(STUD); (3) circulatory (ischemic heart disease, heart failure, hypertension, stroke); (4) respiratory (asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder); (5) inflammatory or musculoskeletal (osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis); (6) diabetes; (7) kidney disease (chronic kidney disease...
It is in general difficult to predict which patient with stable ischemic heart disease will receive interventional or surgical revascularization in the long term, after initially being treated with optimal medical therapy (OMT). In the occluded artery trial (OAT), late opening of infarct-related art...
Lacunar infarcts were defined as having ≥ 1 ischemic infarction (< 1.0 cm) in the deep white matter, the basal ganglia or pons [32]. CMBs were defined as having ≥ 1 small (0,2 − 0,5 cm) hypointense lesion [32], using the SWAN sequence. Cortical atrophy was def...
inpatient or emergency department (ER) visit with a primary diagnosis of coronary heart disease (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification [ICD-9-CM], codes 410–414), cardiac arrhythmia (code 427), heart failure (code 428), or ischemic stroke (codes 433-434...
Antiviral cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) may play a role in clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected cells and thereby cause hepatocellular injury during acute and chronic HCV infection. The aim of this study was to identify HLA-A2.1-restricted HCV T-cell epitopes and to evaluate whether ...
ICD-9-CM CodeDescription 402.01 Malignant, hypertensive heart disease with heart failure 402.11 Benign, hypertensive heart disease with heart failure 402.91 Unspecified, hypertensive heart disease with heart failure 404.01 Malignant, hypertensive heart and renal disease with heart failure 404.03 Malignant, ...
and written consent had been obtained from all participants. The protocols of sample collection and RNA-seq analysis of whole heart tissue were previously described21. The history of ICD implantation or sustained ventricular tachycardia events in 12 months prior to heart transplantation was collected. ...
Bronchial asthma influences some chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension, but the impact of asthma on vital diseases such as chronic kidney disease is not yet verified. This study aims to clarify the associati
HCV-infected subjects with the following pre-existing or co-existing comorbidities were excluded: diabetes (ICD-9-CM code 250), hypertension (ICD-9-CM codes 401–405), hyperlipidemia (ICD-9-CM codes 272–272.4), coronary heart disease (ICD-9-CM codes 410–414), and liver cirrhosis (ICD-...
The liver injury included disorders of bilirubin excretion (ICD-9-CM code 277.4), acute and sub-acute necrosis of the liver (ICD- 9-CM code 570), other sequelae of chronic liver disease (ICD-9-CM code 572.8), hepatitis (ICD-9-CM code 573.3), other specified liver disorders (ICD-9-...