Heart Failure Awareness Survey in a Turkish Population: HFAS-TR.

Objective: Heart failure is a leading cause of death and the most common diagnosis leading to hospitalization. Its awareness is lower than that of other cardiovascular diseases, both in the general population and among patients with heart failure (HF). This study aimed to establish the current level of knowledge about HF in patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF) in Türkiye.

Awareness and Knowledge of Pneumococcal Vaccination in Cardiology Outpatient Clinics and the Impact of Physicians' Recommendations on Vaccination Rates.

Aim: We aimed to evaluate the awareness of pneumococcal vaccination (PCV13, PPSV23) in general cardiology outpatient clinics and impact of physicians' recommendations on vaccination rates.

Methods: This was a multicenter, observational, prospective cohort study. Patients over the age of 18 from 40 hospitals in different regions of Turkey who applied to the cardiology outpatient clinic between September 2022 and August 2021 participated.

Relationship between HLA molecules and late restenosis after coronary stent placement.

Objective: The objective of this study is to confirm whether there is relation between the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) locus and restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) holds in our patient population and whether it can be useful as a prognostic factor.

Methods: We examined the HLA phenotypes in 46 consecutive patients (39 men, 7 women, mean age of 57 ± 9 years) who had successful stent implantation in the coronary artery. Selective coronary arteriography was performed 6 months after coronary stenting to assess the presence of restenosis.

The evaluation of cardiovascular response to exercise in healthy Turkish children.

The purpose of our study was to determine the normal cardiovascular responses of healthy Turkish children to exercise and to determine the reference values. Two hundred and eighty-four healthy children (115 girls, 169 boys) aged 5-14 were enrolled in the study. Exercise time (ET), workload that can be tolerated with exercise (MET value), change in heart rate (A HR), peak systolic and peak diastolic blood pressures (SBPmax and DBPmax), change in systolic blood pressure (delta SBP), and peak rate-pressure product (RPPmax) were positively correlated with age.

Drugs with blocking effects on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system do not improve endothelial dysfunction long-term in hypertensive patients.

In essential hypertension, endothelial dysfunction has been documented many times and correlates with prognosis. The influence of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) on endothelial dysfunction has also been studied. The present study investigated the duration of the effects of RAAS-blocking drugs on endothelial function in 44 consecutive, never-treated, outpatients with mild to moderate hypertension.