BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that exposures to air pollution and nonoptimal temperatures are associated with a ...

BACKGROUND: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is substantially influenced by genetic factors. Sarcomere function is intricately associated with other organelles, particularly the reciprocal regulation ...

A 46-year-old woman with type 1 myotonic dystrophy (DM1) presented to the emergency department with dyspnea and palpitations.

Stroke is a disease of disparities, with tremendous racial and ethnic inequities in incidence, prevalence, treatment, and outcomes. The accumulating literature on the relationship between stroke and ...

COVID-19 is characterized by dysregulated thrombosis and coagulation that can increase mortality in patients. Platelets are fast responders to pathogen presence, alerting the surrounding immune cells ...

The American Heart Association recently published guidelines on how to clinically identify and categorize individuals with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome. The extent to which CKM ...

Values are mean±SD unless otherwise indicated. Component definitions are shown in Table S1. BMI indicates body mass index; BP, blood pressure; DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension; PA, ...

The past several decades have seen rapid advances in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, enabled by technological breakthroughs in imaging, genomics, and physiological ...

This single-center, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled efficacy trial tested the hypothesis that anodal tDCS augments language therapy in subacute aphasia. Secondarily, we compared the effect ...

Desmosomal gene variants (DGVs) have been associated with a diverse spectrum of phenotypic manifestations within arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, but data on genotype-specific outcomes are lacking. We ...

The mineralocorticoid receptor plays a significant role in the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and associated cardiovascular complications. Classic steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor ...