Aircraft noise exposure and risk for recurrent cardiovascular events after acute coronary syndrome: A prospective patient cohort study.

In several population based cohort studies associations between aircraft noise and various diagnoses of cardiovascular disease were observed. However, no study has yet addressed the risk of recurrences in relation to transportation noise in patients with acute coronary heart disease. We conducted a prospective patient cohort study of 737 individuals recruited from eleven cardiac centers in the Rhine-Main region in the vicinity of Frankfurt Airport.

[Self-assessment of adolescents regarding water pipe consumption].

Objective: The use of water pipes is an alternative to cigarette smoking. Current studies show that water pipe smoking is as hazardous as smoking cigarettes. However, rates of water pipe consumption are still high.

Detection of gender differences in incomplete revascularization after coronary artery bypass surgery varies with classification technique.

Background: Incomplete revascularization negatively affects survival after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Since gender and classification technique might impact outcome and reporting, we investigated their effect on revascularization patterns and mortality.

Methods: A cohort of bypass patients (N = 1545, 23% women) was enrolled prospectively.

Health consequences of aircraft noise.

Introduction: The ever-increasing level of air traffic means that any medical evaluation of its effects must be based on recent data.

Methods: Selective literature review of epidemiological studies from 2000 to 2007 regarding the illnesses, annoyance, and learning disorders resulting from aircraft noise.

Results: In residential areas, outdoor aircraft noise-induced equivalent noise levels of 60 dB(A) in the daytime and 45 dB(A) at night are associated with an increased incidence of hypertension.

Influence of doxycycline on clinical and angiographic outcome following percutaneous coronary intervention.

Background: Infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae may be involved in atherosclerosis. Neointima proliferation after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) could be aggravated by proinflammatory action of chronic vascular chlamydial infection. We investigated the influence of doxycycline therapy on restenosis rate and adverse clinical event rates after PCI.

[4th report of German Association of Cardiologists in private practice (BNK) on quality assurance in cardiac catheterization and coronary intervention 1999-2002].

The Society of German Cardiologists in private practice (BNK) reports about its project on quality assurance in invasive cardiology (QuIK). Results of a computerized data collection and analysis of cardiac catheterizations and interventions in the years 1999-2002 are presented. These results are compared with other registries.