Notwithstanding credible advances in cardiovascular health progress contributed byscientific studies during the preceding few decades, disease (CVD) relics a largenumber of deaths developing as well developed countries. Out total 161 articles screened.87 were excluded based on preliminary scrutiny abstract and titles study wasrestricted to remaining 74 capture most relevant literature. The risk...

Atherosclerosis is a generalized disease causes thickening of arterial wall which leads to cardio-vascular disease. Automatic algorithm for measurement of Intima Media Thickness (IMT) in B-mode in ultrasound video frames is developed. Different types of despeckling filters are used to reduce granular noise and evaluated. As well as textural features are extracted from original and despeckled im...

Low-income communities will within the next decades undergo rapid changes. The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes, cardio-vascular disease and cancer, will comprise an increasing proportion of the total disease burden. The results of projections indicate that the already constrained health systems will face a double burden of disease, in which HIV/AIDS and other common...

The authors report a case of Large Anterior mediastinal mass in which Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) revealed large that was compressing the right atrium, SVC, henceforth, TEE helped guiding aspiration and surgical resection cystic mass. Therefore, through this report, emphasize the importance performing intraoperative real-time TEE mediastinal mass. This imaging technique helps ...

Purpose: The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of 8 weeks resistance training with and without vascular occlusion on physical fitness indexes, growth hormone, and Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) in male judokas.  Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 20 male judokas were divided into two groups: 1. Traditional resistance training along with judo training with...

BACKGROUND Patients with atherosclerotic cardio-cerebrovascular disease are at high risk of kidney dysfunction because of the overlap of several risk factors. The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence and characteristics and risk factors for kidney dysfunction in the cardio-cerebrovascular disease population. METHODS Renal functions of 1012 patients with the cardio-cerebrovascula...

For every patient with syphilitic disease of.the cardio-vascular system, there are twenty with heart disease of some other etiology. It is therefore a much less common cause of heart disease than acute rheumatism and arteriosclerosis, although the latter do not as a rule so quickly cause serious disability. Among the factors that determine whether or not a syphilitic shall develop later cardiac...

Study Question: To review the literature on the economic costs of cardio-vascular disease (CVD) in Canada and other developed countries (United States, Europe and Australia) published from 1998 to 2006, with a focus on Canada. Patient Group: Persons with cardio-vascular disease Key Results: A total of 1656 titles and abstracts were screened, of which 34 articles were reviewed including six Cana...