Diagnosis of a cardiac genetic disorder can be a lifechanging event. Symptomatic status, uncertainty regarding disease progression, risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), recommended lifestyle changes (ie, activity restrictions or career change), and genetic transmission to offspring all contribute to the potential psychological burden of disease. Most of the relevant literature on this topic focu...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of alcohol septal ablation (ASA) on ventricular arrhythmias among patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), as measured by appropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) discharges. BACKGROUND Alcohol septal ablation is an effective therapy for patients with symptomatic HCM. However, concern has been ...

We focus on aspects of health changes, the importance of cohort effects, age related health changes and the effect of labour market status and work history on health. We moreover assess the relative importance of gradual changes and sudden shocks in health changes and the role of work status on the likelihood of experiencing a health shock. A fixed effect panel data model is estimated on two wa...

The price of a barrel of crude oil doubled within a few months last year. Although prices have been easing lately, for those who paid more than $3 for a gallon of gas, the memory is not likely to fade quickly. But worries about higher gas prices don’t end at the pump. Oil price shocks—sudden and sharp increases in the price of oil and its derivatives like gasoline—are associated in the popular ...

We provide a microfounded framework for the welfare analysis of macroprudential policy within model rational bubbles. For this, we posit an overlapping generation where productivity and credit supply are subject to random shocks. find that when real interest rates lower than rate growth, financed bubbles may be improving because their role as buffer in channeling excessive inefficient investmen...

in this paper, asymmetric effects of exchange rate fluctuation (according to positive and negative shocks) on real output were investigated. in the meantime, the study of behaviour of real output growth in iran’s economy over the period 1338-1386 was done. in specification of the output growth equation, in spite of considering positive and negative shocks of exchange rate, the effects of other ...

Solar thermal energy can be captured on absorbent surfaces, but coatings tend to deteriorate, due changes in hue, shocks, or detachment of all layers. There is a great challenge reducing the deterioration because environmental factors such as corrosion, impact, and dust control, among others. The interact with incident solar radiation transforming it heat energy, selectivity allows low emissivi...

The " Sudden Stop " phenomenon of the recurrent emerging markets crises of the last ten years is one of the key questions facing International Macroeconomics. Sudden Stops are defined by unusually large recessions marked by: sharp, abrupt current account reversals, large contractions in output and absorption, and collapses in goods and asset prices. In Mexico's 1995 Sudden Stop, for example, th...