To address whether periodontal disease indexes are associated with urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) in conditions of high and low systemic inflammation as reflected by levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP)…
Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) play a significant role in monocyte activation, vascular inflammation, and atherogenesis. Angiotensin receptor blockers and calcium channel blockers are antihypertensive drugs…
Exercise is a classic trigger of ventricular arrhythmias in the setting of coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to examine the changes of novel indexes of…
Little is known about non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with an initial negative troponin finding. The aim of this study was to determine in post hoc analysis of…
Cardiogenic shock (CS) continues to be the most important factor affecting the mortality rate of patients with acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs). However, controversy regarding the optimal treatment of older patients…
Early and accurate triage of patients with possible ischemic chest pain remains challenging in the emergency department because current risk stratification techniques have significant cost and limited availability. The aim…
It was previously reported that event-free survival rates of symptomatic patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnosed by computed tomographic angiography decreased incrementally from normal coronary arteries to obstructive CAD….
In large clinical trials enrolling patients with acute coronary syndromes, a high loading dose of clopidogrel (600 mg) has been found to be more effective compared to a low loading…
The aim of this study was to evaluate whether African American, Hispanic, and Asian patients in California were more likely to undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) by cardiac surgeons…
