cardiovascular

Abstract Many individuals who had COVID-19 develop detrimental persistent symptoms; a condition known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). Despite the elevated risk of cardiovascular disease following COVID-19, limited studies have examined vascular function in PASC with equivocal results...

Full title: Assessment of Adult Patients with Long COVID Manifestations Suspected as Cardiovascular: A Single-Center Experience Abstract Background: Persistent symptoms affect a subset of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors. Some of these may be cardiovascular (CV)-related...

Genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep in human health and disease Lane JM, Qian J, Mignot E, Redline S, Scheer FAJL, Saxena R Circadian rhythms and sleep are fundamental biological processes integral to human health. Their disruption is associated with detrimental physiological consequences...

Full title: Long COVID and the cardiovascular system – elucidating causes and cellular mechanisms in order to develop targeted diagnostic and therapeutic strategies: A joint Scientific Statement of the ESC Working Groups on Cellular Biology of the Heart and Myocardial & Pericardial Diseases...

Nitric oxide signalling in cardiovascular health and disease Charlotte Farah, Lauriane Y. M. Michel, Jean-Luc Balligand Abstract Nitric oxide (NO) signalling has pleiotropic roles in biology and a crucial function in cardiovascular homeostasis. Tremendous knowledge has been accumulated on the...

Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Consensus Guidance Statement on the Assessment and Treatment of Cardiovascular Complications in Patients with Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV- 2 Infection (PASC) American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation PDF Jonathan Whiteson, MD, Department of...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of acute cycling on blood pressure (BP), arterial function, and heart rate variability (HRV) in men living with HIV (MLHIV) using combined antiretroviral therapy (cART). Methods: Twelve MLHIV (48.7 ± 9.2 years; 25.2 ± 2.8 kg m–2) and 13...

Full title: Cardiovascular risk assessment using ASCVD risk score in fibromyalgia: a single-centre, retrospective study using "traditional" case control methodology and "novel" machine learning. Abstract Background In autoimmune inflammatory rheumatological diseases, routine cardiovascular risk...

Abstract With the ongoing distribution of the coronavirus disease (COVID) vaccines, the pandemic of our age is ending, leaving the world to deal with its well-documented aftereffects. Long COVID comprises a variety of symptoms, of which the neurological component prevails. The most permeating...

Trigger warning: exercise (I suggest watching from 2:07 to 10:57, then 12:05 to 12:30.) This video from NHS cardiologist Dr Rohin Francis presents cardiovascular exercise testing in patients with heart failure (HF). The purpose is to assess whether they require a heart transplant. Shown in...

Highlights • ME/CFS, a clinical entity of unknown etiology characterized by PEM, is easily diagnosed when following available guidelines. • Patients with ME/CFS typically have small hearts, low stroke volume, and low total blood volume, and some have OI. • More studies are needed to understand...

Full title: Prevalence of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, autonomic, and allergic manifestations in hospitalized patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a case-control study https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rheumatology/keaa926/6067343

A note for any of us who notice cardiac symptoms being called out as 'serious' and caused by covid. It may be worth calling attentions to these symptoms being part of CFS too, and are another reason to suspect that the various experiences of the 'long tail' of covid may 'just' be CFS, and...

Does anyone notice that the veins in their arms collapse for periods of time throughout the day? There's also periods when the veins are absolutely huge. I've been intending to take notice of exactly when this happens but so far I haven't managed to, although I suspect eating may have something...

"What Ails a Woman’s Heart. The more we look, the more we find sex differences in cardiovascular disease." by Claudia Wallis, Scientific American Jan 2019 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-ails-a-womans-heart/

Open access at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12852

"Scientists at the University of Nottingham are enlisting the help of 'pillownauts' to push back the boundaries of space travel in a new study to examine a potentially serious adverse effect of weightlessness on the human body. The 3-day bed rest study is being carried out in Nottingham in...

Kegan J. Moneghetti, Mehdi Skhiri, Kévin Contrepois, Yukari Kobayashi, Holden Maecker, Mark Davis, Michael Snyder, François Haddad & Jose G. Montoya https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20941-w