Chronic kidney disease and the short-term risk of mortality and amputation in patients hospitalized for peripheral artery disease.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its prognostic value in patients hospitalized for lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD).

Methods: Data from the COhorte des Patients ARTériopathes registry, a prospective multicenter, observational study of consecutive patients hospitalized for PAD in academic hospitals of southwestern France, were analyzed. All the subjects were in Rutherford grade ≥ 3, and 55.

Heart failure in acute myocardial infarction: a comparison between patients with or without heart failure criteria from the FAST-MI registry.

Introduction And Objectives: To compare acute myocardial infarction patients with or without congestive heart failure in the French FAST-MI registry.

Methods: The French FAST-MI registry included 374 centers and 3059 patients over a 1-month period at the end of 2005, with 1-year follow-up. Among this population, patients with at least one congestive heart failure criterion constituted group 1 (n=1149; 37.

Six-item self-administered questionnaires in the waiting room: an aid to explain uncontrolled hypertension in high-risk patients seen in general practice.

We designed a cross-sectional study to determine whether 6-item self-administered questionnaires addressing difficulties in taking treatment provide independent and relevant information on uncontrolled hypertension in high-risk cardiovascular patients seen in general practice. Patients with both treated hypertension and a history of vascular diseases-myocardial infarction, stroke, or peripheral artery disease-were included. Risk factors, treatment, history of vascular diseases, blood pressure, and difficulties in taking treatment were assessed by 6-item self-administered questionnaires and recorded.

Comparison of hypertension management after stroke and myocardial infarction: results from ECLAT1--a French nationwide study.

Background And Purpose: Hypertension control is a cornerstone of preventive treatment in patients at risk for cerebral attack. The aim of this study was to analyze hypertension management in secondary prevention of stroke as compared with patients in secondary prevention of myocardial infarction (MI).

Methods: The ECLAT1 study was a cross-sectional study conducted in all French regions in a random sample of 3009 practitioners.

Why is hypertension so frequently uncontrolled in secondary prevention?

Objective: To analyze blood pressure (BP) control in secondary prevention.

Design: Individual data of two cross-sectional studies on preventive cardiology (PRATIK and ESPOIR studies conducted, respectively, in general practice and with private cardiologists) were analyzed.

Setting: Primary care.