Serum Lipid Profiles and All-Cause Mortality: A Retrospective Single Center Study on Chinese Inpatient Centenarians.

Objectives: To analyze the serum lipid profiles and investigate the relationship between the lipoprotein cholesterol levels and all-cause mortality in Chinese inpatient centenarians.

Design: Retrospective study.

Methods: Centenarians aged 100 years and older were admitted from January 2010 to January 2021 in our hospital.

Moderate chronic kidney disease and left atrial enlargement independently predict thromboembolic events and mortality in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation: a retrospective single-center study.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) and left atrial enlargement on the risks of thromboembolic events, and all-cause and cardiovascular mortalities in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).

Methods: We retrospectively studied 751 patients (82.16% men, mean age: 79.

The prognostic values of beta-2 microglobulin for risks of cardiovascular events and mortality in the elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension.

Background: The present study aimed to investigate the effects of serum beta-2 microglobulin (B2M) on the risks of major cardiovascular events (MACEs) and all-cause death in Chinese elderly isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) patients without severe renal insufficiency (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] <30 ml/min/1.73 m).

Materials And Methods: Serum B2M concentration, creatinine-eGFR, and blood pressure variability were evaluated in 460 elderly patients (mean age, 82.

Association between urinary sodium excretion and coronary heart disease in hospitalized elderly patients in China.

Objective This study was performed to evaluate the association between urinary sodium excretion and coronary heart disease (CHD) in hospitalized elderly patients in China. Methods The 24-h urinary excretion specimens of 541 patients were collected, and the serum creatinine concentration and urinary sodium/potassium ratio were measured. Associations were explored by multivariate logistic regression analysis.

[Effects of left atrial enlargment on the recurrence of atrial fibrillation in elderly paroxysm alatrial fibrillation patients after pacemaker implantation].

Objective: To investigate the incidence of recurrent atrial fibrillation, including asymptomatic atrial fibrillation, and the effect of left atrial volume index (LAVI) on recurrence of atrial fibrillation in elderly paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients with implanted cardiac pacemakers.

Methods: One hundred and forty eight elderly paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients without antiarrhythmic drug therapy after car-diac pacemaker implantation were selected from January 2012 to December 2013 in this study. The baseline characteristics, echocardiography parameters, the incidence of recurrent atrial fibrillation and the burden of atrial fibrillation were recorded.

The future of remote ECG monitoring systems.

Remote ECG monitoring systems are becoming commonplace medical devices for remote heart monitoring. In recent years, remote ECG monitoring systems have been applied in the monitoring of various kinds of heart diseases, and the quality of the transmission and reception of the ECG signals during remote process kept advancing. However, there remains accompanying challenges.

Prevalence of and risk factors for postprandial hypotension in older Chinese men.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of and risk factors for postprandial hypotension (PPH) among old and very old Chinese men.

Methods: The study included 349 Chinese men aged 65 and older, grouped into two age categories: group 1 (old) included 163 men aged 65 to 80 years; group 2 (very old) included 186 men aged over 80 years. Blood pressure changes after meals were assessed every 15 min by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

Effects of body mass index on risks for ischemic stroke, thromboembolism, and mortality in Chinese atrial fibrillation patients: a single-center experience.

Background: Obesity is considered to be related to recurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF), left atrial thrombus formation, and atrial remodeling. However, whether obesity is an independent risk factor for stroke and other thromboembolic events is still controversial.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effects of body mass index (BMI) on the risks of stroke, thromboembolism, and mortality in AF patients.

[Effects of recombinant human growth hormone on serum lipid in aged male patients with chronic heart failure].

Objective: To investigate the effects of recombinant human growth hormone on serum lipid in aged male patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).

Methods: Eighty seven patients with chronic heart failure(> or = 60 years old) were randomly divided into 2 groups: the CHF control group (n = 46) who received regular therapy and the CHF experimental group (n = 41) who received regular therapy and recombinant human growth hormone. The treatment would be continued for 3 months.

Is combined lipid-regulating therapy safe and feasible for the very old patients with mixed dyslipidemia?

Objectives: To detect the efficacy and safety of combined lipid-regulating therapies in the very old patients with mixed dyslipidemia and determine an appropriate therapy for them.

Methods: Four hundred and fifty patients aged over 75 with mixed dyslipidemia were divided into five groups according to different combination therapies. Lipid levels and drug related adverse events were tested during the study.

[Changes of sex hormones and risk factors associated with atherosclerosis in old patients with castrated prostatic cancer].

Objective: To detect the relationship between changes of sex hormone levels and risk factors for atherosclerosis in old patients with castrated prostatic cancer.

Methods: Two hundred and forty-seven patients, over 65 years old, were divided into three groups: 64 non-prostatic cancer patients (group I), 61 non-castrated prostatic cancer patients (group II) and 122 castrated prostatic cancer patients (group III). Group I and group II served as controls.

[The metabolism characteristics of blood lipids and the correlation analysis of blood lipids and related factors such as age in the middle-aged and elderly men].

Objective: To investigate the relationship between the blood lipids and risk factors such as age in middle-aged and elderly men.

Methods: 1603 men aged over 50 years old who took health examinations in June 2006 in the Chinese PLA General hospital were taken into the study. The total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), fasting serum glucose (FBG), serum creatinine (Cr) and blood uric acid (UA) were detected, and the clinical data such as age, body height, body weight and blood pressure were recorded.

[The correlation analysis of carotid stenosis and pulse pressure in the elderly men with essential hypertension].

Objective: To investigate the relationship between the carotid stenosis (CS) and the pulse pressure (PP) in elderly men with essential hypertension.

Methods: According to the Color Doppler Flow Imaging (CDFI), 157 elderly men with essential hypertension and carotid atherosclerosis were divided into five classifications and two groups: CS < 50% group (n = 66) and CS > or = 50% group (n = 91). The blood pressures were measured within one year before the CDFI was taken and clinical data were recorded.

[Effects of cholesterol rich diet on blood coagulative and fibrinolytic activities in male rabbits].

Aim: To explore the effects of cholesterol rich diet on the activities of blood coagulative and fibrinolytic systems in male rabbits.

Methods: 14 male New Zealand white rabbits were randomized to cholesterol rich diet(CRD) group and common diet (control) group. Rabbits in CRD group were fed with 1% cholesterol embedded diet and those in the control group were fed with common diet.

[Investigations of the urinary sodium excretion in elderly men].

Aim: To explore the characteristics of the urinary excretion in the elderly patients and to offer some advice for the prevention and treatment of hyponatremia in the elderly patients.

Methods: 42 inpatients aged over 80 were divided into tow groups according to their creatinine clearance rate (CCR). Meanwhile, 24 patients aged 45-59 and 31 patients aged 60-79 were chosen as the control groups.