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Exploring the Association of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption with Presence of and Severe Coronary Artery Calcification.
Rev Cardiovasc Med
October 2024
Premium Care Center, Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, National Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, 100037 Beijing, China.
Background: Despite the majority of studies have identified smoking as a risk factor for coronary artery calcification (CAC), some studies have not identified this relationship. Differences on results reached by studies on the association of alcohol consumption with CAC exist. Moreover, studies have almost exclusively investigated the association between smoking and alcohol consumption independently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCharacteristics of deceleration capacity and deceleration runs in vasovagal syncope.
Clin Auton Res
February 2024
Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, National Key Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates the role of vagal activity in vasovagal syncope (VVS) by measuring heart rate (HR) deceleration capacity (DC) and deceleration runs (DRs) in patients experiencing VVS episodes.
- It involved 188 VVS patients (with some having positive head-up tilt test results) compared to 132 healthy controls, assessing their HR patterns over 24 hours.
- Results showed that VVS patients had higher HR deceleration capacity but lower minimum heart rates and longer deceleration runs compared to controls, indicating unique HR profiles in VVS patients between syncopal events.
Objectives: To determine the prognosis of Takayasu arteritis (TA) patients with moderate-to-severe aortic regurgitation treated with surgical vs conservative treatment and to identify independent prognostic factors of long-term outcomes.
Methods: Between January 2002 and January 2017, 101 consecutive TA patients with moderate-to-severe aortic regurgitation treated with either surgical (n = 38) or conservative (n = 63) treatments were investigated in this retrospective observational case-control study. The primary end point was all-cause mortality, and the secondary end point comprised the combined end points of death, non-fatal stroke and cardiac events (non-fatal myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure).