Diabetes mellitus is a well-recognized risk-factor for coronary artery disease. It is known that diabetic patients have a two-to fourfold increased risk of mortality or morbidity for cardiovascular diseases compared with the general population. Further, many diabetic patients with coronary heart disease have severe diseased coronary arteries: multi-vessel disease and/or severe stenosed vessel(s...

BACKGROUND Chest pain raises concern for the possibility of coronary heart disease. Scoring methods have been developed to identify coronary heart disease in emergency settings, but not in primary care. METHODS Data were collected from a multicenter Swiss clinical cohort study including 672 consecutive patients with chest pain, who had visited one of 59 family practitioners' offices. Using de...

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk for failure, cardiovascular (CVD), and death. In fact, the likelihood of dying from CVD is markedly higher than that reaching end-stage renal disease. Evidence-based management comorbidities such as remains challenging in patients advanced CKD, they were usually excluded randomized controlled trials. This review focuses on epidemi...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Although elderly people has a higher incidence of coronary heart disease, this group is seldom included in clinical trials. Studies performed in Spain on elderly coronary heart disease patients have been conducted in hospital settings. The aim of our study was to analyse wether the management of coronary heart disease patients over 64 years of age cared by family phy...

Introduction: Nowadays, with the advancement of technology and industrial life, the prevalence of heart diseases including coronary artery diseases has considerably increased. Coronary artery diseases are one of the most common and serious diseases that threaten human life. Methods: The present study is a comparative-descriptive research. The statistical ...

The observation that Hispanics have lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality rates despite increased rates of diabetes and obesity and lower socioeconomic status has been termed the "Hispanic paradox." The authors therefore examined the relation between ethnicity and mortality in 1,438 Mexican-American and 921 non-Hispanic White San Antonio Heart Study participants, aged 45-64 years when th...

BACKGROUND Limited evidence is available about the relations between sodium and potassium intakes and cardiovascular disease in the general population. OBJECTIVE The objective was to investigate relations between sodium and potassium intakes and cardiovascular disease in Asian populations whose mean sodium intake is generally high. DESIGN Between 1988 and 1990, a total of 58,730 Japanese su...

Background—Periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) cause repetitive sympathetic activation and may be associated with increased cardiovascular risk. We hypothesized that PLMS frequency (periodic limb movement index [PLMI]) and PLMS arousal frequency (periodic limb movement arousal index [PLMAI]) are predictive of incident cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart disease, peripheral ...

Coronary heart disease is the single leading cause of death in women and a significant cause of disability. Menopause adversely affects several risk factors for coronary heart disease, suggesting that hormones influence the risk of coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women. This article reviews the observational and clinical trial data evaluating the relation between cardiovascular disease...