It is well established among nephrologists that advanced renal failure is associated with an increased prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) disease including myocardial infarction, stroke and heart failure [1]. Recently, a great amount of information has become available, which demonstrates that the finding of minor abnormalities of renal function also predicts more CV risk in the general populati...

BACKGROUND Women who use combined hormonal contraceptives and cigarettes have an increased risk for cardiovascular (CV) events. We reviewed the literature to determine whether women who use hormonal contraceptives (HC) and electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) also have an increased risk. STUDY DESIGN Systematic review. METHODS We searched for articles reporting myocardial infarction (MI), s...

OBJECTIVES To determine the repeatability of knee joint impulsive loading measurements with skin-mounted accelerometers (SMAs) and lower limb surface electromyography (EMG) recordings during gait. METHODS Triaxial SMA and EMG from 4 muscles during level and stair walking in nine healthy and nine knee osteoarthritis (OA) subjects were used. The initial peak acceleration (IPA), root mean square...

Introduction: Previous studies of the radiographic progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA) have yielded highly inconsistent estimates of the overall rate and variability of joint space narrowing (JSN)—a surrogate for loss of articular cartilage. Published estimates of the annual rate of JSN in these studies, all of which relied on the conventional standing anteroposterior (AP) radiograph, have ...

H ypertension is a powerful risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. The coexistence of hypertension and type 2 diabetes is devastating to the CV system (1). Lowering blood pressure (BP) is especially beneficial in diabetic patients, and therefore the goal BP in these patients is 130/80 mmHg rather than 140/90 mmHg, which is the goal in the general population (2,3). The Join...

INTRODUCTION This study evaluated the prevalence and progression of subclinical carotid artery atherosclerosis in active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Carotid arteries of RA patients were scanned using 3D ultrasound at baseline and 24 weeks for total plaque area, vessel wall volume, and intima-media thickness (IMT), as well as arterial stiffness measured using pulse wave velocity. Variab...

In attempts to better understand the etiology of osteoarthritis, a debilitating joint disease that results in the degeneration of articular cartilage (AC) in synovial joints, researchers have focused on joint tribology, the study of joint friction, lubrication, and wear. Several different approaches have been used to investigate the frictional properties of articular cartilage. In this study, w...

fracture mapping of late permian-early triassic flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the sydney basin,new south wales, australia, shows that joints developed originally in extension were faulted in subsequentevents. joints with a regional distribution fall into two (early and late) formed groups. group i joints propagatedhorizontally and never interfered with each other. these joints were subsequent...

The greater fluctuations in motor output that are often exhibited by old adults can be reduced with strength training. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of strength and steadiness training by old adults on fluctuations in force and position during voluntary contractions with the quadriceps femoris muscle. Healthy old adults (65-80 yr) completed 16 wk of heavy-load (80% of max...