[PDF] Top 20 Coronary artery calcification and mortality in diabetic patients with proteinuria. 

... strength and novel findings, our study is not without ...diabetics and the study participants were predominantly ...excretion with mortality in our study cohort did not reach ... See full document

... dysfunction, and cystatin C may be a better marker of chronic kidney disease than ...differences in muscle mass, and muscle mass distribution varies across gender and ...differences in ... See full document

... CACSs in the dialysis patients found in our investiga- tion are consistent with those of previous ...ficantly in all patients between the beginning and end of the study, we ... See full document

... X and coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with evidence of myocardial ischemia may be ...difference in coronary calcium detected by electron-beam CT (EBCT) ... See full document

... between patients with syndrome X and CAD. In addition to standard cardiovascular risk factors, CCS determined by EBCT (especially > 117 or = 0) could differentiate between syndrome X ... See full document

... of coronary calcification among moderate- to high-risk Chinese patients and to evaluate the ability of the coronary calcium score determined by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) ... See full document

... CAC and hs-CRP are proven predictors of subclinical atherosclerosis, 2,5 the correlation between CAC and hs-CRP results remains ...hs-CRP in patients with suspected coronary ... See full document

... PVs in the patients with high calcium ...Arterial calcification is a common picture in atherosclerosis found in patients with hypertension, aging, metabolic dis- ... See full document

... CAD and patients with RA has a higher risk for cardiovascular death, RA patients in this cohort had an improvement of in-patient mortality and a reduced length of ... See full document

... associated with decreased vagal activity, is a powerful predictor of overall ...role in determining the clinical manifestations of established atherosclerotic lesions and has shown to be suppressed ... See full document

... sampled patients, 356 (3.6%) were discharged after death. Those patients treated by low-volume (1–50 cases) surgeons had significantly higher mortality rates than those treated by medium-volume ... See full document

... to mortality alone would greatly underestimate the effect of volume or, worse, fail to detect long-term outcome differ- ences across volume ...long-term mortality versus provider volume 11 contradicts our ... See full document

... The CCSs of each of the four major coronary arteries were highest in patients with significant CAD (n=43), followed by patients with insignificant CAD (n=5), patients with syndrome X ([r] ... See full document

... behavior, and some types of unhealthy choices because of the inherent shortcomings of the NHIRD ...[28], and a higher proportion of smokers among cervical cancer patients has been observed ...well, ... See full document

... In order to further study the preferred orientation of the acetylide ligand over the triangular face of the trinuclear mixed-metal complexes, we have carried out the [r] ... See full document

... between coronary artery disease (CAD) risk and cervical ...728 patients with cervical ...frequency-matched with 4 participants by age, index-month, and index-year from the ... See full document

... similar in both RT and non-RT groups ...null, and should not be a valid argument for the observed positive association of RT with incidence of ... See full document

... CONCLUSION: Patients with coronary artery disease have lower serum and pericardial fluid levels of endostatin and higher serum levels of VEGF. Serum level VEGF, but not endostatin, is[r] ... See full document

... lymphadenopathy, and (5) changes in the lips or oral cavity ...All patients received IVIG treatment and had regular echocardiographic examinations during the 1-year ...onset, and once ... See full document

... CAL in KD patients have been proposed, none have been validated across different ...variations in ELISA testing. The ELISA technique pro- vides high sensitivity and specificity without ... See full document