The relationship between social isolation, social support, and loneliness with cardiovascular disease and shared risk factors: A narrative review.

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the greatest contributor to global morbidity and mortality. Poor social health plays a critical role in CVD incidence. Additionally, the relationship between social health and CVD may be mediated through CVD risk factors.

Social Isolation and Social Support Influence Health Service Utilisation and Survival after a Cardiovascular Disease Event: A Systematic Review.

Both cardiovascular disease (CVD) and social health carry high health and economic burdens. We undertook a systematic review to investigate the association between social isolation, low social support, and loneliness with health service utilisation and survival after a CVD event among people living in Australia and New Zealand. Four electronic databases were systematically searched for the period before June 2020.

Are social isolation, lack of social support or loneliness risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Australia and New Zealand? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: An international systematic review concluded that individuals with poor social health (social isolation, lack of social support or loneliness) are 30% more likely to develop coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. Notably, the two included Australian papers reported no association between social health and CHD or stroke.

Objective: We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the association between social isolation, lack of social support and loneliness and cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence among people living in Australia and New Zealand.

Social isolation, social support, and loneliness and their relationship with cognitive health and dementia.

Background: Poor social health is prevalent in older adults and may be associated with worse cognition, and increased dementia risk. The aim of this study was to determine whether social isolation, social support and loneliness are independently associated with cognitive function and incident dementia over 5 years in older adults, and to investigate potential gender differences.

Methods: Participants were 11,498 community-dwelling relatively healthy Australians aged 70-94, in the ASPREE Longitudinal Study of Older Persons (ALSOP).

Adults With Tetralogy of Fallot: Early Postoperative Outcomes and Risk Factors for Complications.

Objective: To report the early postoperative outcomes in adults with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) undergoing cardiac surgery and to identify patient factors associated with complications.

Patients And Methods: We performed a single-institution retrospective review of adults with TOF who underwent cardiac surgery from January 8, 2008, through June 21, 2018. Patients' characteristics, preoperative imaging, surgical interventions, outcomes, and complications were analyzed.

Social isolation, social support, loneliness and cardiovascular disease risk factors: A cross-sectional study among older adults.

Background: Social health reflects one's ability to form interpersonal relationships. Poor social health is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), however an in-depth exploration of the link through CVD risk factors is lacking.

Aim: To examine the relationship between social health (social isolation, social support, loneliness) and CVD risk factors among healthy older women and men.

Does social isolation, social support or loneliness influence health or well-being after a cardiovascular disease event? A narrative thematic systematic review.

Identification of factors which influence health after a cardiovascular disease (CVD) event will assist with reducing the high health and economic burden of CVD. We undertook a systematic review to investigate the association between social health (lower social isolation, higher social support and lower loneliness) and health and well-being after a CVD event among people living in Australia and New Zealand. Four electronic databases were systematically searched until June 2020.

Genetic Association Between Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Cardiomyopathies.

Background: Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) with risk of poor outcome has been linked to variants, implicating overlap in genetic etiologies of structural and myopathic heart disease.

Methods: Whole genome sequencing was performed in 197 probands with HLHS, 43 family members, and 813 controls. Data were filtered for rare, segregating variants in 3 index families comprised of an HLHS proband and relative(s) with cardiomyopathy.

Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography as a Measure of Porcine Hepatic Disease in Right Heart Dysfunction: A Pilot Study.

Patients with congenital heart disease with a pressure-overloaded right ventricle can develop liver disease and would benefit from non-invasive diagnostic modalities such as ultrasound shear wave elastography (US SWE). We sought to investigate the ability of US SWE to measure dynamic changes in liver stiffness with an acute fluid bolus in an animal model. Three piglets underwent surgical intervention to create a pressure-overloaded right ventricle and, 12 wk later, underwent US SWE, both pre- and post-intravenous infusion of a saline bolus.

Acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis in an immunocompromised young adult.

Acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis is an acute onset disease characterised by ulceration, necrosis, pain and bleeding in gingival surfaces. It is predominantly seen in severely malnourished children and young adults with advanced HIV infection. We present a unique presentation in a young adult with high-grade osteogenic sarcoma.