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There are conflicting data as to whether general or abdominal obesity is a better predictor of cardiovascular risk. This cross-sectional study involved 4,573 subjects aged 30 to 74 yr who...
There have been many epidemiological researches of chronic kidney disease (CKD), accompanied by an increase in the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD). However, as far as we know, little...
National Cholesterol Treatment Guidelines are different according to race and country, and change year by year, because the distribution of lipid and lipoprotein levels are different by genetic background,...
BACKGROUND: Several reports have documented that Asians have a strong tendency to develop insulin resistance. The aims of this study were to evaluate the relative effects of insulin resistance and...
PURPOSE: Effective myocardial reperfusion after primary PCI for an AMI in lesions with a thrombus is limited by distal embolization and the slow/no reflow phenomenon. We evaluated the efficacy of...