Background: The superiority of TG/HDL-C and LDL-C/HDL-C ratios in predicting  CVD risk is a matter of debates. Thus, the objective of this study was to compare TG/HDL-C and LDL-C to HDL-C ratios in predicting the risk of CVD events. Methods: In a population-based cross-sectional study, 567 representative participants aged 40 years or older were entered in the study in Babol, North of Iran. The...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications, and assess healthcare costs in menopausal women using an estradiol transdermal system versus oral estrogen therapy (ET). METHODS Health insurance claims from 60 self-insured US companies from 1999 to 2011 were analyzed. Women at least 50 years of age, newly initiated on transdermal o...

Previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have evaluated the association of dairy consumption and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the findings were inconsistent. No quantitative analysis has specifically assessed the effect of yogurt intake on the incident risk of CVD. We searched the PubMed and the Embase databases from inception to 10 January 2017. A generic inverse-var...

BACKGROUND Prior studies suggest that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with elevated cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but effects of duration and remission of PTSD symptoms have rarely been evaluated. METHOD We examined the association of time-updated PTSD symptom severity, remission and duration with incident CVD risk (552 confirmed myocardial infarctions or strokes) ove...

OBJECTIVE To develop and recalibrate an Australian 5-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk score to produce contemporary predictions of risk. METHODS Data were pooled from six Australian cohort studies (n = 54,829), with baseline data collected between 1989 and 2003. Participants included were aged 40-74 years and free of CVD at baseline. Variables were harmonised across studies an...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to determine whether elevated dietary Na intake could be associated with CVD mortality. DESIGN We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies representing the general population. The adjusted relative risks and their 95 % confidence intervals were pooled by the inverse variance method using random-effects models. Hetero...

Developments of catalytic CVD generation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are reviewed with an emphasis on vertically aligned (VA) growth. Following the first realization of VA-SWNTs [1] by alcohol catalytic CVD (ACCVD) method, various techniques are reported for the vertical aligned growth such as control of water [2], point-arc microwave plasma CVD [3], molecular-beam CVD [4], hot-fi...

BACKGROUND Studies have questioned the downward trend in mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in Brazil in recent years. OBJECTIVE to analyze recent trends in mortality from ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke in the Brazilian population. METHODS Mortality and population data were obtained from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and the Ministry of Health. Risk ...

background: public service advertising (psa) is a public interest message disseminated in the form of an advertisement communication and its main purpose is to promote public behavioral changes regarding a social issue. korea centers for disease control and prevention (kcdc) has been delivering psa by various media. however, the effect of psas has never been evaluated. the purpose of this study...