While it is recognised that gender differences exist in Because of the higher cardiac mortality
in men comcardiovascular disease, it has only recently been ap- pared to women until late …

Objectives: While women have lower rates of atherosclerotic disease than men, they are
more likely to suffer cardiac failure following infarction or cardiac surgery, despite typically …

Increased left-ventricular mass is an important cardiovascular risk factor for morbidity and
mortality. Apart from obvious differences in cardiac size, the changes in left-ventricular mass …

Background—The increased incidence of coronary artery disease in men compared with
premenopausal women suggests a detrimental role of male hormones on the cardiovascular …

The recent discovery of heterozygous human mutations that truncate full-length titin (TTN, an
abundant structural, sensory, and signaling filament in muscle) as a common cause of end …

Objectives. This study investigated the effect of age and gender on central arterial
hemodynamic variables derived from noninvasive tonometric carotid pressure waveforms …

Aims Neuregulin‐1 (NRG‐1) plays a critical role in the adaptation of the heart to injury,
inhibiting apoptosis and inducing cardiomyocyte proliferation. We have shown previously …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the respiratory, hemodynamic, and
clinical effects of switching between β1-selective and nonselective beta-blockers in patients …

Objectives: The study was done to determine whether radial artery applanation tonometry
can be used as a noninvasive method of assessing global endothelial function. Background …

Background Frailty is a clinically recognized syndrome of decreased physiological reserve.
The heightened state of vulnerability in these patients confers a greater risk of adverse …