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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Ausgabe 1/2007

Inhalt (40 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

The effects of second-hand smoke on biological processes important in atherogenesis

Hongwei Yuan, Lina S Wong, Monideepa Bhattacharya, Chongze Ma, Mohammed Zafarani, Min Yao, Matthias Schneider, Robert E Pitas, Manuela Martins-Green

Open Access Research article

The association of the ankle-brachial index with incident coronary heart disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) study, 1987–2001

Beth D Weatherley, Jeanenne J Nelson, Gerardo Heiss, Lloyd E Chambless, A Richey Sharrett, F Javier Nieto, Aaron R Folsom, Wayne D Rosamond

Open Access Research article

A long-term "memory" of HIF induction in response to chronic mild decreased oxygen after oxygen normalization

Chandrashekhar D Kamat, Jessica E Thorpe, Satyendra S Shenoy, Antonio Ceriello, Dixy E Green, Linda A Warnke, Michael A Ihnat

Open Access Research article

Mild hypothermia reduces cardiac post-ischemic reactive hyperemia

Goran K Olivecrona, Matthias Götberg, Jan Harnek, Jesper Van der Pals, David Erlinge

Open Access Research article

Sry delivery to the adrenal medulla increases blood pressure and adrenal medullary tyrosine hydroxylase of normotensive WKY rats

Daniel Ely, Amy Milsted, Jason Bertram, Mat Ciotti, Gail Dunphy, Monte E Turner

Open Access Research article

Are patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction undertreated?

Saman Rasoul, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Jan-Henk E Dambrink, Menko-Jan de Boer, Jan CA Hoorntje, AT Marcel Gosselink, Felix Zijlstra, Harry Suryapranata, Arnoud WJ van't Hof

Open Access Study protocol

Home-based exercise rehabilitation in addition to specialist heart failure nurse care: design, rationale and recruitment to the Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation study for patients with congestive heart failure (BRUM-CHF): a randomised controlled trial

Kate Jolly, Rod S Tayor, Gregory YH Lip, Sheila M Greenfield, Michael K Davies, Russell C Davis, Jonathan W Mant, Sally J Singh, Jackie T Ingram, Jane Stubley, Andrew J Stevens

Open Access Research article

The incidence of myocardial injury following post-operative Goal Directed Therapy

Rupert M Pearse, Deborah Dawson, Jayne Fawcett, Andrew Rhodes, R Michael Grounds, David Bennett

Open Access Research article

Flow mediated dilation of the brachial artery: an investigation of methods requiring further standardization

Alon Peretz, Daniel F Leotta, Jeffrey H Sullivan, Carol A Trenga, Fiona N Sands, Mary R Aulet, Marla Paun, Edward A Gill, Joel D Kaufman

Open Access Research article

Utility of routine exercise treadmill testing early after percutaneous coronary intervention

Mohan N Babapulle, Jean G Diodati, James C Blankenship, Thao Huynh, Sabrina Cugno, Radha Puri, Phuong A Nguyen, Mark J Eisenberg

Open Access Technical advance

A cell culture model using rat coronary artery adventitial fibroblasts to measure collagen production

Cathleen Jenkins, Amy Milsted, Kathleen Doane, Gary Meszaros, Jonathan Toot, Daniel Ely

Open Access Study protocol

Does the aldosterone: renin ratio predict the efficacy of spironolactone over bendroflumethiazide in hypertension? A clinical trial protocol for RENALDO (RENin-ALDOsterone) study

Hari K Parthasarathy, Khamis Alhashmi, Alex D McMahon, Allan D Struthers, John MC Connell, Gordon T McInnes, Ian Ford, Thomas M MacDonald

Open Access Research article

Sirolimus inhibits key events of restenosis in vitro/ex vivo: evaluation of the clinical relevance of the data by SI/MPL- and SI/DES-ratio's

Rainer Voisard, Svenja Zellmann, Fabian Müller, Felicitas Fahlisch, Lutz von Müller, Regine Baur, Jürgen Braun, Jürgen Gschwendt, Margaratis Kountides, Vinzenz Hombach, Joachim Kamenz

Open Access Research article

Cardiac asthma in elderly patients: incidence, clinical presentation and outcome

Stéphane Jorge, Marie-Hélène Becquemin, Samuel Delerme, Mohamed Bennaceur, Richard Isnard, Rony Achkar, Bruno Riou, Jacques Boddaert, Patrick Ray

Open Access Research article

Increasing number of components of the metabolic syndrome and cardiac structural and functional abnormalities – cross-sectional study of the general population

Ana Azevedo, Paulo Bettencourt, Pedro B Almeida, Ana C Santos, Cassiano Abreu-Lima, Hans-Werner Hense, Henrique Barros

Open Access Research article

The effect of electrical neurostimulation on collateral perfusion during acute coronary occlusion

Jessica de Vries, Rutger L Anthonio, Mike JL DeJongste, Gillian A Jessurun, Eng-Shiong Tan, Bart JGL de Smet, Ad FM van den Heuvel, Michiel J Staal, Felix Zijlstra

Open Access Research article

Measurement of coronary calcium scores or exercise testing as initial screening tool in asymptomatic subjects with ST-T changes on the resting ECG: an evaluation study

Christiane A Geluk, Riksta Dikkers, Jan A Kors, René A Tio, Riemer HJA Slart, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Hans L Hillege, Tineke P Willems, Paul E de Jong, Wiek H van Gilst, Matthijs Oudkerk, Felix Zijlstra

Open Access Research article

Usual choline and betaine dietary intake and incident coronary heart disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

Aurelian Bidulescu, Lloyd E Chambless, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Steven H Zeisel, Gerardo Heiss

Open Access Study protocol

Effectiveness of compression stockings to prevent the post-thrombotic syndrome (The SOX Trial and Bio-SOX biomarker substudy): a randomized controlled trial

Susan R Kahn, Hadia Shbaklo, Stan Shapiro, Philip S Wells, Michael J Kovacs, Marc A Rodger, David R Anderson, Jeffrey S Ginsberg, Mira Johri, Vicky Tagalakis

Open Access Research article

Age-related changes in P wave morphology in healthy subjects

Rasmus Havmoller, Jonas Carlson, Fredrik Holmqvist, Alberto Herreros, Carl J Meurling, Bertil Olsson, Pyotr Platonov

Open Access Research article

Evaluation of B-type Natriuretic Peptide for validation of a heart failure register in primary care

Gurbir S Bhatia, Michael D Sosin, Jane Stubley, Jeetesh V Patel, Elizabeth A Hughes, Rebecca Gibbs, Russell C Davis

Open Access Research article

Do women spend longer on wait lists for coronary bypass surgery? Analysis of a population-based registry in British Columbia, Canada

Adrian R Levy, Boris G Sobolev, Lisa Kuramoto, Robert Hayden, Stuart M MacLeod

Open Access Study protocol

Rationale, design and conduct of a randomised controlled trial evaluating a primary care-based complex intervention to improve the quality of life of heart failure patients: HICMan (Heidelberg Integrated Case Management)

Frank Peters-Klimm, Thomas Müller-Tasch, Dieter Schellberg, Jochen Gensichen, Christiane Muth, Wolfgang Herzog, Joachim Szecsenyi

Open Access Study protocol

Activity and Life After Survival of a Cardiac Arrest (ALASCA) and the effectiveness of an early intervention service: design of a randomised controlled trial

Véronique RMP Moulaert, Jeanine A Verbunt, Caroline M van Heugten, Wilbert GM Bakx, Anton PM Gorgels, Sebastiaan CAM Bekkers, Marc CFTM de Krom, Derick T Wade

Open Access Research article

One-year health status outcomes of unstable angina versus myocardial infarction: a prospective, observational cohort study of ACS survivors

Thomas M Maddox, Kimberly J Reid, John S Rumsfeld, John A Spertus

Open Access Research article

Signal-averaged P wave analysis for delineation of interatrial conduction – Further validation of the method

Fredrik Holmqvist, Pyotr G Platonov, Rasmus Havmöller, Jonas Carlson

Open Access Research article

Association of sICAM-1 and MCP-1 with coronary artery calcification in families enriched for coronary heart disease or hypertension: the NHLBI Family Heart Study

Weihong Tang, James S Pankow, J Jeffrey Carr, Russell P Tracy, Suzette J Bielinski, Kari E North, Paul N Hopkins, Aldi T Kraja, Donna K Arnett

Open Access Research article

Aminotransferases are associated with insulin resistance and atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis

Patrick H Dessein, Angela J Woodiwiss, Barry I Joffe, Gavin R Norton

Open Access Research article

Prevalence of coronary artery disease risk factors in Iran: a population based survey

ZN Hatmi, S Tahvildari, A Gafarzadeh Motlag, A Sabouri Kashani

Open Access Research article

The impact of severity of hypertension on association of PGC-1αGene with blood pressure and risk of hypertension

Gaoqiang Xie, Dongshuang Guo, Ying Li, Shengying Liang, Yangfeng Wu

Open Access Research article

Are coronary event rates declining slower in women than in men – evidence from two population-based myocardial infarction registers in Finland?

Hanna-Riikka Lehto, Seppo Lehto, Aki S Havulinna, Matti Ketonen, Aapo Lehtonen, Y Antero Kesäniemi, Juhani Airaksinen, Veikko Salomaa

Open Access Research article

Outcomes of patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure: does nesiritide make a difference?

Richard J Carroll, Zuber D Mulla, Loran D Hauck, Audrey Westbrook

Open Access Research article

Lifestyle variables and the risk of myocardial infarction in the General Practice Research Database

Joseph AC Delaney, Stella S Daskalopoulou, James M Brophy, Russell J Steele, Lucie Opatrny, Samy Suissa

Open Access Research article

Detection of non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction and unstable angina in the acute setting: meta-analysis of diagnostic performance of multi-detector computed tomographic angiography

Piet K Vanhoenacker, Isabel Decramer, Olivier Bladt, Giovanna Sarno, Charlotte Bevernage, William Wijns

Open Access Research article

Boussignac continuous positive airway pressure for the management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema: prospective study with a retrospective control group

Willem Dieperink, Tiny Jaarsma, Iwan CC van der Horst, Wybe Nieuwland, Karin M Vermeulen, Hanka Rosman, Leon PHJ Aarts, Felix Zijlstra, Maarten WN Nijsten

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