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Physical exercise and Sport activities in patients with and without coronary heart disease
2016
Background: The quantity and intensity of physical activity required for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease remain unclear. Therefore, we examined the association between physical activity and coronary risk. Methods: We studied 100 patients with chest pain, 78 men and 22 women, not older than 65 years, admitted to a coronary care unit. Patients were subdivided in 3 groups: the first group included patients with acute myocardial infarction, the second group included patients with chronic heart disease, the third included patients with non-ischemic chest-pain. A questionnaire on daily physical activity was filled by each patient. Results: A significantly higher percentage of pat…
Prediction of mortality rate in acute type A dissection: the German Registry for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection score.
2020
Abstract OBJECTIVES The goal was to develop a scoring system to predict the 30-day mortality rate for patients undergoing surgery for acute type A aortic dissection on the basis of the German Registry for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection (GERAADA) data set and to provide a Web-based application for standard use. METHODS A total of 2537 patients enrolled in GERAADA who underwent surgery between 2006 and 2015 were analysed. Variable selection was performed using the R-package FAMoS. The robustness of the results was confirmed via the bootstrap procedure. The coefficients of the final model were used to calculate the risk score in a Web-based application. RESULTS Age [odds ratio (OR) 1.018, 95% …
An Original Risk Score to Predict Early Major Bleeding in Acute Pulmonary Embolism
2021
Background Improved prediction of the risk of early major bleeding in pulmonary embolism (PE) is needed to optimize acute management. Research Question Does a simple scoring system predict early major bleeding in acute PE patients, identifying patients with either high or low probability of early major bleeding? Study Design and Methods From a multicenter prospective registry including 2,754 patients, we performed post hoc multivariable logistic regression analysis to build a risk score to predict early (up to hospital discharge) major bleeding events. We validated the endpoint model internally, using bootstrapping in the derivation dataset by sampling with replacement for 500 iterations. P…
La mediatització dels escàndols polítics: Els "casos Blasco"
2020
L’escàndol és un concepte instaurat en la centralitat del sistema polític. L’augment de casos de corrupció política o en el seu defecte l’augment de la percepció dels mateixos traduïts en escàndols polítics centrats en la qüestió reputacional ha de tenir uns motius concrets que l’expliquen. Què fa que estos casos apareguen i es mediatitzen? Quins són els seus condicionants i les seues conseqüències? Existeix una rutina de producció mediàtica estable dels escàndols polítics? Quins elements condicionen els seus efectes? Com afecta tot això a l’estructura comunicativa, al sistema polític i a tots els seus representants? Les causes i conseqüències dels escàndols polítics mediats d’ara són les m…
Statins and peripheral arterial disease: effects on claudication, disease progression, and prevention of cardiovascular events.
2006
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) of the lower limbs is the third most important site of atherosclerotic disease alongside coronary heart disease (CHD) and cerebrovascular disease (CVD). Best medical treatment is beneficial even in patients who eventually need invasive treatment, as the safety, immediate success, and durability of intervention is greatly improved in patients who adhere to best medical treatment. In recent years, a number of studies have suggested that the ACE-inhibitor ramipril and different statins, together with antiplatelet drugs, reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in PAD. Patients with PAD are really a category of patients with a very high cardiovascular risk…
Piloting Regional Innovation or Much Ado about Nothing?—Evaluating the R&D Policy Initiative of Nordland, Norway
2014
AbstractThis article evaluates the results of almost a decade of experience with regional R&D development and implementation for enhanced innovation in the county of Nordland, Norway. Following a 2002 national devolution initiative, the county of Nordland was the first among Norwegian counties to coin and implement a distinct R&D policy for business-related innovation and development. This was done by setting up a broad regional partnership, framing a regional strategy and by coordinating substantial budgetary resources to implement the strategy. The evaluation describes the results of this process as ambiguous. This article looks at the process from three perspectives. First, we look at th…
Troponin I and cardiovascular risk prediction in the general population: the BiomarCaRE consortium
2016
AIMS: Our aims were to evaluate the distribution of troponin I concentrations in population cohorts across Europe, to characterize the association with cardiovascular outcomes, to determine the predictive value beyond the variables used in the ESC SCORE, to test a potentially clinically relevant cut-off value, and to evaluate the improved eligibility for statin therapy based on elevated troponin I concentrations retrospectively.METHODS AND RESULTS: Based on the Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe (BiomarCaRE) project, we analysed individual level data from 10 prospective population-based studies including 74 738 participants. We investigated the value of adding troponin …
Main Findings and Discussion
2016
This chapter ‘connects the dots’ between the outcomes of the CINHEKS study and relates these to contemporary higher education research practice and policy. This conclusion summarizes our main theoretical and conceptual findings, central empirical results and methodological advances in a way that illuminates the key issues and questions brought into view by the CINHEKS study, as a whole. Our findings are critically contextualized in terms of general challenges in higher education studies, which borrow far more than we generate, especially in terms of theory, conceptual problematization, methodology and methods. Theoretically, the analytical synthesis of network knowledge society is highlight…
Análisis comparativo de las funciones de predicción del riesgo cardiovascular SCORE y Framingham y sus versiones calibradas, SCORE calibrada y REGIDO…
2009
Introducción: Las recomendaciones del ATPIII y las SSCC europeas en prevención primaria cardiovascular aconsejan para la estimación del riesgo individual las funciones de Framingham y SCORE respectivamente. Ambas disponen de versiones calibradas para la población española. Todas, excepto Framingham(ATPIII), han sido derivadas para aplicarlas en un rango de edad limitado. Por otra parte, ninguna de estas funciones predice el riesgo cardiovascular total, ya que SCORE y SCORE calibrada sólo estima el riesgo de muerte y Framingham(ATPIII) y REGICOR el riesgo coronario. Sin embargo todas las medidas preventivas van dirigidas a la prevención de la enfermedad cardiovascular globalmente y las funci…
On Aggregation of Risk Levels Using T-Conorms
2019
This paper deals with solutions for numeric evaluation of risks containing several different risk factors assessed by experts. The proposed methods can be used to assess the risks and obtain the risk scores in different industries, including financial industry, but they are also suitable for assessing risks in other areas, e.g. project management. While risk is usually considered as a function of probability and impact with strong quantitative background, there are many practical cases when only qualitative risk assessment based on expert opinions can be used. At the same time there are still requirements and needs for applying numerical values and mathematical models to such qualitative as…