background: there are widespread misconceptions about the positive effects of opium on coronary artery disease (cad). thus, we performed a study to explore the opium addiction process contributing factors among cad patients using a grounded theory approach.   methods : the sample comprised 30 addicted cad patients and their family members, physicians, nurses and friends. purposive and theoretic...

OBJECTIVE Only a small fraction of coronary artery disease (CAD) heritability has been explained by common variants identified to date. Interactions between genes of importance to cardiovascular regulation may account for some of the missing heritability of CAD. This study aimed to investigate the role of gene-gene interactions in common variants in candidate cardiovascular genes in CAD. APPR...

This paper uses a CAD methodology proposed by the authors to design a low-power 2ndorder Σ∆M. This modulator has been fabricated in a 0.7μm CMOS technology to be used as the front-end of an energy metering mixed-signal ASIC and features 16.4bit at a digital output rate of 9.6kHz with a power consumption of 1.71mW. It yields a value of the figure which is the smallest reported to now, thus demon...