri, Daniel E Vigo, Luis A Girotti and Daniel P Cardinali
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:1
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  41. Since its first description, Mönckeberg's sclerosis has only been related to arterial media calcification, being listed among the primary diseases of the vessels.

    Authors: Carlos Eduardo Barra Couri, Geruza Alves da Silva, José Antônio Baddini Martinez, Francisco de Assis Pereira and Francisco José Albuquerque de Paula
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:34
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  42. The increasing burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the ageing population of industrialized nations requires an intensive search for means of reducing this epidemic. In order to improve prevention, detec...

    Authors: Karin H Greiser, Alexander Kluttig, Barbara Schumann, Jan A Kors, Cees A Swenne, Oliver Kuss, Karl Werdan and Johannes Haerting
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:33
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  45. Microsomal transfer protein inhibitors (MTPi) have the potential to be used as a drug to lower plasma lipids, mainly plasma triglycerides (TG). However, studies with animal models have indicated that MTPi trea...

    Authors: Dimple Aggarwal, Kristy L West, Tosca L Zern, Sudeep Shrestha, Marcela Vergara-Jimenez and Maria Luz Fernandez
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:30
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  46. Accurate measurement of the QT interval is very important from a clinical and pharmaceutical drug safety screening perspective. Expert manual measurement is both imprecise and imperfectly reproducible, yet it ...

    Authors: Anthony Charles Hunt
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:29
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  48. Experimental studies support an important role for endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) in the regulation of angiogenesis. In humans, a common polymorphism exists in the eNOS gene that results in the conve...

    Authors: Nicolas Lamblin, François J Cuilleret, Nicole Helbecque, Jean Dallongeville, Jean-Marc Lablanche, Philippe Amouyel, Christophe Bauters and Eric Van Belle
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:27
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  49. Body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) may not be the best marker for estimating the risk of obesity-related disease. Consistent with physiologic observations, an alternative index uses waist circumference (WC) and fasting...

    Authors: Henry S Kahn
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:26
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2006 6:5

  50. The protective role of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in the cardiovascular system is related to its role in the reverse transport of cholesterol from the arterial wall to the liver for subsequent excretion vi...

    Authors: Per-Arne Svensson, Mikael CO Englund, Magnus SC Snäckestrand, Daniel A Hägg, Bertil G Ohlsson, Veronika Stemme, Lillemor Mattsson-Hulten, Dag S Thelle, Björn Fagerberg, Olov Wiklund, Lena MS Carlsson and Björn Carlsson
    Citation: BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:25
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