Participation in an Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program and Functional Improvement of Heart Failure Patients with Preserved Versus Reduced Left Ventricular Systolic Function.

Background: About half of all patients with heart failure are diagnosed with heart failure preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Until now, studies have failed to show that medical treatment improves the prognosis of patients with HFpEF.

Objectives: To evaluate changes in exercise capacity of patients with HFpEF compared to those with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) following an exercise training program.

The Association of Body Mass Index and 20-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease.

Background: Limited data exist regarding the long-term association of body mass index (BMI) and all-cause mortality among patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD). Accordingly, the aim of this study is to explore the association between BMI and long-term all-cause mortality among patients with stable CAD.

Methods: Our study included 15,357 patients with stable CAD who were enrolled in the Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention (BIP) registry between February, 1990 and October1992, and subsequently followed-up through December 2014.

The prognostic significance of improvement in exercise capacity in heart failure patients who participate in cardiac rehabilitation programme.

Introduction There are limited contemporary data regarding the association between improvement in cardiovascular fitness in heart failure patients who participate in a cardiac rehabilitation programme and the risk of subsequent hospitalisations. Methods The study population comprised 421 patients with heart failure who participated in our cardiac rehabilitation programme between the years 2009 and 2016. All were evaluated by a standard exercise stress test before initiation, and underwent a second exercise stress test on completion of 3 ± 1 months of training.

Impaired Fasting Glucose Is the Major Determinant of the 20-Year Mortality Risk Associated With Metabolic Syndrome in Nondiabetic Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease.

Background: We wanted to explore the association of metabolic syndrome (MetS) versus its individual components with 20-year all-cause mortality among patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Methods And Results: The cohort comprised 12 403 nondiabetic patients with stable coronary artery disease who were enrolled in the Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention Registry between February 1990 and October 1992 and followed up through December 2014. The study cohort was divided into 4 groups: patients without MetS or impaired fasting glucose (IFG), patients with IFG but without MetS, patients with MetS but without IFG, and patients with both MetS and IFG.

Elevated Admission Potassium Levels and 1-Year and 10-Year Mortality Among Patients With Heart Failure.

Background: Limited, contradictory data exist regarding the effect of hyperkalemia on both short- and long-term all-cause mortality among hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF).

Methods: We analyzed 4,031 patients who were enrolled in the Heart Failure Survey in Israel. The study patients were grouped into 3 different potassium (K) categories.

Cardiac rehabilitation following an acute coronary syndrome: Trends in referral, predictors and mortality outcome in a multicenter national registry between years 2006-2013: Report from the Working Group on Cardiac Rehabilitation, the Israeli Heart Society.

Background Utilization of cardiac rehabilitation is suboptimal. The aim of the study was to assess referral trends over the past decade, to identify predictors for referral to a cardiac rehabilitation program, and to evaluate the association with one-year mortality in a large national registry of acute coronary syndrome patients. Design and methods Data were extracted from the Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Survey national surveys between 2006-2013.

Metabolic syndrome is independently associated with increased 20-year mortality in patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Background: Data regarding long-term association of metabolic syndrome (MetS) with adverse outcomes are conflicting. We aim to determine the independent association of MetS (based on its different definitions) with 20 year all-cause mortality among patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD).

Methods: Our study comprised 15,524 patients who were enrolled in the Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention registry between February 1, 1990, and October 31, 1992, and subsequently followed-up for the long-term mortality through December 31, 2014.

Vitamin D inflammatory cytokines and coronary events: a comprehensive review.

Myocardial infarction (MI) is the most common cause of cardiac injury in the Western world. Cardiac injury activates innate immune mechanisms initiating an inflammatory reaction. Inflammatory cytokines and vascular cell adhesion molecules (VCAM) promote adhesive interactions between leukocytes and endothelial cells, resulting in the transmigration of inflammatory cells into the site of injury.

SOA does not Reveal the Absolute Time Course of Cognitive Processing in Fast Priming Experiments.

Applying Bloch's law to visual word recognition research, both exposure duration of the prime and its luminance determine the prime's overall energy, and consequently determine the size of the priming effect. Nevertheless, experimenters using fast-priming paradigms traditionally focus only on the SOA between prime and target to reflect the absolute speed of cognitive processes under investigation. Some of the discrepancies in results regarding the time course of orthographic and phonological activation in word recognition research may be due to this factor.

[Orthodontic anchorage in the era of osseointegration].

The introduction of the concept of osseointegration had a profound impact on dentistry of the 20th century. The idea of using this concept in orthodontics already started in the late 70th. There demand for achieving optimal esthetic results in a minimal treatment time, and the significant increase in the number of adult orthodontic patients, made osseointegration an essential adjunct to orthodontic therapy.