Degenerative mitral valve disease is the leading cause of mitral regurgitation in North America. Surgical intervention has hinged on the symptoms and ventricular changes that develop as compensatory ventricular remodeling…
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an excess burden of cardiovascular (CV) disease (CVD). CV risk scores for the general population may not accurately predict CV risk for patients with…
To assess the effect of weight loss on ventricular repolarization in morbidly obese patients, 39 normotensive subjects whose baseline body mass indexes were ≥40 kg/m 2 before weight loss from…
The Seattle Heart Failure Model (SHFM) is a validated multivariate risk prediction model for mortality in patients with heart failure, using widely available clinical variables. The aim of this study…
Bleeding is the major concern for patients receiving oral anticoagulation therapy (OAT), especially those with histories of gastrointestinal ulcer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and…
The aim of this study was to examine long-term compliance with nonpharmacologic treatment of patients with heart failure (HF) and its associated variables. Data from 648 hospitalized patients with HF…
The role of systolic blood pressure (SBP) as an independent risk factor for sudden cardiac death (SCD) is not well defined in a general population. Thus, we assessed the association…
Angioedema is a rare, potentially life-threatening adverse event of renin–angiotensin system inhibitors. The objective of the present study was to determine the risk of angioedema from randomized clinical trials. A…
Alcohol and vagal activity may be important triggers for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF), but it remains unknown if these associations occur more often than would be expected by chance alone…
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is more common in those with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) than in unaffected subjects and recurs more frequently in the presence of severe OSA after electrical cardioversion…
