Maximizing Cardiovascular Event Reduction by Expanding and Intensifying the Targets

Genome-Wide Study of Gene Variants Associated with Differential Cardiovascular Event Reduction by Pravastatin Therapy

Statin therapy reduces the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), however, the person-to-person variability in response to statin therapy is not well understood. We have investigated the effect of genetic variation on the reduction of CHD events by pravastatin. First, we conducted a genome-wide association study of 682 CHD cases from the Cholesterol and Recurrent Events (CARE) trial and 383 CHD ...

Cardiovascular Event Prediction by Machine Learning

Technically Efficient Targets for the Groups by Using the Centralized Scenario and Enhanced Russell Measure

Cooper et al. [Efficiency aggregation with enhanced Russell measures in data envelopment analysis, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 41 (2007) 1–21] presented a method for measuring aggregate efficiency, using the enhanced Russell measure. In that paper, they posed questions and opened the way for new opportunities for studying and extending the proposed method and some other related fields. On...

The expanding cardiovascular phenotype of Marfan syndrome.

In this issue of the journal, Kiotsekoglou et al. report on right ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS). Over the past years, several studies have demonstrated mild, though significant, left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in patients with MFS. This is the first study indicating impaired right ventricular function. Marfan syndrome is an autosomal...

examining the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and communication strategies by iranian efl learners

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation (fne) and communication strategies (css) among iranian efl learners. it was aimed to examine the differences in the use of communication strategies between speakers with high or low degree of fear of negative evaluation. the current study was a case study consisting of 10 english learners at...