The Rise of Transradial Artery Access for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes in Australia by Ryan James Ocsan, Ata Doost, Paul Marley, Ahmad Farshid

“…The primary outcome was Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE), a composite of death, myocardial infarction (MI), target lesion revascularisation (TLR), or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) at 12 months. …”
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Association of Fatty Acid Synthase with Level of Fatty Acids in Osteoporosis Patients by Abeer Hassan Alwan, Ekhlass M. Taha

“…Osteoporotic fractures are more common in women than breast cancer, myocardial infarction, or stroke, and they also incur higher hospital treatment costs. …”
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Comparison of Ticagrelor and Clopidogrel in Elective Coronary Stenting: A Double Blind Randomized Clinical Trial by Mohammadjavad Mehdizadeh Parizi, Reza Golchin Vafa, Amin Ahmadi, Reza Heydarzade, Mehrdad Sadeghi, Amin Khademolhossseini, Farhang Amiri, Soroush Khoshnood Mansorkhani, Ali Tavan, Nazanin Hosseini, Mohammad Montaseri, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Javad Kojuri

“…., clopidogrel and ticagrelor) and aspirin is recommended for at least one year after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to prevent further myocardial infarction and stent thrombosis as the major adverse effects of PCI. …”
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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

“…Left ventricular hypertrophy (9.3%) was the commonest abnormality followed closely by old myocardial infarction (5.3%). Patient satisfaction was reported to be ~95%. …”
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Effect of sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) on the clinical outcomes of patients with diabetic atrial fibrillation by Selim Aydemir, Sidar Şiyar Aydın, Emrah Aksakal, Onur Altınkaya, Murat Özmen, Oğuzhan Birdal

“…The endpoints of the study were defined as all-cause death, the development of myocardial infarction (MI), major bleeding requiring hospitalization, and an ischemic cerebrovascular event (CVE). …”
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Clinical and Prognostic Significance of Idiopathic Left Bundle-Branch Block in Young Adults by Pietro Delise, Luigi Rivetti, Giuseppe Poletti, Monica Centa, Giuseppe Allocca, Nadir Sitta, Arianna Cati, Giovanni Turiano, Emanuela Lanari, Paolo Zeppilli, Luigi Sciarra

“…All patients had a normal echocardiogram, except for left ventricular dyssynchrony; 37 patients underwent coronary angiography (30) or myocardial scintigraphy during effort Eriksson and Wilhelmsen (2005), and in all cases obstructive coronary artery disease was excluded. …”
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Development and validation of a risk prediction model for acute kidney injury in coronary artery disease by Ming Ye, Chang Liu, Duo Yang, Hai Gao

“…Key predictors included surgical department admission, eGFR, hemoglobin, chronic kidney disease history, male sex, white blood cell count, age, left ventricular ejection fraction, acute myocardial infarction at admission, and congestive heart failure history. …”
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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease as a Potential Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study by Mohammad Dehghani Firouzabadi, Amirhossein Poopak, Ali Sheikhy, Fatemeh Dehghani Firouzabadi, Fatemeh Moosaie, Soghra Rabizadeh, Sara Momtazmanesh, Manouchehr Nakhjavani, Alireza Esteghamati

“…Cox regression analysis was used to assess the association between NAFLD, liver enzyme level, aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI), and the incidence risk of CVD and its subgroups (i.e., myocardial infarction, chronic heart disease, coronary artery bypass grafting, and percutaneous coronary intervention). …”
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Acute Angiographic and Intermediate-Term Clinical Results of Patients with Non-Left Main Coronary Bifurcation Lesions Treated with BVS by Jailed Semi-Inflated Balloon Technique and... by Chieh-Shou Su, Keng-Hao Chang, Chih-Hung Lai, Yu-Wei Chen, Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Hung-Chih Pan, Tsun-Jui Liu, Wen-Lieng Lee

“…The intermediate-term clinical outcomes were good in terms of incidence of target lesion failure, target lesion revascularization, target vessel revascularization, myocardial infarction, and all-cause death in both groups. …”
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Enhancing cardiac diagnostics: a deep learning ensemble approach for precise ECG image classification by Ahmed Alsayat, Alshimaa Abdelraof Mahmoud, Saad Alanazi, Ayman Mohamed Mostafa, Nasser Alshammari, Majed Abdullah Alrowaily, Hosameldeen Shabana, Mohamed Ezz

“…These models were assessed using a cross-validation scheme, focusing on balanced accuracy, precision, recall, and the F1-score to evaluate their classification capabilities across four cardiac conditions: Myocardial Infarction (MI), abnormal heartbeat, historical MI, and normal ECG patterns. …”
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Update on the Role of Cannabinoid Receptors after Ischemic Stroke by Luciano S. A. Capettini, Silvia Q. Savergnini, Rafaela F. da Silva, Nikos Stergiopulos, Robson A. S. Santos, François Mach, Fabrizio Montecucco

“…In particular, they have been shown to reduce the ischemic injury after acute cardiovascular events, such as acute myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. These protective and anti-inflammatory properties on peripheral tissues and circulating inflammatory have been demonstrated to involve their binding with both selective cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) and type 2 (CB2) transmembrane receptors. …”
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Similarities and Differences between Coronavirus Disease 2019-related Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and Kawasaki Disease in Indian Patients by Utkarsh Singh, Suhas Prabhu, Deepak Phalgune

“…Evidence of shock, the use of inotropes, and the need for respiratory support were significantly higher in the MIS-C group than in the KDG. Myocardial dysfunction and pericardial effusion/regurgitation were also more prevalent in the MIS-C group, whereas coronary dilatation/aneurysm was significantly lower compared to the KDG. …”
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Unhealthy alcohol use and risk of coronary heart disease among young and middle-aged adults by Jamal S. Rana, Felicia W. Chi, Isaac Acquah, Stacy A. Sterling

“…Main outcome was CHD during 4-year follow-up, based on inpatient ICD diagnoses of myocardial infarction and CHD. Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, body mass index, physical activity, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. …”
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Cardiac Autonomic Control Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Chagas' Heart Disease by Diego F. Dávila, Jose H. Donis, Gabriela Arata de Bellabarba, Vanesa Villarroel, Francisco Sanchez, Lisbeth Berrueta, Siham Salmen, Barbara Das Neves

“…Primary abnormalities of the autonomic nervous system had been postulated as the pathogenic mechanisms of myocardial damage, in patients with Chagas disease. …”
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Effect of preoperative right ventricular dysfunction and dilatation on survival after left ventricular surgical restoration by Abdelhameed Elsayed, Murtadha H. Alawami, Ismail M. Elnaggar, Tamer N. Mohamed, Musab Kiddo, Mostafa A. Shalaby, Khaled A. Alotaibi, Amr A. Arafat

“…Results The results indicated that hospital mortality was significantly associated with older age [OR, 1.10; P = 0.01], higher EuroSCORE II [OR, 1.08, P = 0.03], recent myocardial infarction [OR, 4.24, P = 0.02], lower creatinine clearance [OR, 0.97, P = 0.02], and left ventricle longitudinal [OR, 0.95, P < 0.01] and transverse diameter [OR, 0.95; P < 0.01]. …”
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Examining anti-inflammatory therapies in the prevention of cardiovascular events: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials by George A Wells, Kevin Emery Boczar, Sheojung Shin, Kathryn A Bezzina, Aishwarya Geejo, Alexander Liam Pearson, Saba Shahab, Christophe A Fehlmann, Sarah Visintini, Rob Beanlands

“…The primary outcomes will include major adverse cardiac events (MACE), and each individual component of MACE (myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular death). …”
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The Impact of Smoking on Clinical Outcomes after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Women Compared to Men by Seyyed Saeed Mohammadi, Mohammad Javad Zibaeenezhad, Mehrab Sayadi, Soorena Khorshidi, Ehsan Hadiyan, Iman Razeghian-Jahromi

“…Participants were followed up seeking for major adverse cardiac events (MACE) including revascularization (PCI or coronary artery bypass grafting), myocardial infarction, and coronary death in three time intervals according to the time of index PCI (short term: up to 24 hours, mid-term: 24 hours to less than 6 months, and long term: more than 6 months). …”
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Diabetes Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Patients Receiving Permanent Pacemaker: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study by Huang-Chung Chen, Wen-Hao Liu, Chien-Hao Tseng, Yung-Lung Chen, Wei-Chieh Lee, Yen-Nan Fang, Shaur-Zheng Chong, Mien-Cheng Chen

“…The primary outcome was cardiovascular events including heart failure (HF) hospitalization and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The secondary outcomes of this study included pacemaker infection, pacing-induced cardiomyopathy, cerebrovascular accident, cardiovascular mortality, and all-cause mortality. …”
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Microvascular disease and heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction in type 2 diabetes by Ify R. Mordi, Aaron Tee, Colin N. Palmer, Rory J. McCrimmon, Alexander S.F. Doney, Chim C. Lang

“…Abstract Aims Identification of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) at increased risk of incident heart failure (HF) beyond traditional risk factors such as prior myocardial infarction (MI) might allow selection of patients who would benefit from preventative treatment. …”
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The efficacy and safety of indobufen in patients with ischemic cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases: systematic review and meta-analysis by Xiaolu Luo, Chenglu Lai, Tielong Chen

“…However, the effects of both treatments on efficacy outcomes, including MACE, myocardial infarction, angina, mortality, and thrombotic events, were similar. …”
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