4. ALLHAT Officers and Coordinators for the ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group. The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial. Major outcomes in high-risk hypertensive patients randomized to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or calcium channel blocker vs diuretic: The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT). J...

A family history of heart attack is reported to be an independent predictor of cardiovascular death in men. In a 9 year follow-up of 4014 adults from 40 to 79 years old in the Rancho Bemardo Study, men under 60 years of age with a family history of heart attack were at fivefold increased risk. In this study, we sought to determine whether modifiable risk factors, i.e., blood pressure, plasma ch...

Introduction: Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) is one of the deadliest diseases patients face. The key to cardiovascular disease management is to evaluate large scores of datasets, compare and mine for information that can be used to predict, prevent, manage and treat chronic diseases such as heart attacks. Big Data analytics, known in the corporate world for its valuable use in contr...

Introduction Proper classification of heart abnormalities can lead to significant improvements in predictions of heart failures. The variety of patient attributes that factor into arrhythmia classification and the number of resulting arrhythmia classes make this a complex problem to solve. Here, I use UCI’s arrhythmia database[1] and apply a supervised learning algorithm, implemented in Matlab,...

In the 1980s, people in high-income countries who became HIV positive had about 10 years before succumbing to dreadful AIDS-related infections and eventual death. But in 1996, HAART became available and the spectre of many AIDS-related deaths gradually receded. Today, HIV positive people who have minimal co-existing health conditions and who are engaged in their care and treatment will likely h...

UNLABELLED Chest pain is the typical symptom of myocardial infarction (MI), and there are many atypical manifestations such as stomachache or dyspnea. Headache is a rare presentation of MI, which has specifically been termed "cardiac cephalalgia" or "cardiac cephalgia". In this article, we have reported a case of sudden onset headache and neck pain, of whom MI was confirmed by electrocardiograp...

A high proportion (40%) of patients with definite myocardial ischaemia who were questioned on admission to a Cardiac Monitoring Unit had experienced preceding chest pain which had been misinterpreted by both the patients themselves and doctors as 'indigestion' and which had often been inappropriately treated. 'Indigestion' in the chest in previously non-dyspeptic subjects over 40 years of age s...