Longitudinal blood pressure control, long-term mortality, and predictive utility of serum liver enzymes and bilirubin in hypertensive patients

L McCallum, J Panniyammakal, CE Hastie, J Hewitt… - …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
There is accruing evidence from general population studies that serum bilirubin and liver
enzymes affect blood pressure (BP) and cardiovascular risk, but it is unclear whether these …

Prevalence and risk of cardiovascular risk factors and events in offspring of patients at high vascular risk and effect of location of parental vascular disease

M Weijmans, Y Van Der Graaf, GJ De Borst… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Offspring of patients with cardiovascular disease are at increased risk of
developing cardiovascular events. We evaluated whether prevalence of risk factors in …

Predictors as well as surrogate and hard endpoints in cardiovascular disease

TF Lüscher - European heart journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
'Background Ca2+ entry pathway mediated by TRPC1/TRPC4 is critical for development of
pathological cardiac remodelling', 22 Marc Freichel and colleagues from the University …

[HTML][HTML] Do parental coronary heart disease risk factors (non-modifiable) effect their young ones?

A Kumar - Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective: To study the differences between the lipid profiles of the subjects whose parents
are having known non-modifiable risk factors such as obesity, hypertension (HTN) …

Parental history of cardiovascular disease and risk of ESRD in women

H Xu, A Wolk, JJ Carrero - American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2015 - ajkd.org
We thank both letter writers 1, 2 for their cogent words. Couser and Johnson 1 cite their tour
de force review of the potential and established molecular mechanisms that link infection to …

Tools for cardiovascular risk assessment in clinical practice

M Cainzos-Achirica, K Eissler, MJ Blaha… - Current Cardiovascular …, 2015 - Springer
Precise risk stratification of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease guides best management
and therefore is a public health priority. In addition to risk estimation using traditional risk …