Heart Rate in Hypertension: Review and Expert Opinion by Jamshed Dalal, Arup Dasbiswas, Immaneni Sathyamurthy, Srinivasa Rao Maddury, Prafulla Kerkar, Sandeep Bansal, Joy Thomas, Sankar Chandra Mandal, Soura Mookerjee, Sivakadaksham Natarajan, Viveka Kumar, Nishith Chandra, Aziz Khan, R. Vijayakumar, J. P. S. Sawhney

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Short-acting beta agonist, antibiotics, oral corticosteroid and association with mortality and cardiopulmonary events in patients with COPD: a retrospective cohort study in Alberta... by Mohit Bhutani, Irvin Mayers, Arsh Randhawa, Manisha Talukdar, Suzanne McMullen, Phongsack Manivong, Aaron Gelfand

“…Associations were modelled between mortality and SABA, antibiotic and OCS history, and between major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) death and SABA history.Results Among 188 969 patients, dose–response effects were observed. …”
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Terlipressin at esophageal varicose bleeding at liver cirrhosis with portal hypertension syndrome by B. N. Kotiv, I. I. Dzidzava, D. P. Kashkin, A. V. Smorodsky, A. V. Slobodyanik, S. A. Soldatov, M. V. Koldin

“…Though the level of mean blood pressure and heart rate decreased, only reduction of cardiac output in the main group significantly differed from reference values.Conclusion. …”
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Sistem Pendeteksi Central Sleep Apnea Menggunakan Metode Neural Network dengan Fitur RR Interval dan Durasi QRS by Dittha Ratanasari, Edita Rosana Widasari, Rizal Maulana

“…It has been evaluated to help in the diagnosing process and uses cardiac ECG data since the heart rhythms alter during periods of abrupt stoppage during sleep. …”
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Heart–brain microvascular MRI study: protocol for a multicentre, observational, cohort study in the UK assessing associations between small vessel disease of the heart and brain by Colin Berry, Alex McConnachie, Peter Kellman, Terry Quinn, Paul Donnelly, Vanessa Orchard, Robert A Sykes, Gemma McKinley, Conor Patrick Bradley, Jodi Watt, Natasha Fullerton

“…The participants will then undergo brain MRI (to detect CSVD) immediately followed by a quantitative stress perfusion cardiac MRI (to detect coronary microvascular dysfunction). …”
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Learning Effectiveness Assessment between Primary School Students and Adults in Basic Life Support Education by Ming-Fang Wang, Yi-Kan Wu, Cheng-Yu Chien, Li-Heng Tsai, Chen-Bin Chen, Chen-June Seak, Chi-Chun Lin, Chien-Hsiung Huang, Chung-Hsien Chaou, Hsiao-Jung Tseng, Chip-Jin Ng

“…Background. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a big issue of critical care. …”
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Frailty assessment tools for use by surgeons when evaluating older adults prior to surgery: a scoping review protocol by Duminda N Wijeysundera, Andrea C Tricco, Martine T E Puts, Shabbir M H Alibhai, Teruko Kishibe, Tyler R Chesney, Julian F Daza, Camilla Wong, Karim Shiraz Ladha, Samuel Dubé

“…We will include all studies evaluating a frailty assessment tool preoperatively in patients 65 years or older undergoing intracavitary, non-cardiac surgery. We will exclude tools not assessed in clinical practice, or using laboratory or radiologic values alone. …”
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Effect of intraoperative noise isolation on postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing gynecological laparoscopic surgery: protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Chong Fu, Fan Xia, Zihan Yan, Han-bing Xu, Wei-ming Zhao, Yi-shan Lei, Chang Xu, Wen-wen Huo, Duo-duo Tao, Juan Wang, Xi-sheng Shan, Ke Peng, Hong Liu, Fu-hai Ji, Hua-yue Liu

“…Secondary outcomes include PONV severity at 24 and 48 h, antiemetic use, pain scores, need for rescue analgesia, Quality of Recovery-15 (QoR-15) scores, Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ) scores, hemodynamic interventions, extubation time, length of stay in PACU and hospital, adverse events (hypertension, hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia, desaturation after extubation, postoperative shivering, emergence agitation, allergic reactions, severe arrhythmias arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, hypothermia), patient satisfaction, and postoperative complications based on the Postoperative Morbidity Survey (POMS). …”
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Comparison of the Fixation Effects of Six Composite Fixatives on Retinal Tissue of Golden Hamsters by WU Haifeng, ZHOU Xiaojiang, LI Chenjiang, LI Huaiyin, GAO Ming

“…After each animal was anesthetized by intraperitoneal injection of sodium pentobarbital, cardiac perfusion was performed using 4% paraformaldehyde, Bouin's, Carnoy, Davidson's, Zenker, and Helly fixatives, respectively. …”
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Influence of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation on atrial and ventricular functional mitral regurgitation by Masaharu Masuda, Kimiko Sekiya, Mitsutoshi Asai, Osamu Iida, Shin Okamoto, Takayuki Ishihara, Kiyonori Nanto, Takashi Kanda, Takuya Tsujimura, Yasuhiro Matsuda, Yosuke Hata, Hiroyuki Uematsu, Taku Toyoshima, Naoko Higashino, Toshiaki Mano

“…Abstract Aims The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of catheter ablation on cardiac structural reverse remodelling and atrial (AFMR) and ventricular (VFMR) functional mitral regurgitation (MR), and the long‐term prognosis of patients with AFMR and VFMR. …”
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Functional and structural connectivity of the subregions of the amygdala in ADHD children with or without ODD by Zhao-Min Wu, Peng Wang, Xue-Chun Liu, Qing-Chao Zhou, Xiao-Lan Cao, Li Sun, Lu Liu, Qing-Jiu Cao, Li Yang, Yu-Feng Wang, Ying Qian, Bin-Rang Yang

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Changes in hemodynamic parameters with different anaesthesia induction agents in elderly patients with coronary heart disease by A.R. Vitovskyi, O.A. Loskutov

“…At the third stage, a statistically significant difference between the groups was determined in three indicators: MAP (86.74 ± 8.82 %, 92.34 ± 7.26 %; p < 0.05), stroke volume index (SVI) (99.91 ± 2.94 %, 109.63 ± 8.16 %, p < 0.05), cardiac index (CI) (96.63 ± 11.77 %, 110.38 ± 12.37 %, p < 0.05). …”
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The correlation between serum MHR and NLR and the severity of coronary lesions in NSTE-ACS patients of different genders by Yanping Yang, Xiaobing Lv, Kai Tan, Kai Li, Shaohua Li, Xia Meng, Yunyun Chen, Fuqing Wang, Hui Xin

“…NSTE-ACS patients were divided into low-risk (0–23) and high-risk (≥ 23) groups based on the Synergy between PCI with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) score. Then, Spearman correlation and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to study the associated factors of high-risk SYNTAX score in male and female NSTE-ACS patients, respectively. …”
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Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Components Associate with Infarct Size, Ventricular Function, and Clinical Outcome in STEMI by Ragnhild Helseth, Christian Shetelig, Geir Øystein Andersen, Miriam Sjåstad Langseth, Shanmuganathan Limalanathan, Trine B. Opstad, Harald Arnesen, Pavel Hoffmann, Jan Eritsland, Ingebjørg Seljeflot

“…Double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (dsDNA) and myeloperoxidase-DNA (MPO-DNA) were measured in serum by a nucleic acid stain and ELISA. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging assessed microvascular obstruction (MVO), area at risk, infarct size, myocardial salvage index, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and change in indexed left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDVi). …”
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Interrelation between hypoxic liver injury and Killip classification in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients by Seong Huan Choi, Ji-Hun Jang, Dae-Young Kim, Young Ju Suh, Yong-Soo Baek, Sung-Hee Shin, Seong-Ill Woo, Dae-Hyeok Kim, Jeonggeun Moon, Jon Suh, WoongChol Kang, Sang-Don Park, Sung Woo Kwon

“…Both initial and peak AST levels increased in accordance with Killip classification along with cardiac biomarkers. In-hospital mortality was directly related to Killip classification (2.3%, 7.3%, 16.3%, 29.2%) with statistical significance. …”
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Clinical Implications of Bifurcation Angles in Left Main Bifurcation Intervention Using a Two-Stent Technique by You-Jeong Ki, Ji Hyun Jung, Jung-Kyu Han, Sukkeun Hong, Jang Hyun Cho, Hyeon-Cheol Gwon, Sung Yun Lee, Jay Young Rhew, Jei Keon Chae, In-Ho Chae, Han-Mo Yang, Kyung Woo Park, Hyun-Jae Kang, Bon-Kwon Koo, Hyo-Soo Kim

“…The primary outcome was target lesion failure (TLF), a composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction, and target lesion revascularization (TLR). …”
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Association of Cancer and the Risk of Developing Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ming Yuan, Zhiwei Zhang, Gary Tse, Xiaojin Feng, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Konstantinos P. Letsas, Bryan P. Yan, William K. K. Wu, Huilai Zhang, Guangping Li, Tong Liu, Yunlong Xia

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In vivo and in silico study of europinidin against streptozotocin-isoproterenol-induced myocardial damage via alteration of hs-CRP/CPK-MB/Caspase-3/Bcl-2 pathways by Khalid Saad Alharbi, Muhammad Afzal, Fahad A. Al-Abbasi, Ehssan Moglad, Salwa D. Al-Qahtani, Naif A. R. Almalki, Faisal Imam, Nadeem Sayyed, Imran Kazmi

“…Biochemicals parameters including anti-diabetic (Glucose, HbA1c, serum insulin), cardiac markers (hs-CRP, CPK-MB), dyslipidaemia (lipid analysis), anti-inflammatory (IL6, TNF-α and IL-β), oxidative stress (MDA) and antioxidant (SOD, CAT and GSH), kidney function (creatinine), liver function (AST) and pancreatic function (lipase) along with apoptosis markers (Bcl-2, caspase-3) were evaluated. …”
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Clinical burden of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in France by Philippe Charron, Carla Zema, François-Emery Cotté, Eléonore Herquelot, Taryn Krause, Florent Daydé, Jean-Noël Trochu

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Racial differences in takotsubo cardiomyopathy outcomes in a large nationwide sample by Raja Zaghlol, Amit K. Dey, Sameer Desale, Ana Barac

“…In unadjusted analysis, AA had more cardiac arrests [304 (3.8%) vs. 2569 (2.9%), P = 0.04], invasive mechanical ventilation [1671 (20.8%) vs. 15 897 (17.7%), P = 0.002], tracheostomies [242 (3%) vs. 1600 (1.8%), P = 0.001], acute kidney injuries [1765 (22%) vs. 14 608 (16.3%), P < 0.0001], and longer hospital stays [4.5 (3.2–4.8) vs. 3.8 (3.7–3.9) days, P < 0.0001] compared with Caucasians. …”
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