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A systematic review of adherence to diabetes self-care behaviours: Evidence from low- and middle-income countries.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING - 01 Dec 2019
To determine diabetes patient's adherence to five self-care behaviours (diet, exercise; medication, self-monitoring of blood glucose [SMBG] and foot care) in low- and middle-income countries.Systematic review.We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, PUBMED, SCOPUS, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Cochrane library and EMCARE for the period January 1990 - June 2017.Title, abstract and full text screening were done accordi...
Association Between Occupational, Sport, and Leisure Related Physical Activity and Baroreflex Sensitivity: The Paris Prospective Study III.
HYPERTENSION (DALLAS, TEX. : 1979) - 01 Dec 2019
Physical activity (PA) is a preventative behavior for noncommunicable disease. However, little consideration is given as to whether different domains of PA have differing associations with health outcomes. We sought to determine the association between occupational, sport, leisure, and total PA with baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), distinguishing between neural (nBRS) and mechanical (mBRS) BRS. In...
Guidelines for Transparency on Gut Microbiome Studies in Essential and Experimental Hypertension.
HYPERTENSION (DALLAS, TEX. : 1979) - 01 Dec 2019
Hypertension is a complex and modifiable condition in which environmental factors contribute to both onset and progression. Recent evidence has accumulated for roles of diet and the gut microbiome as environmental factors in blood pressure regulation. However, this is complex because gut microbiomes are a unique feature of each individual reflecting that individual's developmental and environme...
Pseudopheochromocytoma.
ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA - 01 Dec 2019
Pseudopheochromocytoma manifests as severe, symptomatic paroxysmal hypertension without significant elevation in catecholamine and metanephrine levels and lack of evidence of tumor in the adrenal gland. The clinical manifestations are similar but not identical to those in excess circulating catecholamines. The underlying symptomatic mechanism includes augmented cardiovascular responsiveness to ...
Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017.
NATURE - 01 Oct 2019
Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable child deaths by 2030-we need consistently estimated data at the subnational level regarding child mortality rates and trends. Here we quantified, for the period 2000-2017, t...
Hyper transmission of Beijing lineage Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
THE JOURNAL OF INFECTION - 01 Dec 2019
The globally distributed "Beijing" lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been associated with outbreaks worldwide. Laboratory based studies have suggested that Beijing lineage may have increased fitness; however, it has not been established whether these differences are of epidemiological significance with regards to transmission. Therefore, we undertook a systematic review of epidemiologic...
Iron Deficiency in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE - 01 Oct 2019
The aim of this study was to characterize iron deficiency (ID) in acutely decompensated heart failure (ADHF) and identify whether ID is associated with dyspnea class, length of stay (LOS), biomarker levels, and echocardiographic indices of diastolic function in patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Consecutive patients admitted with ADHF a...
Left Atrial Mechanical Dispersion Assessed by Strain Echocardiography as an Independent Predictor of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation: A Case-Control Study.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY : OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY - 01 Oct 2019
Left atrial (LA) enlargement is associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), but new-onset AF often occurs in the absence of LA enlargement. AF may be related to myocardial fibrosis, and even though left ventricular fibrosis is associated with mechanical dispersion, this phenomenon is not well studied in AF. We hypothesized that detection of LA dysfunction and mechanical dispersion using strain ec...
Echocardiographic Risk Assessment to Guide Screening for Atrial Fibrillation.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY : OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY - 01 Oct 2019
Although atrial fibrillation (AF) is a significant population health burden, and an avoidable cause of stroke, AF screening remains controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate whether coincidental echocardiography could provide information about patients at risk for AF.Asymptomatic participants ≥65 years of age with more than one AF risk factor (N = 445) undergoing echocardiography ...
Impact of sex, socio-economic status, and remoteness on therapy and survival in heart failure.
ESC HEART FAILURE - 01 Oct 2019
This study aims to determine if traditional markers of disadvantage [female sex, low socio-economic status (SES), and remoteness] are associated with lower prescription of evidence-based therapy and higher mortality among patients with moderate-severe heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.We recruited 452 consecutive class II-III heart failure with reduced ejection fraction patients. Bas...
Exposure to Bisphenol A and Bisphenol S and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Case-Cohort Study in the French Cohort D.E.S.I.R.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES - 01 Oct 2019
The question of whether exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) contributes to the development of type 2 diabetes is still unresolved. Most epidemiological evidence on the association between BPA and diabetes is from cross-sectional studies or longitudinal studies with single urinary measurements. No prospective study has examined exposure to BPA analogs such as bisphenol S (BPS) in relation to incident ...
Circulating MIF Levels Predict Clinical Outcomes in Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY - 01 Oct 2019
The purpose of the study was to assess the value of admission macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) levels in predicting clinical outcomes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients.For this study we recruited 498 STEMI patients after they received percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), 40 with stable angina pectoris and 137 healthy participants. Plasma MIF levels were mea...
Right ventricular strain rate during exercise accurately identifies male athletes with right ventricular arrhythmias.
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING - 01 Mar 2020
Athletes with right ventricular (RV) arrhythmias, even in the absence of desmosomal mutations, may have subtle RV abnormalities which can be unmasked by deformation imaging. As exercise places a disproportionate stress on the right ventricle, evaluation of cardiac function and deformation during exercise might improve diagnostic performance.We performed bicycle stress echocardiography in 17 app...
Use of echocardiography to stratify the risk of atrial fibrillation: comparison of left atrial and ventricular strain.
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING - 01 Apr 2020
Although both left atrial (LA) and ventricular (LV) dysfunction has been accepted as an important risk factor of atrial fibrillation (AF), usefulness of LA and LV strain has not been fully compared for prediction of AF. The aims of this study were to clarify the associations of both LA and LV strain with AF and to compare their predictive values in the risk stratification for AF.We evaluated 53...
Birth outcomes in women with gestational diabetes managed by lifestyle modification alone: The PANDORA study.
DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE - 03 Oct 2019
To assess outcomes of women in the Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) cohort with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) managed by lifestyle modification compared with women without hyperglycaemia in pregnancy.Indigenous (n = 97) and Europid (n = 113) women managed by lifestyle modification were compared to women without hyperglycaemia (n = 235). Multivariate l...
Neighbourhood environments and risk of incident atrial fibrillation: limitations and future directions.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY - 01 Sep 2020
Circulating metabolites and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a prospective study of 11,896 young adults from four Finnish cohorts.
DIABETOLOGIA - 01 Dec 2019
Metabolomics technologies have identified numerous blood biomarkers for type 2 diabetes risk in case-control studies of middle-aged and older individuals. We aimed to validate existing and identify novel metabolic biomarkers predictive of future diabetes in large cohorts of young adults.NMR metabolomics was used to quantify 229 circulating metabolic measures in 11,896 individuals from four Finn...
Progressive Hypertension and Severe Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction.
HYPERTENSION (DALLAS, TEX. : 1979) - 01 Dec 2019
Chronic Kidney Disease and Coronary Artery Disease: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY - 08 Oct 2019
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD). As well as their high prevalence of traditional CAD risk factors, such as diabetes and hypertension, persons with CKD are also exposed to other nontraditional, uremia-related cardiovascular disease risk factors, including inflammation, oxidative stress, and abnormal calcium-phosphorus metabolism. CKD and end-...
Management of frailty: opportunities, challenges, and future directions.
LANCET (LONDON, ENGLAND) - 12 Oct 2019
Frailty is a complex age-related clinical condition characterised by a decline in physiological capacity across several organ systems, with a resultant increased susceptibility to stressors. Because of the heterogeneity of frailty in clinical presentation, it is important to have effective strategies for the delivery of care that range across the continuum of frailty severity. In clinical pract...
