Background: Whether there is an association between depression at the time of acute
myocardial infarction and subsequent risk of cardiac complications and death remains …

Importance There is limited evidence on the benefits of sacubitril/valsartan vs broader renin
angiotensin system inhibitor background therapy on surrogate outcome markers, 6-minute …

Background— Less than one-third of smokers hospitalized with an acute coronary syndrome
(ACS) remain abstinent following discharge. We assessed whether varenicline, begun in-…

BACKGROUND: Patients who continue to smoke after acute coronary syndrome are at
increased risk of reinfarction and death. We previously found use of varenicline to increase …

Objective To evaluate the feasibility, accuracy and reproducibility of a new and simple
method for determining ejection fraction by Doppler echocardiography. This method should …

Background Previous studies have compared the treatment and outcome of patients with
acute myocardial infarction (AMI) admitted at sites with and without availability of angiography. …

The antihypertensive efficacy of sustained-release isradipine administered once daily
compared to the immediate-release formulation administered twice daily was assessed by …

We have recently shown that a high glucose (HG) concentration raised intestinal cholesterol
(CHOL) transport and metabolism in intestinal epithelial cells. The objective of the present …

The objective of surgical scrubbing is to reduce the bioburden on the hands of the surgical
team in hope that if gloves are punctured or torn, the number of bacteria released at the …

In contrast to mammalian ciliary neurotrophic factors (CNTFs), chick CNTF is secreted,
although it lacks an N-terminal signal. We determined that a 52 aa region of chick CNTF …