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Filter by:To evaluate the efficacy of peer-based skills training to enhance weight control and improve psychosocial functioning in overweight adolescents.
To characterize the pattern of change over a two year period in energy expenditure and energy intake in two cohorts of American Indian (AI) children.
To determine familial and non-familial causes for susceptibility to atherosclerosis and the inflammatory response.
To determine whether maternal undernutrition in pregnancy is associated with differences between siblings for cardiovascular risk factors in adulthood.
This study will compare medical therapy with coronary bypass surgery and/or surgical ventricular reconstruction for patients with congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease (CAD).
The purpose of this study is to test the effect of lifestyle intervention on subclinical cardiovascular disease measures in women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
This study will explore how people with an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) feel that dependence on this life-saving technology affects their health-related quality of life. ICD therapy is an important treatment option for patients with serious recurrent abnormal heart rhythms. Overall survival is significantly improved in high risk patients who receive this therapy. This study will explore patients' perceptions of the impact of this device on their health status and well being, and their physical, psychological and social functioning. Patients 18 years of age or older who have an implanted cardioverter defibrillator may be eligible for this study. Participants will fill out a questionnaire booklet containing 170 questions about how they feel about their health, including their concerns and stresses, feelings about dependency on life-saving technology, and illness perception. There are also questions on demography, such as age, marital status, employment, etc. The booklet may take up to 30 minutes to complete. Information obtained from this study may lead to a better understanding of how people feel about their health after receiving an ICD and help patients and families adapt to living with the device.
To determine the effects of four treatments (placebo, a vitamin E and C regimen, a hormone replacement regimen, and a combined vitamin/hormone replacement regimen) on specific markers of oxidative damage in coronary arteries of postmenopausal women.
To determine the value of serum markers as surrogate endpoints and hemodynamic biomarkers of congestive heart failure.
To test whether novel cardiovascular risk factors are related to the presence and development of atherosclerosis and macrovascular events in Type 2 diabetes mellitus and to determine whether intensive glucose lowering therapy will reduce the levels of these cardiovascular risk factors.