This study reports the midterm results and experience of a single center of transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) with Amplatzer membranous VSD occluders. Data of 301 patients…
Williams syndrome (WS) affects 1 in 8,000 live births and has a high risk of sudden death. No previous studies have evaluated corrected QT (QTc) prolongation in WS. Retrospective review…
Evidence from multiple large prospective studies suggests that a common polymorphism that encodes an arginine (Arg)–to–tryptophan substitution at position 719 in the KIF6 gene is associated with coronary heart disease…
Vitamin D recently has been proposed to play an important role in a broad range of organ functions, including cardiovascular (CV) health; however, the CV evidence-base is limited. We prospectively…
Elevated B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a marker of poor outcomes in heart failure, acute coronary syndromes, and sepsis. Elevated cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is associated with adverse outcomes in…
Patients with hypertension and left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy commonly have impaired diastolic filling. However, it remains unknown whether changes in LV diastolic filling variables are associated with cardiovascular morbidity and…
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) plus chronic heart failure (CHF) is a common but lethal combination and therapeutic options are limited. Metformin is perceived as being relatively contraindicated in this…
Red cell distribution width (RDW) has emerged as a powerful predictor of all-cause mortality in variety of cardiovascular settings. However, no data are available associating RDW with coronary heart disease…
We investigated whether there is an increased risk of coronary heart diseases (CHD) in those with common allergic symptoms using the NHANES III, which is a representative sample of the…
The clinical implications of microalbuminuria (MA) in nondiabetic persons with the metabolic syndrome (MS) are largely unknown. The present post hoc analysis of the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) included…
