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Open AccessProfiling chronic diseases and hospitalizations in older home care recipients: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden
Older adults with home care (HC) often have complex disease patterns and use healthcare extensively. Increased understanding is necessary to tailor their care. To our knowledge, this is the first study to desc...
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Temporal trends from 2005 to 2018 in deaths and cardiovascular events in subjects with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis
Although rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with an increased risk of death and cardiovascular (CV) disease, the excess of these risks is expected to have diminished over time, in more recent incident coh...
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Open AccessTumour necrosis factor inhibitors reduce aortic stiffness progression in patients with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis
Aortic stiffness index (AoSI) has to be considered a proxy outcome measure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of this study was to comparatively describe AoSI progression in two groups of RA p...
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Open AccessClinical profile and outcome of patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis and metabolic syndrome
Systemic chronic inflammation may favor the onset of metabolic syndrome (MetS) which represents a risk factor for CV events. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA)...
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Open AccessThe troubling liaison between cancer and metabolic syndrome in chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases
Several studies on community populations found that metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with higher risk for total incident cancer with a predisposition for specific types of cancer. These findings have ne...
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Cancer in adult patients with inflammatory arthritis is associated with high ascending aortic stiffness and left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction
Inflammatory arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and ankylosing spondylitis (AS), are associated with both cancer and cardiovascular (CV) adverse events. Cancer and CV ab...
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Traditional cardiovascular risk factors and residual disease activity are associated with atherosclerosis progression in rheumatoid arthritis patients
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased incidence of cardiovascular events. Ultrasound examination of the carotid arteries can show the presence of plaques and detect the atherosclerotic subc...
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CHA2DS2-VASc Score Predicts Adverse Outcome in Patients with Simple Congenital Heart Disease Regardless of Cardiac Rhythm
Adult patients with simple congenital heart disease (sACHD) represent an expanding population vulnerable to atrial arrhythmias (AA). CHA2DS2-VASc score estimates thromboembolic risk in non-valvular atrial fibrill...
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Effects of Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitor Linagliptin on Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Concentric Left Ventricular Geometry (the DYDA 2™ Trial). Rationale, Design, and Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population
A multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study aimed to define the potential positive effect of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibition on left ventricular systolic function (LVSF)...
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Open AccessP169 Relationship Between Common Carotid Distensibility/Aortic Stiffness and Left Ventricular Morphology and Function in Rheumatologic Patients
Arterial stiffness is known to be associated with atherosclerosis, cardiac remodelling and cardiovascular diseases. In recent studies, common carotid artery rigidity was seen to better predict cardiac morpholo...
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Open AccessAre aortic coarctation and rheumatoid arthritis different models of aortic stiffness? Data from an echocardiographic study
Patients who underwent a successful repair of the aortic coarctation (CoA) show high risk for cardiovascular (CV) events. Mechanical and structural abnormalities in the ascending aorta (Ao) might have a role i...
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Factors associated with accelerated subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with spondyloarthritis without overt cardiovascular disease
Data on the progression of atherosclerosis in spondyloarthritis (SpA) are scarce, despite a high burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of an accelerated ...
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Open AccessEchocardiographic markers of inducible myocardial ischemia at baseline evaluation preparatory to exercise stress echocardiography
Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) is a sensible and feasible method to detect longitudinal left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction (LVSD) in patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension or ischemic heart diseas...
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Three dimensional printing of an atrial septal defect: Is it multimodality imaging?
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Clinical implications of the CKD epidemiology collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation compared with the modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD) study equation for the estimation of renal dysfunction in patients with cardiovascular disease
The CKD-EPI equation is more accurate than the MDRD equation in the general population. We performed this study to establish whether chronic kidney disease (CKD) is commonly recognized by clinicians and whethe...
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Does metabolic syndrome worsen systolic dysfunction in diabetes? The shortwave study
Patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS) have high cardiovascular event rates. The additional effect of MetS on left ventricular (LV) systolic function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is unknow...
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Open AccessDoes treatment assignment influence the prognosis of patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis?
Aortic valve replacement (AVR) is the standard therapy in patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS). In high surgical risk patients, alternative therapeutic options to medical treatment (MT) such as trans...
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Prevalence and prognostic role of anaemia in patients with acute heart failure and preserved or depressed ventricular function
Observations available for patients with acute heart failure (HF) show conflicting results, and the prognostic role of anaemia ascertained on hospital admission is not well defined. We investigated the databas...
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Open AccessThe pressure/volume relationship during dobutamine stress echocardiography in transplanted heart: comparison with quality of life and coronary anatomy
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is a major late complication in cardiac transplant recipients and has a relevant impact on outcome of these patients. Aims of this study: to compare, in cardiac transplant ...
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Open AccessGlobal left ventricular load in asymptomatic aortic stenosis: covariates and prognostic implication (the SEAS trial)
Valvuloarterial impedance (Zva) is a measure of global (combined valvular and arterial) load opposing left ventricular (LV) ejection in aortic stenosis (AS). The present study identified covariates and tested ...
