Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common type of birth defects and a major cause of children’s morbidity and mortality1,2. Early and accurate identification of affected pediatric patients is crucial for timely intervention and effective surgical outcomes3,4,5,6. However, commonl...
Men are more vulnerable to ischemic heart disease (IHD) than women, possibly due to testosterone. Correspondingly, sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) which lowers circulating testosterone might protect men against IHD. SHBG may also affect IHD independe
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders (2023) 23:155 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-023-03186-y BMC Cardiovascular Disorders RESEARCH Open Access Sub-clinical rheumatic heart disease (RHD) detected by hand-held echocardiogram in children participating in a school-based RHD prevention program in Tanzania ...
“our findings help to interpret the combination of risk factors that will lead to a high predicted cardiovascular disease risk and at what age they have an impact on risk,” lead study author vaishnavi krishnan , a researcher at northwestern university in chicago and a medical s...
In high-income, upper–middle-income, and lower–middle-income countries, ischemic heart disease was the most common cause of HF; while in low-income countries, hypertension was the most common cause. The proportion of HF due to valve disease was highest in low-income countries, followed by ...
Family history of coronary heart disease and pre-clinical carotid artery atherosclerosis in African- Americans and whites: the ARIC study: Atherosclerosis Risk in Com- munities. Genet Epidemiol Suppl. 1999;16:165-178.Bensen JT,Li R,Hutchinson RG, et al.Family history of coronary heart disease ...
13, 2023 (Healthday News) -- In a finding that could change the landscape of heart disease care, the wildly popular weight-loss drug Wegovy has proved its mettle in protecting the heart after lowering the risk of cardiac problems in patients by 20%. The results from this large, ...
Congenital cardiac disease in children with Down's syndrome in Guatemala. Cardiol Young 2005;15:286 –290. 14. Kerstann KF, Feingold E, Freeman SB, Bean LJ, et al. Linkage disequilibrium map- ping in trisomic populations: analytical approaches and an application to congenital heart defects in...
Mortality from heart and circulatory disease – the leading cause of death in the UK – declined in most places between 1982 and 2006, but for men and women aged 65 or older, the decline was smaller in the most deprived communities, resulting in a wider gap between rich and poor. The au...
A risk score based on a gene map predicted the likelihood of high blood pressure leading to heart problems or stroke in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to a study published today in the American Heart Association's peer-reviewed journal Hypertensi