A peer-to-peer campaign to promote organ donation among racially diverse college students in New York City.

Purpose: Due to the documented disparities in organ transplantation, individuals from racially diverse backgrounds are encouraged to register as donors and communicate their donation intentions to family. The present study reports an intervention aimed at addressing students' fears and misconceptions related to organ transplantation on college campuses with racially diverse student enrollments. The intervention uses peer-to-peer campaigns at colleges in New York City in an attempt to increase declarations of intent to donate and to educate students about transplantation.

Trimetazidine potentiates the effects of exercise training in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy referred for cardiac rehabilitation.

Background: Patients referred for cardiac rehabilitation may take advantage from combining trimetazidine (TMZ) with exercise training (ET), as both treatments produce similar effects in the cardiovascular system. It is, however, unknown whether the combination of TMZ with ET may determine greater improvements in functional capacity and endothelial function than ET alone.

Design: A randomized longitudinal controlled study.

Waltz dancing in patients with chronic heart failure: new form of exercise training.

Background: There is evidence that aerobic exercise improves functional capacity in patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II and III chronic heart failure. However, it is unknown whether dancing is safe and able to improve functional capacity in patients with chronic heart failure.

Methods And Results: We prospectively studied 130 patients with stable chronic heart failure (107 men; mean age, 59+/-11 years) in New York Heart Association class II and III and left ventricle ejection fraction <40%.

Trimetazidine improves endothelial dysfunction in chronic heart failure: an antioxidant effect.

Aims: To determine whether trimetazidine (TMZ) improves the endothelium-dependent relaxation (EDR) in chronic heart failure (CHF) and whether this effect is associated with its antioxidant properties.

Methods And Results: We studied 51 patients (mean age 51.4 +/- 6 years) with CHF secondary to ischaemic cardiomyopathy (ejection fraction 32.

Clinical benefits of a metabolic approach in the cardiac rehabilitation of patients with coronary artery disease.

Patients referred for cardiac rehabilitation may benefit from combining trimetazidine with exercise training because both treatments produce synergic benefits on the cardiovascular system. There is evidence that trimetazidine improves left ventricular (LV) function in patients with ischemic and diabetic cardiomyopathy by shifting the cellular energy substrate reference from fatty acids to glucose oxidation, and that this effect is associated with a better outcome. Recently, results have demonstrated that trimetazidine improves radial artery endothelium-dependent relaxation related to its antioxidant properties.