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Dec 4th, 2022 - Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and exposure to a high-fat diet (HFD) independently increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hyperlipidemia. In our previous studies, IUGR increased blood pressure and promoted vascular remodelin...

Dec 4th, 2022 - Treatment of infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) remains challenging, and those affected remain with significant risks for mortality and morbidity throughout their lifetimes. The maternal-fetal environment (MFE) has been shown to a...

Dec 3rd, 2022 - Aldosterone-producing adenomas (APAs) are a major cause of primary aldosteronism, a condition of low-renin hypertension, in which aldosterone overproduction is usually driven by a somatic activating mutation in an ion pump or channel. TSPAN12 is d...

Dec 3rd, 2022 - BackgroundDiabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is highly prevalent among Jordanian patients, mostly are asymptomatic. Early recognition and appropriate management of neuropathy is important to improve symptoms, reduce sequelae, and improve quality...

Dec 3rd, 2022 - Multi-receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors with anti-angiogenic activity, particularly lenvatinib, have become the standard treatment for radioiodine-refractory metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer but are associated with a high incidence of to...

Nov 28th, 2022 - Pulmonary hypertension may be idiopathic or related to a large variety of diseases. Various imaging examinations may be helpful in diagnosing and determining the etiology of pulmonary hypertension. Imaging examinations discussed in this document i...

Nov 14th, 2022 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide.1,2 Prevalence of CVD is projected to rise even further as a result of, amongst others, physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol and li...

Sep 14th, 2022 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 210 000 children and adolescents younger than 20 years had diabetes as of 2018; of these, approximately 23 000 had type 2 diabetes. Youth with type 2 diabetes have an increased prevalen...

Sep 13th, 2022 - Importance The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 210 000 children and adolescents younger than 20 years had diabetes as of 2018; of these, approximately 23 000 had type 2 diabetes. Youth with type 2 diabetes have an increa...

Aug 24th, 2022 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and death in the US and is the cause of more than 1 of every 4 deaths. Coronary heart disease is the single leading cause of death and accounts for 43% of deaths attributable to CVD in...

Nov 14th, 2022 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide.1,2 Prevalence of CVD is projected to rise even further as a result of, amongst others, physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol and li...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Patients with diabetes and metabolic diseases such as obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemia have a myocardial environment that results in endothelial dysfunction, altered metabolism and little potential for regeneration by intrinsic or extrinsica...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Background: Current treatment options for patients with liver cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) and advanced liver cancers are limited and take no account of the known biological and genetic heterogeneity in these diseases. Median s...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Aortic dissection (AD) is the surging of blood through a tear in the aortic intima with separation of the intima and media and creation of a false lumen. The dissection may occur anywhere along the aorta and extend proximally or distally into othe...

Oct 14th, 2022 - 1.1. Non-Pharmacologic Interventions to Improve Blood Pressure Control: Despite the wide availability of multiple classes of antihypertensive agents, compelling data that blood pressure (BP) lowering reduces mortality and cardiovascular events, an...

Dec 2nd, 2022 - Because of high out-of-pocket costs of new-to-market neurologic drugs that are of similar benefit as older agents, only a small percentage of patients with neurologic disorders have access to these cutting-edge medications, new research shows. "Ou...

Dec 2nd, 2022 - CHICAGO ― A single chest x-ray could predict a patient's 10-year risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke, say researchers who presented the results of their deep-learning model at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 Annual Me...

Dec 2nd, 2022 - Women who develop transient hypertensive disorders during their pregnancy are at risk for developing subsequent cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly if this experienced at the same time as gestational diabetes. In a large population-based st...

Obesity, hypertension, and high cholesterol are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which accounts for about 20% of deaths in Washington State. For most states, self-reports from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System provide the prim...

Nov 29th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Recently, there have been a series of published studies in the realm of cardiovascular disease that have changed certain beliefs we've held in the past. I'm going to review a few of these. The first is ...