1605 Abstract—Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have now become the leading cause of mortality in India. A quarter of all mortality is attributable to CVD. Ischemic heart disease and stroke are the predominant causes and are responsible for >80% of CVD deaths. The Global Burden of Disease study estimate of age-standardized CVD death rate of 272 per 100 000 population in India is higher than the gl...

Cardiovascular diseases are the diseases of the heart (cardiac muscle) or blood vessels (vasculature). It is mainly caused due to the development of atheroma a fatty deposit within the inside lining of arteries. The lifestyle factors that can reduce the risk of forming atheroma are smoking; choosing healthy foods; a low salt intake; regular physical activity; keeping your weight and waist size ...

Cardiovascular Diseases Caused by Bartonella The main cell target for Bartonella infection is the endothelial cell which lines capillaries and the cardiovascular system. Bartonella attach to and penetrate endothelial and other cells which protects the bacteria from immune attack and stimulates the formation (angiogenesis) of new blood vessels. Thus, it is not surprising that some of the Bartone...

The future development of phytotherapy in the world medicine requires a new level of investigations aimed at the treatment of malignant formation, AIDS and cardiovascular diseases. With a view to including phytotherapy in the international system of public health, it is very significant to solve the problems regarding a creation of a unified standard for the application of plant-derived resourc...

Syncope is a clinical syndrome characterized by transient loss of consciousness and postural tone that is most often due to temporary and spontaneously self-terminating global cerebral hypoperfusion. A common presenting problem to health care systems, the management of syncope imposes a considerable socioeconomic burden. Clinical guidelines, such as the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines...

Several studies showed that anaemia is commonly observed in patients with Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) and is associated with worsened symptoms and survival. When anaemia in these patients is treated with erythropoietin (EPO), a significant improvement in cardiac function and symptoms was observed. Although it was originally believed that EPO specifically acted on haematopoietical cells, recent ...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases arise during 0,2% to 4% of all pregnancies in the industrialized world. In Germany, this type of complication, which is sometimes lethal, affects approximately 30 000 pregnant women per year. METHODS We performed a simple literature search in the NCBI databases for publications that appeared from 2008 to 2010 and that contained the search terms "pregnancy" a...

Cardiovascular diseases have emerged as an important health problem in India. High blood pressure (BP) is a major risk factor and better control can lead to prevention of 300,000 of the 1.5 million annual deaths from cardiovascular diseases in India. Epidemiological studies demonstrate that prevalence of hypertension is increasing rapidly among Indian urban populations and using the current def...

Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Campinas State University Medical School. E-mail: [email protected] Cardiovascular diseases, especially those associated with atherosclerosis, are still one of the main causes of death worldwide. There are well-established risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, one of them being elevated levels of serum lipids combined with infections such as odonto...

Coronary artery diseases (CAD) and heart failure have high mortality rate in the world, although much progress has been made in this field in last two decades. There is still a clinical need for a novel diagnostic approach and a therapeutic strategy to decrease the incidence of CAD. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are highly conserved noncoding small RNA molecules that regulate a large fraction of the genom...