Context: Diabetes and obesity are established risk factors for congestive heart failure(CHF) and are both associated with insulin resistance. Objective: To explore if insulin resistance may predict CHF and may provide...
Context: Elderly persons with chronic kidney disease have substantial risk for cardiovascular mortality, but the relative importance of traditional and novel risk factors is unknown. Objective: To compare traditional ...
Background: Secretion of natriuretic peptides is related to cardiac wall stress and influenced by the renin-angiotensin system. Therefore,we investigated the influence of blood pressure(BP)reduction with losartan vers...
This study investigated whether aortic valve(AV)sclerosis was associated with traditional cardiovascular(CV)risk factors and CV events in hypertensive patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular(LV)hypertrophy...