Quality of life is a major goal in the context of preventive and therapeutic cardiology. It is important, both as an outcome measure in clinical trials of congestive heart failure (CHF) and as a consideration in individual physicians' therapeutic decisions. In this article, quality of life concepts are reviewed, methods of measurement are explored and clinically significant changes on prognosis...

methods in this article we checked the derived data from 20 relevant studies published during the last 20 years in international scientific literature at other country except iran and 10 studies from iran. the variables dose-area product (dap), fluoroscopy time, number of sequences and frames per sequence were collected for each ca, ptca, rfa and diagnostic electrophysiology and then the obtain...

Stephen Kopecky, MD, FACC, FACP; Seth Baum, MD, FACC, FACPM, FAHA, FNLA; JoAnne M. Foody, MD, FACC, FAHA; Michael Koren, MD, FACC; James McKenney, PharmD, FNLA; Laurence Sperling, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP; Nathan D. Wong, PhD, MPH, FACC, FAHA; Statin Intolerance Roundtable Participants Division of Cardiovascular Diseases (Kopecky), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Women’s Preventive Cardiology Ce...

539 In this issue of Circulation, Samia Mora, Julie Buring, and Paul Ridker publish an elegant and clinically-relevant analysis examining discordance of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) with related laboratory measures and the risk implications. The article should attract attention from a diverse set of contingents, such as those based in preventive cardiology, clinical lipidology, a...

Routine medical examinations have been carried out in children for many years, but more recently paediatricians have broadened their outlook to consider not only the health of the child until the age of 14 or 16 years but also his future health as an adult. Screening for risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) in children raises problems of normal values by sex and age, especially for ser...

From the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care (EAM, DEG), University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Municipal Health Service Utrecht (EAM), Utrecht, The Netherlands; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study (CSF, SJH, RSV, DL), Framingham, Massachusetts; Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, the Brigham and Women’s Hos...

American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 1942-325X. Online ISSN: 2012 Copyright © Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.112.962746 2012;5;368-376; Circ Cardiovasc Genet Bustamante, Euan A. Ashley and John P.A. Ioannidis Benjamin A. Goldstein, Veronica Yank, Micha...

In majority of the cases familial dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. In rare instances, this condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. In other rare cases, DCM can be inherited in an Xlinked pattern. Establishing a genetic diagnosis confirms or modifies the clinical diagnosis and enables disease specific estimates on prognostics and treatm...