BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary heart failure (HF) clinics are efficacious in clinical trials. Our objectives were to compare real-world outcomes of patients with HF treated in HF clinics versus usual therapy and identify HF clinic features associated with improved outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS The service components at all HF clinics in Ontario, Canada, were quantified using a validated instrum...

A murine hybridoma cell line that produces a monoclonal antibody to human Hageman factor (HF, factor XII) is described. The antibody (P 5-2-1) consists of mouse IgG2b heavy chains and lambda light chains, selectively neutralizes HF procoagulant activity, and prevents the proteolytic cleavage of HF during contact activation in plasma. When HF is exposed to P 5-2-1 before the absorption of HF to ...

Emerging evidence has suggested a potential impact of gut microbiota on the pathophysiology of heart failure (HF). However, it is still unknown whether HF is associated with dysbiosis in gut microbiota. We investigated the composition of gut microbiota in patients with HF to elucidate whether gut microbial dysbiosis is associated with HF. We performed 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing of fecal ...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus and heart failure (HF) commonly coexist, with diabetes mellitus occurring in ≈25% of patients with chronic HF and ~40% in those hospitalized with acute HF. Importantly, the presence of diabetes mellitus in HF is associated with reduced survival and increased rates of hospitalization compared with HF patients without diabetes mellitus. Despite the common and dangerous co...

BACKGROUND It is still unclear whether high flexion (HF) activities correlated with the early loosening of the femoral component and whether HF activities are possible. We investigated what is the capability for performing various HF activities, and whether high flexion activities increase the chance of aseptic loosening after HF-TKA. METHODS We retrospectively analysed 260 patients who under...

We have previously described two unrelated individuals with homozygous Hageman trait (Factor XII deficiency) whose plasmas contained nonfunctional material immunologically indistinguishable from normal Hageman factor (HF). Abnormal HF from the plasma of one these subjects has now been purified to homogeneity, as judged by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, alkaline disc ...

Substantial studies demonstrated that maternal nutrition can significantly determine the susceptibility to developing some metabolic diseases in offspring. However, investigations into the later-life effects of these diets on gut microbiota in the offspring are limited. Our objective was to explore the effects of maternal and post-weaning diet interaction on offspring's gut microbiota and gluco...

RESULTS—Both the HF/HS and HF groups similarly developed obesity. EPA treatment strongly suppresses body weight gain and obesity-related hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia in HF/ HS-fed mice (HF/HS EPA group), where hepatic triglyceride content and lipogenic enzymes are increased. There is no appreciable effect of EPA on body weight in HF-fed mice (HF EPA group) without enhanced expression of h...

The effect of β2-adrenergic receptor (AR) overexpression on interleukin (IL)-10 content secreted by cardiomyocytes of heart failure (HF) rats was investigated. A rat model of chronic HF was established by partially banding abdominal aorta and the cardiomyocytes were isolated with collagenase II. The cardiomyocytes were then transfected with adenovirus type 5-ADRβ2-enhanced green fluorescent pro...

In the Digitalis Investigation Group trial, digoxin-associated decrease in the combined end point of heart failure (HF) hospitalization or HF mortality was significant in systolic but not in diastolic HF. To assess whether this apparent disparity could be explained by differences in baseline characteristics and sample size, we used propensity score matching to assemble a cohort of 916 pairs of ...