Background: Psychocardiological researches have suggested a central role of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) on psychocardiological mechanism. This study aimed to further explore the central role of 5-HT and pretreatment effects of XinLingWan on rats with myocardial infarction (MI) and/or depression. Methods: Ninety Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into three groups: MI group, depression g...

Previous epidemiological studies have suggested that genetic factors are more likely to influence the development of premature coronary artery disease (CAD) than disease in older patients. Several studies have evaluated the association between the G894T polymorphism located in an exon of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and the risk of premature CAD. However, the findings were inconsist...

Patients with both atrial fibrillation (AF) and prior myocardial infarction (MI) represent a unique and potentially high risk population. Strategies for managing these patients using the newer factor-specific oral anticoagulants are somewhat limited, as these patients represent a small fraction of the overall cohorts studied and only limited results have been published previously. Mahaffey et a...

he outcome of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) has been substantially improved by the introduction of reperfusion therapy and its continuous refinement. Current reperfusion methodology salvages more than 50% of the ischemic myocardium from infarction in approximately half of acute MI patients without cardiogenic shock. 1 However, in 25% of acute MI patients, myocardial salvage by ...

Objective: To test whether maintenance self-efficacy predicts physical activity among individuals who maintain an active lifestyle and whether recovery self-efficacy predicts physical activity among those who relapse to a less active lifestyle. Study Design and Participants: In a longitudinal study, data were collected from 114 participants 4–10 days after a myocardial infarction (MI), 2 weeks ...

To clarify the relationship between diabetes mellitus (DM) and fatal ventricular arrhythmias, such as ventricular tachycardia (VT), in patients with ishcemic heart disease, signal-averaged electrocardiograms were recorded in 107 patients with DM and/or myocardial infarction (MI). During the acute stage of MI (within 6 weeks of onset), patients with DM had significantly greater amplitude in the ...

Let g ≥ 3 and n ≥ 0, and let Mg,n be the mapping class group of a surface of genus g with n boundary components. We prove that Mg,n contains a unique subgroup of index 2g−1(2g − 1) up to conjugation, a unique subgroup of index 2g−1(2g + 1) up to conjugation, and the other proper subgroups ofMg,n are of index greater than 2g−1(2g+1). In particular, the minimum index for a proper subgroup of Mg,n...