Publications by authors named "Andreas Egger"

This manuscript introduces a multimedia business process dataset provided by a German research institute. The dataset was systematically collected in a laboratory environment that reflects the workspace of IT staff managing IT Asset Management (ITAM) processes. It encompasses data from 121 process instances across six basic processes, captured using 37 video recordings from two camera perspectives, motion tracking, environmental sensors, an ITAM system trace, and event log data from user interactions.

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Background: Shared decision making (SDM) between healthcare professionals and persons with CVD can have a positive impact on motivation, adherence, or sustainability regarding long-term goals and integration of cardiovascular disease (CVD) rehabilitation in the everyday lives of persons with CVD. SDM can foster the transition between regular heart-healthy activity at rehabilitation facilities and more independent activity at home, but it is often challenging to implement SDM given limited time and resources, e.g.

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Objective: To determine if supervised training, after the completion of cardiac rehabilitation program, performed for a further two years would help maintain beneficial effects achieved during prolonged outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.

Design: Longitudinal parallel-grouped intervention study.

Subjects: Patients with coronary artery disease (  =  41, age 59.

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Objective: To assess the impact of the closure of group-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) training during the first COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020 on patients' physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and cardiovascular risk, and to describe the patient experience of lockdown and home-based exercise training during lockdown.

Design: Mixed methods study. Prospectively collected post-lockdown measurements were compared to pre-lockdown medical record data.

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Background: This study aimed to assess the effect of different types of endurance training during outpatient cardiac rehabilitation on patients' health-related quality of life (HRQL).

Methods: The MacNew Heart Disease HRQL questionnaire and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were used to assess changes in HRQL in 66 patients before and after 6 weeks of cardiac rehabilitation. Patients were randomized to 1 of 3 types of supervised endurance training: continuous endurance training, high-intensity interval training, and pyramid training.

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Objectives: Human glutaminyl cyclases (QC and isoQC) play an important role in maintaining inflammatory conditions. Meanwhile a glutaminyl cyclase synthesized by Porphyromonas gingivalis (PgQC), a key pathogen in developing periodontitis and a potential link of periodontitis with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), was discovered. This study was aimed to determine the expression of QC, isoQC and PgQC in patients with chronic periodontitis (CP) and RA.

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Background: Physical exercise training is an evidence-based treatment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and patients' peak work rate is associated with reduced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality. We assessed whether supplemental oxygen during exercise training in nonhypoxemic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease might lead to superior training outcomes, including improved peak work rate.

Methods: This was a randomized, double-blind, controlled, crossover trial.

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Background: High-intensity interval training has recently emerged as superior to continuous endurance training in cardiac rehabilitation upon other training regimes. Individually tailored continuous endurance training and pyramid training could induce comparable effects on peak work capacity as high intensity interval training.

Design: A prospective, randomized study.

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Background: It remains controversial, whether spectators of soccer matches are exposed to an increased risk of cardiac events. In 2006, the Soccer World Cup (SWC) took place in Germany and provided an excellent opportunity to assess the effects of emotional stress on cardiac events in a large cohort of soccer enthusiasts in the region of Bavaria.

Methods: We analyzed data from the Bavarian Council for Statistics and Data Management for the period of SWC (June 9-July 9, 2006) and reference periods (SWCRef; May 1-July 31, 2005; May 1-June 8, 2006 and July 10-31, 2006) for the following diagnoses: myocardial infarction; myocardial re-infarction; cardiac arrest; paroxysmal tachycardia; atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter; all remaining tachyarrhythmias.

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Background: Resistance training has become a mainstay of exercise training in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, it remains controversial whether hypertrophy resistance training (HRT) is superior to endurance resistance training (ERT) with regard to its effects on glycaemic control, muscle mass and strength.

Methods: Thirty-two patients with T2DM (13 men and 19 women; 64.

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The syntheses, structural characterization, and magnetic behaviour of three new 3D manganese(II) complexes with the empirical formulae [Mn(N3)2(5-Brpym)]n (1), [Mn(N3)2(Mepyz)]n (2) and [Mn(N3)2(2-acpy)]n (3), (5-Brpym=5-bromopyrimidine, Mepyz=methylpyrazine, 2-acpy=2-acetylpyridine), are reported. In 1, each manganese atom is linked to the four nearest neighbours by only end-to-end azido bridges, forming square layers. These layers are further connected to 3D networks by the N,N'-bridging ligand.

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The syntheses, structural characterization, and magnetic behavior of five new 2D manganese(II) complexes with empirical formulas [Mn(N(3))(2)(2,6-DiMepyz)(H(2)O)](n)() (1), [Mn(N(3))(2)(Etpyz)(H(2)O)](n)() (2), [Mn(N(3))(2)(H(2)O)(2)](n)()(2,3-DiMepyz)(n)() (3), [Mn(N(3))(2)(Clpyz)(2)](n)() (4), and [Mn(N(3))(2)(Ipyz)(2)](n)() (5) (pyz = pyrazine (1,4-diazine)) are reported. 1 crystallizes in the monoclinic system, space group P2(1)/c, with unit cell parameters a = 7.513(4) A, b = 17.

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