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Background: Soluble ST2 (sST2), a marker of myocyte stretch and fibrosis, has potential prognostic value in many acute ... older, community-dwelling subjects from the Cardiovascular Health Study without prevalent heart failure. sST2 levels ... laboratory measures of creatinine, albumin, glucose, and lipids were not performed at year 7 in CHS), measures from ...- 2014-04-03 04:55 - 8 comments
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... Traditional Medicare Introduction (Rationale and Background) Since the 1970s, Medicare beneficiaries have ... option of receiving their Medicare benefits through private health plans instead of the traditional fee-for-service ... as cognitive and functional status and verified chronic disease burden. Characterizing the differences between ...- 2014-04-10 12:33 - 4 comments
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... cognitive function, independent of individual demographic, health, and socioeconomic characteristics. However, research has ... a single race or have not stratified by race.Small vessel disease (SVD) of the brain, visible on magnetic resonance ...- 2014-04-11 13:02 - 6 comments
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... (IGF-I) has structural/functional similarities with insulin and may play a role in glucose homeostasis, along with IGF ... associations between baseline tertiles (T) of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 and incident diabetes in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a cohort of adults aged ≥65 years. ...- 2014-04-28 09:20 - 11 comments
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ABSTRACT Coagulation factor VIII and von Willebrand factor (vWF) are important components of the coagulation ... vWF antigen (vWF:Ag) are risk factors for cardiovascular disease and venous thromboembolism. Beyond associations with ...- 2014-04-04 22:11
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... retinopathy (DR) is a major complication of diabetes and the most frequent cause of blindness among working-age ... and directly integrated into membrane phosopholipids, which dislodges the inflammatory effects of omega-6 ... pressure, LDL cholesterol, hypertension, coronary artery disease, history of stroke. BRIEF ANALYSIS PLAN AND ...- 2014-04-03 14:11 - 3 comments
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Elevated fasting glucose (FG) and insulin (FI) levels are both capturing pathways that lead to type 2 diabetes (T2D) – hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance. To test the role of coding variation ... we used the HumanExome BeadChip in up to 60,564 individuals and followed up findings in 14,494 (T2D) cases and 80,277 ...- 2014-04-02 11:34
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Background: The short and long-term risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD) after infection are poorly understood. ... cohorts with 21-year follow-up: Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS, n=5,888, initial age 65 years or older) ...- 2014-04-02 07:18
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... Histidine is a semi-essential amino acid with anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Few data are available on ... the associations between genetic variants, histidine levels and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in a population-based sample. Methods and ...- 2014-04-15 09:42
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... Circulating omega-3 fatty acids may reduce cardiovascular disease risk, and genetic variants are associated with concentrations of ... : We evaluated interactions between common genetic variants and fatty acid intakes for the outcomes of circulating ...- 2014-04-13 16:04