The number of people living with advanced heart disease is increasing rapidly as a result of
improvements in cardiac treatments, better long-term survival from primary cardiac events …

OBJECTIVE: To identify the health beliefs, attitudes, practices, and social and family
relations important in heart failure treatment among Pacific Islanders. METHODS: Four focus …

Background Psychological distress is common in patients with cardiovascular disease and
negatively impacts outcome. Hypothesis Psychological distress is high in acute high risk …

Heart failure (HF) is a chronic, progressive cardiovascular disease punctuated by
hospitalizations and associated with high morbidity, mortality, and economic costs. In US …

Aims Some, but not all, studies have shown that patient‐reported health status, including
symptoms, functioning, and health‐related quality of life, provides additional information to …

Purpose: To compare 2 mild-to-moderate group exercises and treatment as usual (TAU) for
improvements in physical function and depressive symptoms. Methods: Patients with heart …

Background: Heart failure (HF) is a major health problem in the United States, affecting 5.7
million American adults. Psychosocial distress, in particular depression, contributes to …

Background Depression commonly occurs in heart failure patients, and negatively
influences quality of life and disease prognosis. This study explored heart failure and …

Introduction: The aim of this article is to investigate the determinants of sleeping patterns in
children up to age 9 on a large and geographically homogeneous sample of British children …

Objective: Depression occurs in 18% to 45% of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD)
where it is associated with an increased risk of acute coronary events and mortality. Our …