Putting the exposome into practice: An analysis of the promises, methods and outcomes of the European human exposome network.

Objectives: Contemporary research on the exposome, i.e. the sum of all the exposures an individual encounters throughout life and that may influence human health, bears the promise of an integrative and policy-relevant research on the effect of environment on health.

Prevalence and risk factors of cardiac thrombus prior to ventricular tachycardia catheter ablation in structural heart disease.

Aims: Assess prevalence, risk factors, and management of patients with intra-cardiac thrombus referred for scar-related ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation.

Methods And Results: Consecutive VT ablation referrals between January 2015 and December 2019 were reviewed (n = 618). Patients referred for de novo, scar-related VT ablation who underwent pre-procedure cardiac computed tomography (cCT) were included.

Progressive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapies for ventricular tachycardia: The efficacy and safety of multiple bursts, ramps, and low-energy shocks.

Background: The Heart Rhythm Society, the European Heart Rhythm Association, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on optimal implantable cardioverter-defibrillator programming recommends burst antitachycardia pacing (ATP) for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia (VT) up to high rates. The number of bursts is not specified, and treatment by ramps or low-energy shocks is not recommended.

Objectives: We investigated the efficacy and safety of progressive therapies for VTs between 150 and 200 beats/min.

Dietary intake and nutritional risk among free-living elderly people in Palma de Mallorca.

Objective: To describe the dietary intake of free-living, non-institutionalised, elderly people of Palma de Mallorca, and to evaluate their nutritional status and risk of undernutrition.

Design: Anthropometric and dietary survey (3-day food record), and risk of undernutrition (MNA-SF) were assessed in 230 (89 men and 141 women) free-living elderly people (average age 72.7 +/- 5.

Correlation between optical and psychophysical parameters as a function of defocus.

Purpose: To evaluate how ocular optical image quality and psychophysical estimates of visual performance compare to each other as a function of defocus.

Methods: We measured the optical modulation transfer function using a double-pass apparatus and psychophysical estimates of visual performance: contrast sensitivity function (CSF) and visual acuity. Both sets of data were obtained under the same optical conditions.

Influence of peripheral degradation on the identification of eccentric targets (revised).

When the peripheral field is degraded, or 'modulated', as occurs with certain corrective lenses, identification of a peripheral image requires combined head and eye movements to place the image within a relatively clear section of the field. In such cases the time required to identify a peripheral object increases systematically. Previous experiments involving severely restricted peripheral fields (slit viewing) have indicated that the increase in identification time is primarily determined by the dynamics of the head movement.

[Vascular anomalies of the kidney. Apropos of 3 cases].

Two cases of rare vascular lesions of kidney are reported: a patient with a renal angioma and one with an aneurysm acquired after an oster type endocarditis. Both lesions were detected after severe hemorrhage and nephrectomy was performed in each case. Exact diagnosis was dependent on histopathologic findings.