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ARTICLE: Critical Flaws in the Validation of the Instant Blood Pressure Smartphone App—A Letter from the App Developers—Reply AUTHORS: Timothy B. Plante, Lawrence J. Appel, Seth S. Martin… Read More »Critical Flaws in the Validation of the Instant Blood Pressure Smartphone App—A Letter from the App Developers—Reply
ARTICLE: Clinical Inferences of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Analysis at Autopsy AUTHORS: Sunil K. Sinha, Barbara Crain, Katie Flickinger, Hugh Calkins, John Rickard, Alan Cheng, Ronald Berger, Gordon Tomaselli, Joseph E. Marine JOURNAL: J… Read More »Clinical Inferences of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Analysis at Autopsy
ARTICLE: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and progression of coronary artery calcium score: a retrospective cohort study AUTHORS: Dong Hyun Sinn, Danbee Kang, Yoosoo Chang, Seungho Ryu, Seonhye Gu, Hyunkyoung Kim, Donghyeong… Read More »Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and progression of coronary artery calcium score: a retrospective cohort study
ARTICLE: Mortality Risk Stratification by Combining BRAF V600E and TERT Promoter Mutations in Papillary ThyroidCancer: Genetic Duet of BRAF and TERT Promoter Mutations in Thyroid… Read More »Mortality Risk Stratification by Combining BRAF V600E and TERT Promoter Mutations in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Genetic Duet of BRAF and TERT Promoter Mutations in Thyroid Cancer Mortality
ARTICLE: Age and Small Airway Imaging Abnormalities in Subjects With and Without Airflow Obstruction in SPIROMICS AUTHORS: Carlos H. Martinez, Alejandro A Diaz, Catherine Meldrum, Jeffrey L. Curtis, Christopher B. Cooper, Cheryl Pirozzi, Richard E. Kanner, Robert Paine, III, Prescott G Woodruff, Eugene R… Read More »Age and Small Airway Imaging Abnormalities in Subjects With and Without Airflow Obstruction in SPIROMICS
ARTICLE: Encouraging Young Women to Move More: Linking Physical Activity in Young Adulthood to Coronary Risk in Women AUTHORS: Erin Michos and Michael Blaha JOURNAL: Circulation. 2016 Jul… Read More »Encouraging Young Women to Move More: Linking Physical Activity in Young Adulthood to Coronary Risk in Women
ARTICLE: SPIROMICS Protocol for Multicenter Quantitative CT to Phenotype the Lungs AUTHORS: Jered P Sieren, John D Newell, Jr., R. Graham Barr, Eugene R Bleecker, Nathan Burnette, Elizabeth E Carretta, David Couper, Jonathan Goldin, Junfeng Guo, MeiLan K Han, Nadia N Hansel, Richard E. Kanner, Ella… Read More »SPIROMICS Protocol for Multicenter Quantitative CT to Phenotype the Lungs
ARTICLE: Vaccinia vaccine–based immunotherapy arrests and reverses established pulmonary fibrosis AUTHORS: Samuel L. Collins, Yee Chan-Li, MinHee Oh, Christine L. Vigeland, Nathachit Limjunyawong, Wayne Mitzner, Jonathan D. Powell and Maureen R. Horton JOURNAL: JCI Insight.… Read More »Vaccinia vaccine–based immunotherapy arrests and reverses established pulmonary fibrosis
ARTICLE: Reducing Health Inequities in the U.S.: Recommendations From the NHLBI's Health Inequities Think Tank Meeting AUTHORS: Uchechukwu K.A. Sampson, Robert M. Kaplan, Richard S. Cooper,… Read More »Reducing Health Inequities in the U.S.: Recommendations From the NHLBI’s Health Inequities Think Tank Meeting
ARTICLE: Risk score overestimation: the impact of individual cardiovascular risk factors and preventive therapies on the performance of the American Heart Association-American College of Cardiology-AtheroscleroticCardiovascular Disease risk score in a modern multi-ethnic cohort. AUTHORS: Andrew Paul DeFilippis, Rebekah Young, John W. McEvoy, Erin D. Michos, Veit Sandfort, Richard A. Kronmal, Robyn L. McClelland, Michael J. Blaha JOURNAL: Eur Heart J. 2016 Jul 19. pii: ehw301. [Epub ahead of… Read More »Risk score overestimation: the impact of individual cardiovascular risk factors and preventive therapies on the performance of the American Heart Association-American College of Cardiology-Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease risk score in a modern multi-ethnic cohort