fatty liver disease (fld) is the most prevalent form of liver disease worldwide. overnutrition can induce nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld), a spectrum of conditions ranging from simple steatosis [or nonalcoholic fatty liver (nafl)] to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and cirrhosis. some of the epidemiological and pathological studies have also suggested an association between the presence o...

published online Nov 2, 2009; J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. Kersten, Barbara Riegel, and John F. Robb Fleischmann, William K. Freeman, James B. Froehlich, Edward K. Kasper, Judy R. E. Joshua A. Beckman, Kenneth A. Brown, Hugh Calkins, Elliot L. Chaikof, Kirsten Society for Vascular Medicine, Society for Vascular Surgery, Lee A. Fleisher, Anesthesiologists, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Int...

The major cardiovascular diseases affecting the developed world have at their core atherosclerosis and hypertension, both of which are profoundly affected by diet and can be approached, at least in part, from a nutritional point of view, as can the increasing "epidemic" of obesity. Diet is a multi-component mixture of many nutrients, which may interact with one another. The definitive study of ...

Victoria L. Vetter, Josephine Elia, Christopher Erickson, Stuart Berger, Nathan Blum, Karen Congenital Cardiac Defects Committee and the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young Medications for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder : A Scientific Statement From Cardiovascular Monitoring of Children and Adolescents With He...

2012;93:1340-1395 Ann Thorac Surg Ruiz, Ralph L. Sacco, Donnette Smith and James D. Thomas Linderbaum, Chirojit Mukherjee, Debabrata Mukherjee, Catherine M. Otto, Carlos E. Fred H. Edwards, Gary S. Francis, Timothy J. Gardner, A. Pieter Kappetein, Jane A. Alexander, Steven R. Bailey, John H. Calhoon, Blase A. Carabello, Milind Y. Desai, David R. Holmes, Jr., Michael J. Mack, Sanjay Kaul, Arvind...

BACKGROUND Over the last two decades the UK health service has endeavoured to place patient and public involvement at the heart of its modernisation agenda. Despite these aspirations the role of patients in the development of nursing curricula remains limited. AIM A descriptive qualitative design was used to explore the views of cardiac patients about the educational preparation of cardiac nu...

BACKGROUND The high financial burden of avoidable hospitalizations has led to an increase of the study of hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC). There is limited information on the impact of secondary diagnoses on these hospitalizations, although patients' social and demographic characteristics, as well as the coexistence of multiple diseases are often identified in t...

The aim of this study was to examine health-related quality of life (HRQL) as measured by SF-36 and to identify these factors and the preferred health-seeking institutions of 12,800 persons aged 60 and older with and without chronic conditions in rural areas of Guangdong Province by multistage stratified cluster sampling method. HRQL among rural elderly subjects with chronic conditions was lowe...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Despite the widespread availability of evidence-based clinical guidelines and validated risk predication equations for prevention and management of CVD, their translation into routine practice is limited. We developed a multifaceted quality improvement intervention for CVD risk management which incor...