Gender differences in cardiovascular disease and comorbid depression.

AM Möller-Leimkühler - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Although gender is increasingly perceived as a key determinant in health and illness,
systematic gender studies in medicine are still lacking. For a long time, cardiovascular …

The pathophysiology and burden of restenosis

WS Weintraub - The American journal of cardiology, 2007 - Elsevier
The introduction of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) revolutionized
the surgical treatment of coronary artery disease. However, despite increased surgical …

Ethnic-specific prevalence of peripheral arterial disease in the United States

MA Allison, E Ho, JO Denenberg, RD Langer… - American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Individuals diagnosed with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) are at
increased risk for future functional limitations as well as cardiovascular morbidity and …

Infrared laser therapy for ischemic stroke: a new treatment strategy: results of the NeuroThera Effectiveness and Safety Trial-1 (NEST-1)

Y Lampl, JA Zivin, M Fisher, R Lew, L Welin, B Dahlof… - Stroke, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—The NeuroThera Effectiveness and Safety Trial-1 (NEST-1)
study evaluated the safety and preliminary effectiveness of the NeuroThera Laser System in …

Association between performance measures and clinical outcomes for patients hospitalized with heart failure

GC Fonarow, WT Abraham, NM Albert, WG Stough… - Jama, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
ContextAssessment of quality of care in heart failure has focused on the development and
use of process-based performance measures, with the presumption that these processes …

Feasibility of using the Sony PlayStation 2 gaming platform for an individual poststroke: a case report

S Flynn, P Palma, A Bender - Journal of neurologic physical …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Feasibility of Using the Sony PlayStation 2 Gaming Platform... : Journal of Neurologic Physical
Therapy Feasibility of Using the Sony PlayStation 2 Gaming Platform for an Individual Poststroke …

Changing motor synergies in chronic stroke

L Dipietro, HI Krebs, SE Fasoli… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Synergies are thought to be the building blocks of vertebrate movements. The inability to
execute synergies in properly timed and graded fashion precludes adequate functional …

Premature cardiovascular disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation

A Tichelli, C Bucher, A Rovó, G Stussi… - Blood, The Journal …, 2007 - ashpublications.org
We assessed incidence and risk factors of cardiovascular events in 265 patients undergoing
allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) between 1980 and 2000 and …

Coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis in mice: a model of autoimmune disease for studying immunotoxicity

DL Fairweather, NR Rose - Methods, 2007 - Elsevier
Excellent animal models are available for virus-induced and autoimmune heart disease that
are remarkably similar to human disease. Developing good animal models for heart disease …

Cutting edge: cross-regulation by TLR4 and T cell Ig mucin-3 determines sex differences in inflammatory heart disease

S Frisancho-Kiss, SE Davis, JF Nyland… - The Journal of …, 2007 - journals.aai.org
Recent clinical studies have reinforced the importance of sex-related differences in the
pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases, with an increased incidence and mortality in men …