Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "cardiology"

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    • Air Pollution and ST-Segment Depression in Elderly Subjects 

      MacCallum, Gail; Canner, Marina J.; Gold, Diane R.; Litonjua, Augusto Ampil; Zanobetti, Antonella; Coull, Brent Andrew; Schwartz, Joel David; Verrier, Richard Leonard; Nearing, Bruce David; Suh MacIntosh, Helen H.; Stone, Peter Howard (National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005)
      Increased levels of daily ambient particle pollution have been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity. Black carbon (BC) is a measure of the traffic-related component of particles. We investigated ...

    • Discharge β-Blocker Use and Race after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 

      O’Neal, Wesley T.; Efird, Jimmy T.; Davies, Stephen W.; O’Neal, Jason B.; Griffin, William F.; Ferguson, T. Bruce; Chitwood, W. Randolph; Kypson, Alan P. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)
      Introduction: The use of discharge β-blockers after cardiac surgery is associated with a long-term mortality benefit. β-Blockers have been suggested to be less effective in black cardiovascular patients compared with whites. ...

    • Gene Expression Analysis of Zebrafish Heart Regeneration 

      Lien, Ching-Ling; Schebesta, Michael; Makino, Shinji; Weber, Gerhard Johannes; Keating, Mark T. (Public Library of Science, 2006)
      Mammalian hearts cannot regenerate. In contrast, zebrafish hearts regenerate even when up to 20% of the ventricle is amputated. The mechanism of zebrafish heart regeneration is not understood. To systematically characterize ...

    • Impact of cyclooxygenase inhibitors in the women's health initiative hormone trials: secondary analysis of a randomized trial 

      Hsia, Judith; Kuller, Lewis; Pettinger, Mary; Choe, John H; Limacher, Marian; Oberman, Albert; Ockene, Judith; O'Sullivan, Mary Jo; Robinson, Jennifer G; Manson, JoAnn Elisabeth; Langer, Robert D. (Public Library of Science, 2006)
      Objectives: We evaluated the hypothesis that cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor use might have counteracted a beneficial effect of postmenopausal hormone therapy, and account for the absence of cardioprotection in the Women's ...