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Filter by:This study aims to show that a 6-week program designed specifically for women can lead to sustainable behavior change and improvement in heart disease risk factors over one year among a cohort of 46 female employees recruited from within the Heart Hospital at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH). The program is adapted from book "Heart Smart for Women: Six S. T. E. P. S in Six Weeks to Heart-Healthy Living," written by Northwell cardiologists Dr. Jennifer H. Mieres and Dr. Stacey E. Rosen. The 6-week intervention will include a weekly didactic session, with each week devoted to a different theme (food, exercise, etc). The intervention will follow the program outlined in the book. We will also be using Yammer, an online discussion group part of the Office 365 suite, to distribute materials and encourage conversations surrounding the theme of the week.
Our previous study has found that oil palm phenolics (OPP) supplementation at 9 grams per day is safe for consumption. An interesting observation was reported where the consumption of OPP showed significantly lower total and LDL cholesterol compared to the control group. There is no clinical evidence as yet on the optimum dosage of OPP supplementation in improving fasting lipid profile. We hypothesize that in a clinical study, OPP supplemented participants will elicit a reduction in total and LDL cholesterol while maintaining safety and tolerability.
The guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for preoperative management in non-cardiac surgery make the estimation of patients' maximum oxygen uptake (VO2peak) one of the cornerstones of preoperative evaluation. Indeed, below a certain threshold of VO2 peak fixed in the literature at 15 milliliters/kilogram/minutes (ml/kg/min) (or 4 Metabolic Equivalent of Task - MET), the ESC recommends to carry out additional non-invasive examinations to evaluate the coronary risk of these patients. In current practice, this evaluation is performed in anesthesia consultation by non-standard interview. The question "Can you go up a floor or climb a hill?" permits to classify patients with more or less VO2 peak than 4 MET. However, several studies, including one published in the Lancet in 2018, show that this evaluation doesn't assess correctly the VO2peak of the patients nor predict post-operative cardiac complications. In the same study, the evaluation of a standardized self-questionnaire, the Duke Activity Status Index (DASI), found a good correlation between the value of this pre-operative score and the 30-day mortality as well as the occurrence of infarction. This self-questionnaire contains a dozen questions about the physical activities of daily life that patients are able or not to perform (household, various physical activity). It has also been validated in medical patients as being well correlated with the value of VO2 peak in the case of an answer by a third party (r = 0.81, p <0.001) and satisfactory in the case of a self-questionnaire (r = 0.58 , p <0.001). This self-questionnaire exists in English but there is no validated translation in French. Given the cultural differences, it seems necessary in order to use it in a French-speaking context to go through a scientific validation stage. A validation study of DASI in Portuguese has already been published recently, serving as a methodological basis for a French translation. The purpose of this study is to carry out a validation of a standardized self-questionnaire in French. It will be distributed to patients referred for a VO2peak test as part of their standard management in the Louis Pradel Hospital (Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon). The results of VO2peak predicted by the self-questionnaire will be compared to the VO2 peak measured during the examination.
The current study examined the influence of an acute weight stigma exposure on cardiovascular reactivity among women with obesity and high blood pressure and women with obesity and normal blood pressure.
In this randomized double-blinded clinical trial, 400mg of hydroxychloroquine will be given daily to people over the age of 65 years with moderate-severe obstructive sleep apnea for 8 weeks. The aim of this study is to test whether hydroxychloroquine can improve endothelial function.
40-70 healthy volunteers of ages 18 to 65 participate in a E-EPA-diet where 3,9 grams of E-EPA is added to their normal diet and lifestyles for a month. Blood samples will be collected before the study and at weeks 1 and 4 and also, two weeks after finishing the diet. Main study focuses are LDL aggregation susceptibility, lipid composition and proteoglycan binding affinity. In addition, important plasma lipid metabolism enzymes and lipid mediated resolvins are measured as well as several baseline characteristics.
The long-term objective of this project is to improve human health and impact health care delivery by developing intelligent technologies that aid with health monitoring and intervention. The immediate objective of this project is to design, evaluate and validate machine learning-based software algorithms that recognize daily activities, provide activity-aware medicine reminder interventions and provide insights on intervention timings that yield successful compliance. The investigators hypothesize that many individuals with needs for medicine intervention can be more compliant with their medicine regimen if prompts are provided at the right times and in the right context. The investigators plan to accomplish these objectives by 1) enhancing and validating software algorithms that recognize daily activities and activity transitions, 2) developing and validating activity-aware medicine prompting interventions for mobile devices, and 3) designing technologies to analyze medicine reminder successes and failures. The proposed work will partner real-time methodologies for validation and algorithmic development with smart phone data, utilize novel activity discovery algorithms, and employ activity recognition and prediction algorithms in the development of activity-aware prompting.
Recently, a key role played in the ethiology of periodontitis has been highlighted by a Endothelin (ET-1). ET1 possess the ability to express surface antigens of endothelial and hematopoietic stem cells and to assist in maintaining vascular integrity and the repair mechanism of the endothelium. ET originate from bone marrow
To evaluate the feasibility and safety of the Millipede Transcatheter Annuloplasty Ring System in subjects with functional mitral regurgitation
"MEtabolomics and MicrObiomics in caRdIovAscular diseases Mannheim (MEMORIAM) " is a single-center, prospective and observational study investigating to identify disease-specific metabolic, respectively microbiomic, patterns of patients with high-risk cardiovascular diseases. High-risk cardiovascular diseases comprise patients suffering from acute heart failure (AHF), ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), sepsis, septic shock, ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.