Obesity and cardiovascular disease: pathophysiology, evaluation, and effect of weight loss: an update of the 1997 American Heart Association Scientific Statement on …

P Poirier, TD Giles, GA Bray, Y Hong, JS Stern… - Circulation, 2006 - Am Heart Assoc
Obesity is becoming a global epidemic in both children and adults. It is associated with
numerous comorbidities such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), type 2 diabetes …

Carcinoid tumors

MH Kulke, RJ Mayer - New England Journal of Medicine, 1999 - Mass Medical Soc
Carcinoid tumors were first described over 100 years ago by Lubarsch, who found multiple
tumors in the distal ileum of two patients at autopsy. 1 The term karzinoide was used by …

The diagnosis and medical management of advanced neuroendocrine tumors

GA Kaltsas, GM Besser, AB Grossman - Endocrine reviews, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) constitute a heterogeneous group of neoplasms that
originate from endocrine glands such as the pituitary, the parathyroids, and the …

Evidence for Possible Involvement of 5-HT2B Receptors in the Cardiac Valvulopathy Associated With Fenfluramine and Other Serotonergic Medications

RB Rothman, MH Baumann, JE Savage, L Rauser… - Circulation, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Serotonergic medications with various mechanisms of action are used to treat
psychiatric disorders and are being investigated as treatments for drug dependence. The …

Long‐term pharmacotherapy for obesity and overweight

RS Padwal, D Rucker, SK Li… - Cochrane Database …, 2003 - cochranelibrary.com
Long‐term pharmacotherapy for obesity and overweight - Padwal, RS - 2003 | Cochrane
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ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task …

RO Bonow, B Carabello, AC de Leon… - Journal of the American …, 1998 - jacc.org
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) have
long been involved in the joint development of practice guidelines designed to assist …

Serotonin receptors and heart valve disease—it was meant 2B

JD Hutcheson, V Setola, BL Roth… - Pharmacology & …, 2011 - Elsevier
Carcinoid heart disease was one of the first valvular pathologies studied in molecular detail,
and early research identified serotonin produced by oncogenic enterochromaffin cells as the …

Risks factors and prevention of Q fever endocarditis

F Fenollar, PE Fournier, MP Carrieri… - Clinical Infectious …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Coxiella burnetii causes acute and chronic Q fever. To evaluate the risk factors of
development of chronic endocarditis following Q fever and to assess the best preventive …

AGA technical review on obesity

S Klein, T Wadden, HJ Sugerman - Gastroenterology, 2002 - Elsevier
Obesity is a chronic and stigmatizing disease that has become a major health problem in
most industrialized countries because of its high prevalence, causal relationship with …

Long-term pharmacotherapy for overweight and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

R Padwal, SK Li, DCW Lau - International journal of obesity, 2003 - nature.com
CONTEXT: Safe and effective strategies to curb rising obesity prevalence rates are urgently
needed and medications may play a more prominent role in future therapeutic regimens …