Maternal Obesity Is an Independent Risk Factor for Intensive Care Unit Admission during Delivery Hospitalization.

Objective: We aim to quantify the impact of obesity on maternal intensive care unit (ICU) admission.

Materials And Methods: This is a population-based, retrospective cohort study of Ohio live births from 2006 to 2012. The primary outcome was maternal ICU admission.

Influence of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and rheological factors on the sex difference in cardiovascular disease.

Background: It is well established that the incidence of cardiovascular disease among men is higher than that among women.

Objective: To determine whether differences between men and women in terms of a range of conventional and rheological risk factors could explain this sex difference.

Design: This was a population-based cohort study (the Edinburgh Artery Study).

Is intermittent claudication improved by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty? A randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) is an increasingly popular invasive treatment for peripheral arterial disease, but there have been very few controlled trials to justify its use. This randomized controlled clinical trial was performed to determine in patients with mild and moderate intermittent claudication differences in outcome between PTA and conventional medical treatment after 2 years.

Methods: Six hundred patients with claudication were screened at the Peripheral Vascular Clinic, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Use of ankle brachial pressure index to predict cardiovascular events and death: a cohort study.

Objective: To determine whether a low ankle brachial pressure index is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events and death, and whether the prediction of such events could be improved by including this index.

Design: Cohort study.

Setting: 11 practices in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Incidence, natural history and cardiovascular events in symptomatic and asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease in the general population.

Background: Intermittent claudication is associated with a poor prognosis, but less is known of the risks associated with asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease. The aims of this study were to determine the incidence and natural history of claudication, and the incidence of cardiovascular events in symptomatic and asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease.

Methods: In 1988, 1592 subjects aged 55-74 years were selected randomly from the age-sex register of 10 general practices in Edinburgh, Scotland.