Resistant hypertension: detection, evaluation, and management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

RM Carey, DA Calhoun, GL Bakris, RD Brook… - …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Resistant hypertension (RH) is defined as above-goal elevated blood pressure (BP) in a
patient despite the concurrent use of 3 antihypertensive drug classes, commonly including a …

Impact of Lipids on Cardiovascular Health: JACC Health Promotion Series

BA Ference, I Graham, L Tokgozoglu… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
People who maintain ideal cardiovascular heath have a low lifetime risk of cardiovascular
disease. Therefore, encouraging people to achieve ideal cardiovascular health represents …

2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of …

B Ibanez, S James, S Agewall, MJ Antunes… - European heart …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Surveys and registries are needed to verify that real-life daily practice is in keeping with what
is recommended in the guidelines, thus completing the loop between clinical research …

Multisociety consensus quality improvement revised consensus statement for endovascular therapy of acute ischemic stroke

D Sacks, B Baxter, BCV Campbell… - … journal of stroke, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Endovascular therapy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke in selected patients has recently been
proven effective in several clinical trials, and the widespread adoption of thrombectomy into …

The importance of comorbidities in ischemic stroke: Impact of hypertension on the cerebral circulation

MJ Cipolla, DS Liebeskind… - Journal of Cerebral Blood …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Comorbidities are a hallmark of stroke that both increase the incidence of stroke and worsen
outcome. Hypertension is prevalent in the stroke population and the most important …

3D bioprinting of functional tissue models for personalized drug screening and in vitro disease modeling

X Ma, J Liu, W Zhu, M Tang, N Lawrence, C Yu… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D bioprinting is emerging as a promising technology for fabricating complex tissue
constructs with tailored biological components and mechanical properties. Recent advances …

Protein biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the community

JE Ho, A Lyass, P Courchesne, G Chen… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background The discovery of novel and highly predictive biomarkers of cardiovascular
disease (CVD) has the potential to improve risk‐stratification methods and may be …

Blood pressure measurement in SPRINT (systolic blood pressure intervention trial)

KC Johnson, PK Whelton, WC Cushman, JA Cutler… - …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Recent publications have stated that the blood pressure (BP) measurement technique used
in SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial) was unattended. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting thromboembolic and bleeding event risk in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: a systematic review

ED Borre, A Goode, G Raitz, B Shah… - Thrombosis and …, 2018 - thieme-connect.com
Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia that increases the risk of
stroke. Medical therapy for decreasing stroke risk involves anticoagulation, which may …

Vascular smooth muscle remodeling in conductive and resistance arteries in hypertension

IAM Brown, L Diederich, ME Good… - … , and vascular biology, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide and accounts for> 17.3
million deaths per year, with an estimated increase in incidence to 23.6 million by 2030 …