Prevalence and Risk Factors for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in 7704 Individuals: An Analysis from the Greek Registry for the Prevalence of Familial Hypercholesterolemia (GRegistry-FH).

The intention of this study was to profile the cohort from the Greek Registry for the prevalence of Familial Hypercholesterolemia (GRegistry-FH) by estimating the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD), myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, dyslipidemia, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), pre-DM, smoking, abnormal thyroid function (ATF), and lipid values. The GRegistry-FH is a prospective study involving door-to-door interviews conducted by trained interviewers. Overall, 7704 individuals aged ≥18 years, randomly selected from all the regions of Greece, participated.

Cardiac adaptation to intensive training in prepubertal swimmers.

Background: Despite the increasing involvement of child athletes in intensive training regimens, little is known about the influence of such training on autonomic regulation and cardiac structure and function.

Patients And Methods: Twenty-five highly trained (12-14 h weekly for at least 4 years) swimmers (aged 11.9 +/- 1.

Mechanographic assessment of disopyramide in postinfarction patients.

The inotropic effect of a per os single dose of 200 mg disopyramide phosphate was studied in 25 patients during the second week after acute myocardial infarction with no signs of heart failure. Systolic time intervals and the indices derived from the uncalibrated differentiated carotidogram and apexcardiogram were used to assess changes in cardiac performance. The results were as follows: a) Reduction by 3.