The Frequency of Exfoliation Syndrome in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey by Raşit Kılıç, Hafize Sezer, Sebile Ü. Çomçalı, Serdar Bayraktar, Gökay Göktolga, Yasin Çakmak, Abdi B. Çetin, Tongabay Cumurcu

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of exfoliation syndrome in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey and to evaluate its relationship with cardiovascular and ocular diseases. Methods. Patients over the age of 45 years who presented to the clinic were included in the study. …”
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Role of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathways in Multifactorial Adverse Cardiac Remodeling Associated with Metabolic Syndrome by Mohamed Asrih, François Mach, Alessio Nencioni, Franco Dallegri, Alessandra Quercioli, Fabrizio Montecucco

“…Metabolic syndrome has been widely associated with an increased risk for acute cardiovascular events. Emerging evidence supports metabolic syndrome as a condition favoring an adverse cardiac remodeling, which might evolve towards heart dysfunction and failure. …”
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Characteristics of the level of athletes' sports preparedness in freestyle wrestling by Bakytbek Konakbayev, Raisa Bekembetova, Omirzhan Bekturganov, Mukhtar Yeskaliyev, Dinara Zhunisbek

“…An in-depth complex examination was performed, which included assessment of anthropometric indices, registration of the main parameters of external respiration and gas exchange, cardiovascular system. Results: The indicators of recovery processes during the training process and competitive activity were obtained to assess the level of preparation of freestyle wrestlers, where a number of shortcomings of their training were revealed. …”
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Prevalence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in post-tuberculosis lung fibrosis patients: A cross-sectional observational study by Rupak Chatterjee, Priyanka Ghosh, Kumkum Sarkar, Shambo Samrat Samajdar, Shatavisa Mukherjee, Alex George, Netai Pramanik

“…Sixty adult post-TB lung fibrosis patients without any cardiovascular or other pulmonary comorbidities were included in this study. …”
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Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty Prior to Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Novel Approach to Aortic Stenosis and End-Stage Liver Disease by Edward Coverstone, Kevin Korenblat, Jeffrey S. Crippin, William C. Chapman, Andrew M. Kates, Alan Zajarias

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Primary Adrenal Failure due to Antiphospholipid Syndrome by Murat Sahin, Ayten Oguz, Dilek Tuzun, Serife Nur Boysan, Bülent Mese, Hatice Sahin, Kamile Gul

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Deep Learning for Predicting Spheroid Viability: Novel Convolutional Neural Network Model for Automating Quality Control for Three-Dimensional Bioprinting by Zyva A. Sheikh, Oliver Clarke, Amatullah Mir, Narutoshi Hibino

“…This deep-learning model offers a non-invasive, efficient, and accurate method to streamline the assessment of spheroid quality, thereby accelerating the development of bioengineered cardiac tissue patches for cardiovascular disease therapies.…”
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Alterations in Serum Adropin, Adiponectin, and Proinflammatory Cytokine Levels in OSAS by Hakan Celikhisar, Gulay Dasdemir Ilkhan

“…The present study was planned to examine the relationships between obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and the newly revealed adipokines adropin and adiponectin concentrations that display significant metabolic and cardiovascular functions and the levels of proinflammatory cytokine levels. …”
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Effect of Orexin-A on Cortisol Secretion in H295R Cells via p70S6K/4EBP1 Signaling Pathway by Xiaocen Chang, Yuyan Zhao, Lei Guo

“…These hormones may also serve as a kind of signal linking energy balance regulation, reproduction, stress response, and cardiovascular regulation. Many studies have demonstrated the ability of orexin-A to regulate adrenocortical cells through the MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinases) pathway. …”
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Androgenic Anabolic Steroids Cause Thiol Imbalance in the Vascular Endothelial Cells by Halszka Ponamarczuk, Maria Światkowska, Marcin Popielarski

“…AAS abuse is correlated with severe damage to the cardiovascular system, including changes in homeostasis and coagulation disorders. …”
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Remote Minimally Invasive Surgery – Haptic Feedback and Selective Automation in Medical Robotics by Christoph Staub, Keita Ono, Hermann Mayer, Alois Knoll, Heinz Ulbrich, Robert Bauernschmitt

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Refined matrix completion for spectrum estimation of heart rate variability by Lei Lu, Tingting Zhu, Ying Tan, Jiandong Zhou, Jenny Yang, Lei Clifton, Yuan-Ting Zhang, David A. Clifton

“…Heart rate variability (HRV) is an important metric in cardiovascular health monitoring. Spectral analysis of HRV provides essential insights into the functioning of the cardiac autonomic nervous system. …”
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Identification and analysis of individuals who deviate from their genetically-predicted phenotype. by Gareth Hawkes, Loic Yengo, Sailaja Vedantam, Eirini Marouli, Robin N Beaumont, GIANT Consortium, Jessica Tyrrell, Michael N Weedon, Joel Hirschhorn, Timothy M Frayling, Andrew R Wood

“…We classified 156 (0.12%) individuals as misaligned to their genetically predicted LDL-C and show that these individuals were enriched for both clinically actionable cardiovascular risk factors and rare genetic variants in genes previously shown to be involved in metabolic processes. …”
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Risk Factors Associated with Cerebrovascular Diseases in Patients at the Tulcán Sur Health Center by María Verónica Aveiga Hidalgo, Dennis Mateo Lomas Males, Jordán Alexis Ruano Paspuel, Kevin Joel Salazar Estrada

“…High blood pressure, smoking and obesity were the most common cardiovascular risk factors with 73 (56.5 %), 79 (60.7 %), 64 (49.2 %) patients respectively. …”
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Acute Contained Ruptured Aortic Aneurysm Presenting as Left Vocal Fold Immobility by Sharon H. Gnagi, Brittany E. Howard, Joseph M. Hoxworth, David G. Lott

“…Ortner’s syndrome, or cardiovocal syndrome, is hoarseness secondary to left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy caused by cardiovascular pathology. It is a rare condition and, while typically presenting gradually, may also present with acute symptomatology.…”
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Association between non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol-to-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and macroalbuminuria: evidence from NHANES 1999-2018 by Dongli Huang, Yuan He

“…PurposeThe non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (NHHR) is a crucial lipid marker associated with various cardiovascular diseases. However, its relationship with kidney injury, particularly albuminuria, remains poorly understood. …”
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Quantitative CT: Associations between Emphysema, Airway Wall Thickness and Body Composition in COPD by Erica P. A. Rutten, Thomas B. Grydeland, Sreekumar G. Pillai, Scott Wagers, Asger Dirksen, Harvey O. Coxson, Amund Gulsvik, Emiel F. M. Wouters, Per S. Bakke

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Myocardial Regeneration via Progenitor Cell-Derived Exosomes by Janita A. Maring, Christien M. Beez, Volkmar Falk, Martina Seifert, Christof Stamm

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Comparing imputation approaches to handle systematically missing inputs in risk calculators. by Anja Mühlemann, Philip Stange, Antoine Faul, Serena Lozza-Fiacco, Rowan Iskandar, Manuela Moraru, Susanne Theis, Petra Stute, Ben D Spycher, David Ginsbourger

“…To illustrate this, we use the SCORE2 risk calculator for cardiovascular disease and a data set including medical data from 359 women, obtained from the gynecology department at the Inselspital in Bern, Switzerland. …”
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Nano-technological advancements in multimodal diagnosis and treatment by Dinesh Bhatia, Tania Acharjee, Shruti Shukla, Monika Bhatia

“…This nanotechnology-based technique personalizes medicines for diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), focusing on damaged tissues to improve therapeutic response. …”
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