background: in some studies, the involvement of dangerous psychological and behavioral factors in etiology and physiotherapy of vascular disturbances have been shown. in other studies, the relationship between the personality type and increase in cardiovascular disease has been demonstrated. the type d personality is defined as having two characteristics of negative affect and social inhibition...

Brief summary: This prospective cohort study leveraged data from the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohorts (i3C) Consortium, including 42 324 participants at baseline and followed-up over a mean of 35 years, in order to investigate associations between cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF, body-mass index, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol levels, triglycerides, smoking) childhoo...

the present study aimed to evaluate the distributions of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein, tc-hdl ratio and 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases among iranian adult population. we conducted a cross-sectional study on a total of 2125 adults aged 25 to 65. data of the third national surveillance of risk factors of non-communicable diseases (surfncd-2007) was used. anthropometric indices, bl...

uring the rapid development of imaging modalities in cardiology, nuclear cardiology has played an important role in direct visualization of myocardial ischemia. Its contribution to prognostic evaluation in the USA and Europe has been established and major predictors of cardiovascular events have been assembled in nuclear cardiology guidelines.1 The value of prognostic evaluation and risk strati...