A non-invasive method using continuous wave Doppler shift ultrasound and spectral analysis was used as a screening test for severe carotid artery disease in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass operations. One hundred and eighty-eight patients were examined before cardiac surgery (91 for ischaemic heart disease, 17 for ischaemic heart disease and valve replacement, 66 for valve replacemen...

A random sample of 283 men and 250 women between the ages of 30 and 69 years has been investigated for the three coronary risk factors-smoking, hyperlipoproteinaemia, and hypertension, and 146 men and 87 women with ischaemic heart disease have undergone a similar investigation. Smoking and hyperlipoproteinaemia are significantly more common in both men and women in ischaemic heart disease group...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of systematic screening for risk factors for ischaemic heart disease followed by repeated lifestyle counselling on the 10 year development of ischaemic heart disease at a population level. DESIGN Randomised controlled community based trial. SETTING Suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 59,616 people aged 30-60 years randomised with different age ...

AIMS To identify risk factors for the development of coronary artery disease after heart transplantation. METHODS AND RESULTS In consecutive heart transplanted patients, who underwent coronary angiography at the first year follow-up, the aetiology of heart failure in 113 was ischaemic heart disease or dilated cardiomyopathy. Development of clinically significant graft coronary artery disease ...

OBJECTIVE To examine mortality from ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease in England and Wales by country of birth of the deceased. DESIGN Standardised mortality ratios were computed by country of birth groups for ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease for 1979-83 and 1970-2 by using the five year age-sex specific rates for England and Wales for 1979-83 as standard....

AIM To evaluate the interphase ribosomal RNA cistron activity of cardiomyocytes in case with ischaemic heart disease complicated by heart failure. METHODS Nucleoli were investigated in postmortem myocardium samples from 31 cases with ischaemic heart disease (mean (SEM), 57.4 (6.5) years) with or without severe heart failure (18 and 13, respectively) and from eight healthy people who died in a...