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Filter by:To develop a culturally tailored intervention intended to promote adherence to nutrition and physical activity regimens designed to result in weight loss for African American women.
Objectives: Evaluate differences for mortality, morbidity and the cardiovascular risk factors between HIV and non-HIV patients with an acute coronary syndromes (ACS) after a 3-years follow up.
The purpose of this study is to develop and field test a maintenance of smoking abstinence program designed for a predominately low-income, high-risk population of women from a wide variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds who have quit smoking because of (or during) their pregnancy.
The study has two objectives/aims: Aim 1: To test the efficacy of the intervention among adult smokers with cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease and diabetes mellitus related illnesses (later modified to Chinese adults with and without diseases); and Aim 2: To examine a set of measures (background, general health, psychosocial, and smoking process) that are associated with smoking cessation at 6 and 12 months
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of two organizational interventions aimed at improving blood pressure (BP) control among a high-risk, African American home care population.
The Torcetrapib project was terminated on December 2, 2006 due to safety findings. To look at ultrasound images taken in the blood vessels of the heart and to look at various lipids in the blood of people with known coronary heart disease
The primary endpoint is coronary artery diameter, normalized for body surface area, 5 weeks after randomization. Secondary endpoints include duration of fever, CRP levels, and adverse events.
The study will investigate the efficacy of oral levosimendan in patients with chronic New York Heart Association (NYHA) IIIb-IV heart failure (HF) using a composite end-point evaluating patient symptoms, morbidity and mortality. The patients are on treatment for at least 6 months.
As part of the NHS plan it has been proposed to extend some consultants' usual practices and to send all patients copies of the letters sent to their general practitioners (GPs) following outpatient consultations. The current Secretary of State for Health has further extended this proposal and suggested that patients should have a specific letter to themselves after a hospital consultation. The aim of this study is to send patients both a copy of the letter sent to their GPs and a specific letter to themselves and to assess the usefulness and comprehensibility of each.
To examine whether the Stanford Health Education and Risk Reduction Training (HEAR2T) program , a case management approach, can be effectively used to manage the risk of coronary artery disease.