Recent progress suggests that integrative cardiac reserve is important in coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and other cardiovascular diseases. Integrative cardiac reserve includes coronary flow reserve, myocardial reserve, energy reserve, and heart rate reserve. In the case of stress reaction, coronary flow reserve can provide excessive blood and energy supply and ...

diseases of heart and stroke cause most deaths in both sexes of all ethnic groups. for more than 40 years epidemiological studies, experimental studies, and clinical trials have shown that numerous dietary risk factors affect serum lipids, atherogenesis and coronary heart disease (chd). substantial interest has recently focused on the hypothesis that the naturally occurring antioxidant vitamins...

familial defective apolipoprotein (apo) b 100 (fdb) causes early-onset coronary heart diseases (chd). it is produced by r3500q mutation of the apob gene resulting in decreased binding of ldl to ldl receptor. we screened the apo b gene for r3500q mutation in 130 hypercholesterolemic patients, among whom 30 patients met criteria of familial hypercholesterolemia (fh). the prevalence of r3500q alle...

Cigarette smoking causes injury of coronary arteries as well as other arteries. Sudden death is more frequent in heavy smokers than in non smok­ers. Studies showed that dangerous arrhythmias will be the result of effect of nicotine when injected in the animals. Carbon-monooxide is also dangerous for man when it is produced by smoking.  The prevention of heart disease will be more satisfactory ...

Heart diseases and stroke represent an epidemic cause of death and disability in developed countries1, responsible for about 30 percent of all deaths worldwide each year. The term cardiovascular diseases (CVD) include coronary heart disease (CHD) (myocardial infarction [MI], angina pectoris, coronary insufficiency, and coronary death), cerebrovascular diseases (stroke and transient ischemic att...

To examine the cardiovascular adaptations and functional capacity (6 min walk test, rate of perceived exertion, resting heart rate, maximal systolic diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure) by giving Aerobic Exercises in Post Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty patients. The need for study is to know efficiency aerobic exercises post percutaneous transluminal coronary angiop...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between trends over time in mortality and hospital morbidity caused by various cardiovascular diseases in the Netherlands. DESIGN Trend analysis by Poisson regression of national data on mortality and hospital admissions from 1975 to 1995. SUBJECTS The Dutch population. RESULTS All cardiovascular diseases combined were responsible for 39% of all deaths an...