Black Women's Recommendations for Developing Effective Type 2 Diabetes Programming.

The purpose of this study was to learn from 29 Black women how to develop effective Type 2 diabetes programming. Three focus groups were held in Des Moines, Iowa, during fall 2012. Results highlighted themes related to diabetes knowledge, diabetes management and prevention, physical activity, diet, and diabetes management programming.

Predictive value of clinical and electrophysiological variables in patients with chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia.

Objective: Risk stratification of patients with nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) and chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy (CCC).

Methods: Seventy eight patients with CCC and NSVT were consecutively and prospectively studied. All patients underwent to 24-hour Holter monitoring, radioisotopic ventriculography, left ventricular angiography, and electrophysiologic study.

Characteristics and identification of sites of chagasic ventricular tachycardia by endocardial mapping.

Objective: To study electrophysiological characteristics that enable the identification and ablation of sites of chagasic tachycardia.

Methods: Thirty-one patients with chronic Chagas' heart disease and sustained ventricular tachycardia (SVT) underwent electrophysiological study to map and ablate that arrhythmia. Fifteen patients had hemodynamically stable SVT reproducible by programmed ventricular stimulation, 9 men and 6 women with ages ranging from 37 to 67 years and ejection fraction varying from 0.

[Analysis of the junctional rhythm characteristics in patients with nodal reentry tachycardia treated with slow pathway radiofrequency ablation].

Purpose: To study the quantitative and qualitative aspects of junctional rhythm (JR) during radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation of slow pathway in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia.

Methods: Twenty five patients, 5 males, ages ranging from 15 to 76 years, with recurrent atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia, underwent to RF catheter ablation of slow pathway. During RF applications (40V, duration 60s) electrocardiographic was continuously recorded.