Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the difference between effect of anterior diaphragmatic training and breathing on ventilatory function in post-menopausal kyphotic women. Subjects: Sixty women complaining from kyphosis participated this study. They were selected randomly Tanta University Hospital Tanta. Their ages ranged 50 60 years old. body mass index 25-30 kg/m2. degree moderat...

Essential hypertension, obesity, and congestive heart failure are characterized by an increase in muscle sympathetic nerve activity. Whether in these conditions skin sympathetic nerve activity is also increased has never been systematically examined, however. In 10 untreated mild essential hypertensive, 12 untreated normotensive obese, 10 mild (New York Heart Association class II) heart failure...

BACKGROUND There is limited knowledge of how co-morbidities influence survival after surgery for oesophageal cancer. This population-based cohort study investigated how Charlson co-morbidity index and specific co-morbidities influenced all-cause and disease-specific mortality. METHODS Data from all patients who underwent oesophageal cancer surgery in Sweden in 1987-2010, with follow-up until ...

The cardiovascular actions of a dopamine analog, propylbutyldopamine (PBDA), were examined for the first time in conscious dogs, normal human volunteers, and patients with congestive heart failure. PBDA lowered blood pressure without reflex increases in heart rate, increased renal blood flow, and decreased renal vascular resistance in dogs previously instrumented to allow measurement of arteria...

Gerbode, F., Kerth, W. J., Hill, J. D., Banerjee, S., and Marcelletti, C. (1974). Thorax, 29, 282-286. Elective operations for left ventricular asynergy. Operative results in 45 patients with symptomatic left ventricular asynergy are reviewed. The main symptoms were congestive heart failure in 77-7%, angina in 3141%, arrhythmias in 11-1%, and systemic thromboembolism in 2 2% of the patients. Al...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac dysrhythmia and a source of considerable morbidity and mortality, but lifetime risk for AF has not been estimated. METHODS AND RESULTS We included all participants in the Framingham Heart Study who were free of AF at index ages of 40 years and older. We estimated lifetime risks for AF (including atrial flutter) to age 95 years, wi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the results of troponin I (cTnI) in non- acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We also examined the risk factors for elevated cTnI in non-ACS patients with CKD and whether stage 5 CKD modifies the associations of elevated cTnI and the risk factors in non-ACS patients with CKD. METHODS A retrospective study was p...