June 27, 2011 (Cleveland, Ohio) — Nearly two-thirds of outpatients with a normal LVEF when referred for echocardiography also had LV diastolic dysfunction, and moderate or severe diastolic dysfunction ...

Diastolic dysfunction in the presence of impaired systolic dysfunction is associated with mortality, but a new study has found that diastolic dysfunction in patients with normal systolic function is ...

Obesity is a major public health epidemic and is associated with increased risk of heart failure and mortality. We evaluated the impact of body mass index (BMI) on the prevalence of diastolic ...

Our female subjects were slightly older than the male subjects (72.8 ± 7 vs. 67.4 ± 3.3 years of age, p = 0.002) ( Table II). One half of our male subjects had normal diastolic function, whereas mild ...

This study examined 115 Caucasian patients with primary hypertension and LV hypertrophy, verified with echocardiography, who subsequently took part in the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular ...

Recently, while preparing an updated presentation to the Saint Louis University cardiology fellows on "diastolic dysfunction," the Skeptical Cardiologist came across a document entitled "What Does ...

A follow-up of participants in a heart function study finds that the prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (left ventricular filling [with blood] is abnormal and is accompanied by ...

While cardiovascular disease (CVD) is more common in young men than in young women, the risk of CVD increases for postmenopausal women, making them nearly as susceptible as men. Menopause typically ...

What are the grades of diastolic dysfunction measured by echocardiography, and what are the clinical ramifications of each? Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the left ventricular myocardium is ...

Blood pressure consists of two numbers. Systolic pressure, the force exerted on blood vessels when the heart beats, is the upper number. Diastolic pressure, the force exerted when the heart is at rest ...

Aim Differentiating physiological cardiac hypertrophy from pathology is challenging when the athlete presents with extreme anthropometry. While upper normal limits exist for maximal left ventricular ...

MR angiograms (top row) of the right coronary arteries in two persons living with HIV (PLWH) show location of cross-section (dotted lines) of coronary vessel wall image (bottom row) and the ...