With significant therapeutic advances in the field of pulmonary arterial hypertension, the need to identify clinically relevant treatment goals that correlate with long-term outcome has emerged as 1 of the most critical tasks. Current goals include achieving modified New York Heart Association functional class I or II, 6-min walk distance >380 m, normalization of right ventricular size and func...

OBJECTIVE To compare blood pressure measurements taken at home by physicians, nurses, and patients with office blood pressure measurement , ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and home blood pressure measurement. METHODS A total of 44 patients seen by a home care program were studied. Protocol 1 a) blood pressure was measured by the patient, a physician and a nurse during a regular home visi...

BACKGROUND In contrast to systolic function, which is relatively well preserved with advancing age, diastolic function declines steadily after age 30. Our goal was to determine whether changes in diastolic function that occur with aging could be reversed with exercise training. Methods and Results-- Adult (6-month-old) and old (24-month-old) Fischer 344/BNF1 rats were studied after either 12 we...

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a respiratory disease. COPD patients present not only with the features of tract infections (cough, dyspnea, etc.) but also other comorbidities. Cardiovascular one them. and CVD cause various metabolic disturbances like dyselectrolytemia. Aim: Study serum electrolytes in suffering from or without CVD. Method: hospital-based study that include...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of the type of prosthesis in-hospital mortality in the post-operative period in patients who had valve replacement. METHODS A cross-sectional data, such as gender, origin, age, etiology, echocardiograph data, the type of surgery performed and the prosthesis used in cases of valve replacement were analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS We reviewed 353 charts of...

BACKGROUND Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) provides relevant data about blood pressure over a 24-h period. The analysis of parameters to determine the blood pressure profile from these data is of great importance. OBJECTIVES To calculate areas under systolic and diastolic blood pressure curves (SBP-AUC/DBP-AUC) and compare with systolic and diastolic blood pressure load (SBPL/DBPL...

Objective: The idea that different sports and physical training type results in different cardiac adaptations has been widely accepted. However, this remodelling process among different sport modalities is still not fully understood. Thus, the current study aims to investigate the heart morphology variation associated with a set of different modalities characterized by distinct models of prepar...