Shau, Wen-Yi Lai, Chao-Lun Huang, Shih-Ting Chen, Shu-Ting Li, Jim Z Fung, Selwyn Tse, Vicki C Lai, Mei-Shu
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Heart Asia
Background Evidence and treatment guidelines support the use of statins in patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) for secondary prevention of subsequent cardiovascular (CV) event. However, treatment adherence and persistence are still a concern. Methods We constructed a retrospective population-based cohort of pati...
Klimis, Harry Chow, Clara K
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Heart Asia
Yamashita, Akira Kurosaki, Hisanori Takada, Kohei Tanaka, Yoshio Hamada, Yoshitaka Ishita, Tetsuya Kubo, Minoru Inaba, Hideo
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Heart Asia
Objective To investigate the association of school hours with outcomes of schoolchildren with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods From the 2005–2014 nationwide databases, we extracted the data for 1660 schoolchildren (6–17 years) with bystander-witnessed OHCA. Univariate analyses followed by propensity-matching procedures and stepwise lo...
Li, Ka Hou Christien Sang, Tian Chan, Cheng Gong, Mengqi Liu, Yingzhi Jesuthasan, Aaron Li, Guangping Liu, Tong Lam, Michael H S Wu, William KK
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Heart Asia
Objectives This meta-analysis and systematic review seeks to compare both characteristic parameters and procedural outcomes of atrial fibrillation (AF) catheter ablation in patients under general anaesthesia (GA)/deep sedation and mild/moderate sedation. Background Catheter ablation has become a widely applied intervention for treating symptomatic ...
Nakagawa, Takashi Hara, Hisao Yamamoto, Masaya Matsushita, Yumi Hiroi, Yukio
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Objective Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation could progress to permanent atrial fibrillation. Whether the transmitral inflow waves could be used to predict progression from paroxysmal atrial fibrillation to permanent atrial fibrillation is unknown. Therefore, we investigated the association between the transmitral inflow waves and progression of paroxy...
Ni, Zhao Dardas, Latefa Wu, Bei Shaw, Ryan
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Heart Asia
In China, poor cardioprotective medication adherence is a key reason for the high mortality rate of coronary heart disease (CHD). The aims of this systematic review are to (1) describe and synthesise factors that influence medication adherence among Chinese people with CHD, (2) evaluate the current status of intervention studies, and (3) discuss di...
Remenyi, Bo Carapetis, Jonathan Stirling, John W Ferreira, Beatrice Kumar, Krishnan Lawrenson, John Marijon, Eloi Mirabel, Mariana Mocumbi, A O Mota, Cleonice
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Heart Asia
Different definitions have been used for screening for rheumatic heart disease (RHD). This led to the development of the 2012 evidence-based World Heart Federation (WHF) echocardiographic criteria. The objective of this study is to determine the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability and agreement in differentiating no RHD from mild RHD using the ...
Yamamoto, Takashi Yamashita, Kentaro Miyamae, Kiichi Koyama, Yuichiro Izumimoto, Masataka Kamimura, Yoshihiro Hayakawa, Satoko Mori, Kazutaka Yamada, Takaaki Tomita, Yasushi
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Frailty is a prognostic factor in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, there is no report on the associations between frailty and clinical adverse events in patients with AF taking direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC). The factors related to the occurrence of clinical adverse events are still under discussion. Therefore, we examined the as...
Marantelli, Shannon Hand, Robert Carapetis, Jonathan Beaton, Andrea Wyber, Rosemary
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Heart Asia
Secondary prophylaxis through long-term antibiotic administration is essential to prevent the progression of acute rheumatic fever to rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Benzathine penicillin G (BPG) has been shown to be the most efficacious antibiotic for this purpose; however, adverse events associated with BPG administration have been anecdotally rep...
Paul, Amal Alex, Reginald Jacob, John Roshan Yadav, Bijesh
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Heart Asia
Classic heat stroke is associated with high in-hospital mortality and morbidity. The relation between the ECG findings in heat stroke and the clinical outcomes of these patients has not been studied. The aim of this study was to describe the electrocardiographic features in patients with classic heat stroke and to determine if there is any correlat...