Diabetes mellitus is a well-recognized risk-factor for coronary artery disease. It is known that diabetic patients have a two-to fourfold increased risk of mortality or morbidity for cardiovascular diseases compared with the general population. Further, many diabetic patients with coronary heart disease have severe diseased coronary arteries: multi-vessel disease and/or severe stenosed vessel(s...

Corresponding author: Mariusz Kruk MD, Coronary Artery and Structural Heart Diseases Department, Institute of Cardiology, 42 Alpejska St, 04-628 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 601 145 011, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 29.02.2016, accepted: 29.02.2016. Diagnostic one-stop-shop in suspected coronary artery disease gets closer. Coronary computed tomography angiography based fractional f...

Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death around the world. Early and accurate detection this vital to reducing complications preventing failure attacks. This project creates an early-level diagnosis method that analyzes sound audio detect characterize anomalies including murmurs, arrhythmias, extra sounds. The dataset was obtained from Peter Bently’s Classifying Heart Sounds Database....

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) occurs when decreases or stops blood flow to the heart muscles. This is resulting from gradual narrowing of coronary arteries and atherosclerosis. Tobacco use, abnormal lipid profile, obesity, high pressure, diabetes, physical inactivity, emotional distress, alcohol consumption reduction in fruit vegetables are predominant risks cardiovascular diseases such as CHD. ...

the coronary slow flow phenomenon (csfp) is characterized by a delayed coronary blood flow in the absence of an obstructive coronary artery disease. although the relation between the csfp and myocardial ischemia has been reported previously, there is no knowledge about the relationship between the csfp and the conduction system disorder. in this case report, we describe a patient with the csfp ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association of chronic degenerative diseases with locomotor activity limitation and social participation among older British women. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of 4,286 women aged 60-79 years from 23 towns in England, Scotland and Wales. RESULTS The prevalence of locomotor activity limitation was 37.2% and 33.5% of women had difficulty with some aspect of social...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: epidemic levels of obesity and overweight in today's world are leading to a higher number of mortality and morbidity, especially due to cardiovascular diseases (cvds). body fat distribution contributes a great amount to atherosclerosis formation and therefore increased cvd incidence. the present study used the ...

introduction: obesity is common in patients with cardiovascular disease (cvd) and the vast majority of patients entering into cardiac rehabilitation program (crp) are obese. regarding the gender differences, the risk of developing coronary heart disease (chd) is recognized to be different between obese men and women. so, the purpose of this study was to explore the effect of crp in functional c...

background: passive or environmental smoking is one of the important health problems, to which many adults and children are exposed in involuntary status. methods: in this hospital based case-control study, household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of passive smokers was conducted in hamadan, western iran. the purpose was to find the relationship between environmental smoking and incid...