Control of baseline cardiovascular risk factors in the SU-FOL-OM3 study cohort: does the localization of the arterial event matter?

Aim And Method: No data are currently available on the prevalence and control of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors in secondary prevention depending on the cardiac or cerebral localization of the ischemic disease. We investigated the prevalence and control of modifiable CV risk factors, as well as the determinants of CV risk factors' control and adequate treatment in a secondary prevention cohort, the SU-FOL-OM3 study cohort, to determine the role of the localization of the ischemic disease including events.

Results: A total of 2491 patients were included in the study.

A rare cause of complicated hypertension: urinary bladder paraganglioma.

After a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a 35-year-old patient developed paroxystic hypertension accompanied by typical symptoms. These symptoms occurred exclusively after urination. A urinary bladder paraganglioma was discovered using iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (I-123 MIBG) scintigraphy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after the detection of an abnormally elevated plasma metanephrine measurement.

Predictive factors for all-cause mortality in the hospitalized elderly subject: the importance of arrhythmia.

Background: In elderly patients traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors are poorly correlated with mortality and few data are available on determinants and consequences of supra-ventricular arrhythmia. In a cohort of 331 hospitalized elderly patients (mean age+/-SD=85+/-7 years), we assessed which CV characteristics were associated with all-cause mortality.

Aim Of The Study: We wished to determine whether the presence of arrhythmia was associated with an increase of overall mortality in the hospitalized elderly population, and to ascertain which factors were associated with arrhythmia, in order to better understand the underlying mechanisms of both arrhythmia and arrhythmia-related mortality in these patients.

[Isolated coronary surgery in the octogenarian. Immediate results and analysis of long-term survival rate and quality of life].

Background: There are almost three million octogenarians living in France, many of whom present with a coronaropathy. Moreover, it appears that life expectancy at 80 years of age is still important.

Objective: To evaluate the results of coronary surgery among these patients.

Pulse pressure amplification, adiposity and metabolic syndrome in subjects under chronic antihypertensive therapy: the role of heart rate.

Background: Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are increased in subjects chronically treated for hypertension. However, the relationships of BMI, WC and metabolic syndrome (MS) with central wave reflections and pulse pressure (PP) amplification have never been investigated.

Methods: A cohort of 517 treated hypertensives was studied cross-sectionally as function of BMI, WC and presence of MS, the latter used as index of insulin resistance.