BACKGROUND Although Hippocrates has been traditionally recognized worldwide as the father of medicine, the fact that he was seminal in the development of cardiology is much less well appreciated. Therefore his role in forming the foundation of scientific practice of cardiology needs to be defined. METHODS This article was based on a personal 3-day visit in 1999 to the island of Kos, the birth...

Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine and Harry S. Truman VA Medical Center, Columbia, Missouri Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chronic Disease Researc...

1 Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Pfizer Canada Inc., Kirkland, QC, Canada, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City,...

Hypertension in women of childbearing age is a challenging medical problem with increasing prevalence. Essential hypertension remains the most common diagnosis in young women. Reproductive goals and possible teratogenic effects must be considered when initiating therapy. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are frequent causes of maternal/fetal morbidity and mortality, the most common being pree...

Boston University and National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA; Dept of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Section of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Section of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA; Center for Human Genetic Research,...

Framingham Heart Study cardiovascular disease prospective population epidemiologic research has played an important role in the evolution of modern cohort study design and the advancement of preventive cardiology. To date no single essential factor has been identified; multiple interrelated factors are promoting increased risk for development of CHD. Elevated blood pressure has emerged as a pro...

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...

1 Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, Bern 3010, Switzerland. 2 Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. 3 Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. 4 Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 5 Deutsches Herzzentrum, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany. 6 DZHK (German...

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...

Editor–in–Chief, The Journal of Clinical Lipidology, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Emory University School of Medicine, 1670 Clairmont Road, Atlanta, GA 30033, USA (Dr. Brown); Director of Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis, Medstar Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA (Dr. Brewer); Professor of Medicine & Director of Preventive Cardiology & Lipid Clinic, University of ...