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... (CABG) is a successful treatment for coronary artery disease increasingly used in elderly patients. However, ... We conducted a systematic review, prospective study and meta-analyses to investigate the long-term association ... cohort study and meta-analyses Setting: The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) data were collected from four US ...- 2014-08-29 02:57 - 7 comments
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... SNPs risk score analysis pathway-based analysis medicare health care costs health care spending Introduction Growing ... of the public health care payers such as Medicare and Medicaid but its highly-skewed distribution also places ... scores include those for diabetes, obesity, hypertension, lipids, coronary artery disease, and cancer. SNPs not ...- 2014-08-18 18:06 - 5 comments
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... such factors; we hypothesized that markers of inflammation and frailty, which may be markers of vulnerability, would be ... with incident ischemic strokes from the Cardiovascular Health Study, we evaluated the association of several risk ... associated mortality and have found previous cardiovascular disease, higher systolic blood pressure, older age, ...- 2014-08-09 15:25 - 4 comments
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kidney Introduction [Rationale and background]: Galectin-3 and soluble ST2 (sST2) are ... cardiac injury possibly contributes to progressive kidney disease. Specifically, a recent analysis of data from CHS ... CVD (MI, CAGB, PCI, stroke), prevalent HF, diabetes, lipids, lipid medication use, eGFR level, troponin T, ...- 2014-08-22 15:53 - 3 comments
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... of aging-related phenotypes, such as dementia, disability, and frailty, participants are typically assessed at ... [2], as well as programs to encourage positive mental health [3]. Identification of individuals at high risk of ... has been done to study risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Therefore, a main objective of our project is to ...- 2014-08-25 17:57 - 3 comments
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... thromboembolism (VTE) but results are inconsistent. Purpose and Study Selection: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies to quantify the association between DM and VTE (deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism). Data ...- 2014-08-27 12:02 - 6 comments
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race ANP Introduction [Rationale and background] Natriuretic peptides (NP) are hormones with ... and aim to test this hypothesis in the Cardiovascular Health Study, which is a large, prospective observational ... and other traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, have significantly lower levels of circulating ...- 2014-08-21 20:37 - 3 comments
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... Associations between soluble IL-2Rα (sIL-2Rα) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) have not been widely studied and little is ... 766 African-American (AA) adults from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) and examined associations with baseline ...- 2014-08-13 08:12 - 1 comment
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... variants in 1393 persons with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD) and 8141 cognitively intact controls from four population-based cohorts from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) ...- 2014-08-15 12:49
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... the most significant genetic risk factor for of Alzheimer disease (AD) and may mask effects of other loci. Methods We re-analyzed ... Project (IGAP) Consortium in APOE ε4+ (10,246 cases and 11,924 controls) and APOE ε4- (7,231 cases and 19,603 ...- 2014-08-08 12:01