OBJECTIVES Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. The goal of this study is to determine the prognostic value of semiquantitative parameters of electrocardiogram-gated single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in a large Middle Eastern (Iranian) population. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a prospective study includ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine whether in-hospital cardiac arrests occurring in regular wards are preceded by some event(s), and the diagnostic and therapeutic measures adopted. METHODS From 1 May 1999 to 31 December 2001, events occurring in the 6 h preceding cardiac arrest were reviewed by checking the medical and nurse records and interviewing the attending staff. Exclusion criteria were (a...

There is abundant evidence that depression, anxiety, and anger increase the risk for cardiac events in patients with coronary heart disease. Denollet and Brutsaert are to be commended for contributing a generally well-conducted study of psychological predictors of cardiac end points to this rapidly growing literature. They have found that the combination of “negative affectivity” and social inh...

Background: The occurrence of adverse cardiac events always disturbs the successful recovery, personal and economic life of patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. This study aimed to gain further insight into potential predicators for adverse cardiac events after major abdominal surgery. Methods: 246 patients who scheduled to undergo selective major abdominal surgery were eligible to ente...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare thallium reinjection with standard stress/delay redistribution for the prediction of cardiac events. BACKGROUND Although thallium reinjection enhances the detection of viable myocardium, its contribution to prognosis over stress/delay redistribution in a general referral population has not been clearly evaluated. METHODS This retrospective...

Objective. To assess prevalence of depression and its relationship with physical activity among individuals who haveexperienced a cardiac event.
 Methods. This descriptive study involved 196 patients receiving treatment at selected hospitals Punjab (India). Subjects were chosen using purposive sampling technique. After getting informed written consents from the participants data was collec...

Epidemiological studies have indicated that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be associated with an increased incidence of ischaemic cardiac events. The current authors performed a post hoc analysis of the European Respiratory Society's study on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (EUROSCOP); a 3-yr, placebo-controlled study of an inhaled corticosteroid budesonide 800 microg.da...