Metabolic Syndrome

To examine the effects of holiday and weekend admission on in-hospital mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in China.Patients with AMI in 31 tertiary hospitals in Shanxi, China from 2014 to 2017 were...

Loss of cardiomyocytes due to myocardial infarction results in ventricular remodeling which includes non-contractile scar formation, which can lead to heart failure. Stem cell therapy aims to replace the scar tissue with the...

Low testosterone (T) level is considered a marker of poor cardiovascular health. Ten years ago, the Testosterone in Older Men with Mobility Limitations (TOM) trial was discontinued due to a higher number of adverse events in men...

All the latest international guidelines recommend that cardiac troponin (cTn) I and T should be considered the preferred biomarkers for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. However, only in the last 5 years, a progressive...

There has been considerable progress in our understanding of cardiac cell metabolism in health and disease, yet important gaps remain in basic knowledge and its translation to clinical care. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)...

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is now becoming a serious public health threat. Some behaviors risk factors were considered to be associated with MetS and interacted to adversely affect MetS. However, the clustering effects of...

Takotsubo syndrome mimics acute myocardial infarction (MI) at presentation.To explore differences in ECG time-course that could further help distinguish the two conditions.Serial ECG’s (day 0-4) of 27 acute takotsubo and...