Abstract The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) has conducted seminal research defining
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and fundamentally shaping public health …

Hemodynamic instability during hemodialysis is a common but often underestimated issue
in the nephrologist practice. Intradialytic hypotension, namely, a decrease of systolic or …

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related risk factors are associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD). This association is less well-defined in normal cognition (NC) or …

Objective Cardiac changes of hypertensive pregnancy include left ventricular hypertrophy
(LVH) and diastolic dysfunction. These are thought to regress postpartum. We hypothesised …

Background: Heart size is an important and effective parameter in chest X-ray (CXR)
interpretation. Studies indicate that, especially in middle-aged men, increased …

Background Adults with single ventricle physiology palliated with a Fontan circulation
experience high mortality due to circulatory failure. Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system …

ApoE−/− mice fed a high fat and high cholesterol (HFHC) diet (20% fat and 1.25%
cholesterol) from 12 weeks of age to 36 weeks revealed an age-dependent increase in the …

Aims Doppler-derived coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) of left anterior descending
(LAD) artery is an effective tool to predict overall mortality. The aim was to investigate the …

Hypertrophic growth of cardiomyocytes in response to pressure overload is an important
stage during the development of many cardiac diseases. Ca 2+ overload as well as …

Pregnancy induces cardiovascular adaptations in response to increased volume overload.
Aside from the hemodynamic changes that occur during pregnancy, the maternal heart also …