cardiovascular diseaseopioidsQT intervaltorsades de pointesThis article provides an integrative review of the literature on long-term opioid use, its effects on the cardiovascular system, and its implications for nurses. As this literature review shows, long-term opioid use can adversely affect the ...
The Long-term Effects of Alcohol on the Cardiovascular System The toxic effects of chronic alcohol abuse on cerebral and hepatic function have long been recognized.1Moreover, it is clear that the habitual consumption of large amounts of alcohol has a variety of deleterious effects on the cardiova...
The most serious potential long-term effect of drug abuse and drug addiction is death. Drugs can kill slowly over time, but they can also cause a fatal overdose. Any misuse of any type of drug puts a person at risk for having an overdose that may be fatal. That risk increases when usi...
Comparison of the effect of valsartan and lisinopril on autonomic nervous system activity in chronic heart failure In chronic heart failure (CHF), the derangement of autonomic nervous system activity has a deep impact on the progression of the disease. It has been demon... ED Tommasi,M Iacoviel...
There have been reports of long coronavirus disease (long COVID) and breakthrough infections (BTIs); however, the mechanisms and pathological features of long COVID after Omicron BTIs remain unclear. Assessing long-term effects of COVID-19 and immune rec
Results of Study 1 revealed that efficient control of memories was associated with long-term inhibition of the cardiac deceleration that is normally induced by disgusting stimuli. Attempts to suppress sad memories, by contrast, aggravated the cardiac response, an effect that was closely related to ...
There was a lack of evidence on the long-term effectiveness of multidisciplinary risk-stratification based management programs in Chinese population. This study aimed at evaluating the impact of RAMP-DM on the incidences of diabetic cardiovascular complications and all-cause mortality at 3 years of ...
endpoint comprising cardiovascular mortality, acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, and heart failure was significantly lower in the tofogliflozin group than in the conventional treatment group (Additional file 4), suggesting a long-term effect of tofogliflozin on the suppression of cardiovascular ...
No anticontractile effect of the PVAT was observed in untreated SAMP8 mice. Long-term treatment of SAMP8 mice with melatonin increased the expression of some markers of vasoprotection, decreased oxidative stress and inflammation and restored the anticontractile effect of the PVAT. Decreased ...
Long-term effect of diuretic-based therapy on fatal outcomes in subjects with isolated systolic hypertension with and without diabetes. Am J Cardiol 2005; 95: 29–35. 10 Ueshima K, Oba K, Yasuno S, Fujimoto A, Sato T, Fukiyama K, Azuma J, Ogihara T, Saruta T, Nakao K, Candesartan ...