Benzoylaconine: Potential Therapeutic Agent for Cardiovascular Diseases From Fuzi by Chenggang Xu, Le Tang, Lixin Hu, Yunzhe Huang, Jin Tang, Xiaohu Wang, Feng Wang

“…In recent years, benzoylaconine has garnered significant attention in basic research on heart diseases, emerging as a focal point of investigation. …”
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Chemistry and pharmacological diversity of quinoxaline motifs as anticancer agents by Ajani Olayinka O., Nlebemuo Martins T., Adekoya Joseph A., Ogunniran Kehinde O., Siyanbola Tolutope O., Ajanaku Christiana O.

“…Surpassing heart diseases, cancer is taking the lead as the deadliest disease because of its fast rate of spreading in all parts of the world. …”
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Gender differences in efficiency of the telemedicine care of heart failure patients. The results from the TeleEduCare-HF study by Agata Bielecka-Dąbrowa, Dariusz Trzmielak, Agata Sakowicz, Kamil Janikowski, Maciej Banach

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Experience with left ventricular assist device usage in the treatment of end-stage heart failure by B.M. Todurov, G.I. Kovtun, I.M. Kuzmich, M.V. Goncharenko, A.M. Druzhyna, A.O. Shpachuk, O.M. Postupalsky, S.O. Sheludko, S.M. Sudakevych, O.V. Stanyshevskyi, A.Yu. Melnyk

“…Heart failure potentially developing in most of heart diseases is a progressive process associated with high morbidity and mortality. …”
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Triggers for Atrial Fibrillation: The Role of Anxiety by Paolo Severino, Marco Valerio Mariani, Annalisa Maraone, Agostino Piro, Andrea Ceccacci, Lorenzo Tarsitani, Viviana Maestrini, Massimo Mancone, Carlo Lavalle, Massimo Pasquini, Francesco Fedele

“…Systemic arterial hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, and valvular heart diseases are major risk factors for the onset and progression of AF. …”
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Mechanical forces pattern endocardial Notch activation via mTORC2-PKC pathway by Yunfei Mu, Shijia Hu, Xiangyang Liu, Xin Tang, Jiayi Lin, Hongjun Shi

“…These findings highlight the role of mechanical forces as a primary cue for endocardial patterning and provide insights into the mechanisms underlying congenital heart diseases of endocardial origin.…”
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A New Self-Made 16-Channel Capacitive Electrocardiography System: An Investigation and Validation for Non-Contact Electrodes by Jinru Yang, Tianjun Wang, Haipo Cui, Limin Sun

“…Generally, the electrocardiography (ECG) system plays an important role in preventing and diagnosing heart diseases. To further improve the amenity and convenience of using an ECG system, we built a customized capacitive electrocardiography (cECG) system with one wet electrode, sixteen non-contact electrodes, two ADS1299 chips, and one STM32F303-based microcontroller unit (MCU). …”
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The heart failure specialists of tomorrow: a network for young cardiovascular scientists and clinicians by Markus S. Anker, Claire Bouleti, Theodoros Christodoulides, Angela Durante, Edit Gara, Sara Hadzibegovic, Kalliopi Keramida, Alessia Lena, Angela Massouh, Ivan Milinkovic, Matthias P. Nägele, Alexander Nossikoff, Rui Plácido, Tamás Radovits, Heli Tolppanen, Giuseppe Vergaro, Markus Wallner, Sophie Welch, Yuri Lopatin, Mitja Lainscak, Alexandre Mebazaa, Andrew J.S. Coats, Petar M. Seferović, Ewa A. Jankowska, for the Heart Failure Association Committee on Heart Failure Specialists of Tomorrow of the European Society of Cardiology

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Variations in Postprandial Blood Glucose Responses and Satiety after Intake of Three Types of Bread by Marianne S. H. Lunde, Victoria T. Hjellset, Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen, Arne T. Høstmark

“…The magnitude and duration of postprandial blood glucose (PPG) elevations are important risk factors of diabetes and coronary heart diseases. Aim. To study PPG after ingestion of breads with and without pea fibre and rapeseed oil. …”
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Anomalous origin of a right pulmonary artery identified with echocardiography combined with CT: a case in a juvenile patient by Yan-ling Li, Ping Xie, Jia Wei, Zhao-xia Guo

“…This case provides a new insight for clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of complex congenital heart diseases.…”
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Impact of a Virtual Clinic in a Paediatric Cardiology Network on Northeast Brazil by Juliana Sousa Soares de Araújo, Adalberto Vieira Dias Filho, Renata Grigório Silva Gomes, Cláudio Teixeira Regis, Klecida Nunes Rodrigues, Nicoly Negreiros Siqueira, Fernanda Cruz de Lira Albuquerque, Felipe Alves Mourato, Sandra da Silva Mattos

“…Introduction. Congenital heart diseases (CHD) affect approximately 1% of live births and is an important cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. …”
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Brief Overview of a Decade of Genome-Wide Association Studies on Primary Hypertension by Afifah Binti Azam, Elena Aisha Binti Azizan

“…Large-scale GWASs, in which more than half a million of common SNPs are genotyped and analyzed for disease association in hundreds of thousands of cases and controls, have been broadly successful in identifying SNPs associated with heart diseases, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and psychiatric disorders. …”
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Health aspects of peanuts as an outcome of its chemical composition by Rabiatu Bonku, Jianmei Yu

“…Epidemiologic studies have associated nut consumption with a reduced incidence of cardiovascular heart diseases and gallstones in both genders and diabetes in women. …”
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Patients deceased in Cienfuegos city. Kind of patients, causes and place where they died. by María Gloria Fabregat Rodríguez

“…For all the studied causes the age group 65 years and more has the hihest mortality rates but particularizing for heart diseases the highest rate belongs to males from Cienfuegos municipality; for malignant tumors to Cumanayagua and Cienfuegos, for Cerebro Vascular Accidents the highest rates are for females from Cienfuegos municipality, influenza and pneumonia has the highest incidence in males from Aguada and suicide attempt in males from Aguada, Cruces and Cienfuegos respectively.…”
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Effectiveness of Palivizumab in Preventing RSV Hospitalization in High Risk Children: A Real-World Perspective by Nusrat Homaira, William Rawlinson, Thomas L. Snelling, Adam Jaffe

“…This review supports the recommended use of palivizumab for reducing RSV-associated hospitalization rates in premature infants born at gestational age < 33 weeks and in children with chronic lung and heart diseases. Data are limited to allow commenting on the protective effect of palivizumab among other high risk children, including those with Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, and haematological malignancy, indicating further research is warranted in these groups.…”
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Application of Handheld Tele-ECG for Health Care Delivery in Rural India by Meenu Singh, Amit Agarwal, Vineet Sinha, Rohit Manoj Kumar, Nishant Jaiswal, Ishita Jindal, Pankaj Pant, Munish Kumar

“…Thus, it can be safely concluded that tele-ECG is a portable, cost-effective, and convenient tool for diagnosis and monitoring of heart diseases and thus improves quality and accessibility, especially in rural areas.…”
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Heart Morphometry in Rats with Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Claudia Joffre Fríaz, Ninive Nuñez López, Laura López Marín, María Antonia Cruz, Laymit Alonso Padilla

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> these results led to an increased knowledge of the events involved in heart development in response to nutrient restriction in utero, which could contribute to the design of health strategies to reduce morbidity and perinatal mortality from heart diseases.…”
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Acute Kidney Injury in a Case Series of Patients with Confirmed COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019): Role of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 and Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade by Avantika Chenna, Venu Madhav Konala, Subhasish Bose, Sasmit Roy, Bhaskar Reddy Madhira, Vijay Gayam, Srikanth Naramala, Sreedhar Adapa

“…The renin-angiotensin system plays a very critical role in hypertension, diabetes, and kidney and heart diseases. The blockade of the renin-angiotensin system results in the prevention of progression of renal and cardiac damage. …”
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Triglyceride levels and its association with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular outcomes among patients with heart failure by Qing-Wen Ren, Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Wouter Ouwerkerk, Yi-Kei Tse, Christopher Tze Wei Tsang, Mei-Zhen Wu, Hung-Fat Tse, Adriaan A. Voors, Jasper Tromp, Carolyn S. P. Lam, Kai-Hang Yiu

“…Abstract Remnant cholesterol, identified by triglyceride-rich lipoprotein, is a significant causal risk factor for ischemic heart diseases. The association of triglyceride levels with all-cause and cause-specific outcomes in heart failure (HF) remains unexplored. …”
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Identification of novel genetic variants associated with feline cardiomyopathy using targeted next-generation sequencing by Jade Raffle, Jose Novo Matos, Marsha Wallace, Lois Wilkie, Richard J. Piercy, Perry Elliott, David J. Connolly, Virginia Luis Fuentes, Androniki Psifidi

“…Abstract Cardiomyopathies are the most common heritable heart diseases in cats and humans. This study aimed to identify novel genetic variants in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) using a targeted panel of genes associated with human cardiomyopathy. …”
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