Status of cardiovascular disease and stroke in Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: a science advisory from the American Heart Association

CJ Rodriguez, M Allison, ML Daviglus, CR Isasi… - Circulation, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—This American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement
provides a comprehensive overview of current evidence on the burden cardiovascular …

[HTML][HTML] Spliced X-box binding protein 1 couples the unfolded protein response to hexosamine biosynthetic pathway

ZV Wang, Y Deng, N Gao, Z Pedrozo, DL Li… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) generates uridine diphosphate N-
acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) for glycan synthesis and O-linked GlcNAc (O-GlcNAc) …

PET imaging of inflammation in atherosclerosis

JM Tarkin, FR Joshi, JHF Rudd - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2014 - nature.com
PET imaging of atherosclerosis can quantify several in vivo pathological processes
occurring within the arterial system. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is the most-commonly …

Accessibility and use of urban green spaces, and cardiovascular health: findings from a Kaunas cohort study

A Tamosiunas, R Grazuleviciene, D Luksiene… - Environmental …, 2014 - Springer
Background The aims of this study were to explore associations of the distance and use of
urban green spaces with the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and its risk …

Comparison of application of the ACC/AHA guidelines, Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines, and European Society of Cardiology guidelines for cardiovascular …

M Kavousi, MJG Leening, D Nanchen, P Greenland… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association
(ACC/AHA) guidelines introduced a prediction model and lowered the threshold for …

Diabetes and cardiovascular disease in older adults: current status and future directions

JB Halter, N Musi, F McFarland Horne, JP Crandall… - Diabetes, 2014 - Am Diabetes Assoc
The prevalence of diabetes increases with age, driven in part by an absolute increase in
incidence among adults aged 65 years and older. Individuals with diabetes are at higher risk …

Long-chain omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid and blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

PE Miller, M Van Elswyk… - American journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Although a large body of literature has been devoted to examining the
relationship between eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids (EPA+ DHA) and blood …

[HTML][HTML] Management of chronic heart failure in the older population

N Azad, G Lemay - Journal of geriatric cardiology: JGC, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is the leading cause of hospitalization for those over the age of
65 and represents a significant clinical and economic burden. About half of hospital re …

Pre-clinical diastolic dysfunction

SH Wan, MW Vogel, HH Chen - Journal of the American College of …, 2014 - jacc.org
Pre-clinical diastolic dysfunction (PDD) has been broadly defined as left ventricular diastolic
dysfunction without the diagnosis of congestive heart failure (HF) and with normal systolic …

Exercise‐based rehabilitation for heart failure

RS Taylor, VA Sagar, EJ Davies… - Cochrane database …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Previous systematic reviews and meta‐analyses consistently show the positive
effect of exercise‐based rehabilitation for heart failure (HF) on exercise capacity; however …