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Increased arterial stiffness and carotid artery Intima-Media Thickness (IMT) are associated with atherosclerosis and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), but their correlation with the anatomic extent of atherosclerosis in hypertensive patients is not completely known. We aim to evaluate whether Pulse Wave...

Aim: To evaluate vascular function and structure in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods: 58 MCI and 22 controls (age 74±5vs75±4years, men 45vs59% p=ns) were recruited. Endothelial function in the brachial artery (BA) was studied by flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and response to glyceryl...

Background: The relationship between Blood Pressure (BP) and cardiovascular risk is continuous. Here, we examined haemodynamic characteristics across a range of BP categories, to determine kihaemodynamic mechanisms associated with early elevations of BP and whether these differ by gender. Methods: 2618...

Background: Systemic Lupus Erithematosus (SLE) is associated with increased cardiovascular risk and early vascular aging. The aim of the study was to evaluate aortic and carotid stiffness, central blood pressure (BP) and wave reflection in women with SLE, in order to identify whether different vascular...

Enabling machines to read like human beings has been a hot issue for more than fifty years. A novel offline degraded numeral recognition method (DNRBM) based on the measure of medium truth degree (MMTD) is proposed in this paper to identify segmented degraded numeral characters in gray images. It consists...

Location-based services have become important in social networking, mobile applications, advertising, traffic monitoring, and many other domains. The growth of location sensing devices has led to the vast generation of dynamic spatial-temporal data in the form of moving object trajectories which can...

We consider the general properties of the replicator dynamical system from the stanpoint of its evolution and stability. Vector field analysis as well as spectral properties of such system has been studied. A Lyaponuv function for the investigation of the evolution of the system has been proposed. The...

Introduction: Deaths, defaults, relapses, and treatment failures have made the control of TB difficult across the globe. Methodology: This study is a record-based follow-up of a cohort of patients registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program in the year 2014 in Wardha Tuberculosis...

Background: CHD, stroke and cancers are the major causes of mortality in the UK and are responsible for significant amounts of morbidity and healthcare costs. This study examines the proportion of CHD, stroke and cancer owing to specific risk factors in Herefordshire, UK. It estimates the population...

Agricultural weather index insurance overcomes the technology and management problems existing in traditional agricultural insurance, and can effectively transfer agricultural meteorological disasters risk, providing strong guarantee for farmers with small production scale and scattered land. Although...

Background: The aim of this study was to assess resistance artery function in short-term chronic cigarette smokers and non-smoking control subjects. Methods: Reactive hyperemia was assessed in 19 cigarette smokers (age 23±1 years) and 19 non-smokers (age 23±1 years). Results: Cigarette smokers demonstrated...

Background and Aim: The classification system is important in assessing the severity of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) and making the treatment decision. However, classification systems may not be sufficient and scoring systems developed to predict cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events can also...

K-means clustering algorithms of wireless sensor networks are potential solutions that prolong the network lifetime. However, limitations hamper these algorithms, where they depend on a deterministic K-value and random centroids to cluster their networks. But, a bad choice of the K-value and centroid...

A simple technique is identified to manufacture solvable nonlinear dynamical systems, and in particular three classes whose generic solutions are, respectively, isochronous, multi-periodic, or asymptotically isochronous.

Lineargrowth process with immigration and emigration is the general model in the study of population in biological and ecological systems, and their transient analysis is the most important factor in the understanding of the structural behavior of such systems. The probability-generating function π(z,...

Objectives: Shorter leukocyte telomere length is associated with cardiovascular risk and decreased nitric oxide bioavailability. Aforementioned are also linked with increased oxidative stress and inflammation. 1,2 Telomere length, NO metabolites (NOx), blood pressure, oxidative stress and inflammation...

Background: Increased arterial stiffness has been established in patients with COPD (1). However, the changes in aortic stiffness over time and contributing factors are still unknown. We hypothesise that there would be a significant change in aortic stiffness in COPD over one year. Methods: Aortic pulse...

Background: Lack of physical activity is endemic in office life. Sedentary associated disorders include general adaptation syndrome (‘stress’), musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, metabolic and overweight. These conditions provoke absenteeism. Purpose: We evaluated applicability and replicability of a novel...

Objects: The purpose of this study was to calculate robust quantitative estimates of the predictive value of cardio-ankle vascular index, (CAVI) for future all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients. Subjects and methods: A total of 163 hemodialysis patients (102 males and 61 females, mean age 60±11...

It’s known that ABPM is better in diagnosing hypertension than office-based measurements. Growing evidence supports that cBP is stronger predictor of cardiovascular risk than brachial BP. Dipping status of subjects can be assessed based on night-to-day BP ratio derived from ABPM. However, there is no...

Objectives: To study the association between aortic stiffness, assessed by a single arm cuff oscillometric method, and asymptomatic carotid atherosclerosis (ACA) in a healthy population. Methods: We studied 234 normotensive subjects without known cardiovascular disease or diabetes (125±9/75±8 mm Hg,...

Introduction: Endothelial dysfunction is a characteristic of systemic arterial hypertension and an early marker of atherosclerosis. Aerobic training (AT) is known to improve endothelial function, but little is known about the effects of resistance training (RT) and combined training (CT) on endothelial...

Introduction: Recently, in a cross-sectional study, we have found arterial stiffness assessed as carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) to be reduced in obese children and adolescents. Therefore, we wanted to investigate whether weight-reduction influenced cfPWV independently of blood pressure (BP). Methods:...

Digital health has significant potential in health and health system potential. mHealth is one of the digital solutions, has been one of the focus in Bangladesh for the last couple of years. There is enormous potential in using mHealth within the healthcare sector to ensure healthcare quality, accessibility...

We analyse timing jitter of ultrashort soliton systems taking into account the major higher order effects, namely, intrapulse Raman scattering and third order dispersion and using adiabatic perturbation theory. We obtain an expression for the soliton arrival time variance that depends on the quintic...

Let Vect(R) be the Lie algebra of smooth vector fields on R. The space of symbols Pol(T R) admits a non-trivial deformation (given by differential operators on weighted densities) as a Vect(R)-module that becomes trivial once the action is restricted to sl(2) Vect(R). The deformations of Pol(T R), which...

We obtain a complete invariant characterization of scalar linear (1+1) parabolic equations under equivalence transformations for all the four canonical forms. Firstly semi-invariants under changes of independent and dependent variables and the construction of the relevant transformations that relate...

We construct the free energy associated with the waterbag model of dToda. Also, relations for conserved densities are investigated.

Based on multi-dominance discernibility matrices, a non-incremental algorithm RIDDM and an incremental algorithm INRIDDM are proposed by means of Dominance-based Rough Set Approach. For the incremental algorithm, when a new object arrives, after updating one row or one column in the matrix, we could...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of hesitant fuzzy (implicative) filters and get some results on BE-algebras and show that every hesitant fuzzy implicative filter is a hesitant fuzzy filter but not the converse. Finally, we state and prove the relationship between hesitant fuzzy (implicative) filters...

Establishing indicators oriented towards the creation of a global society to the detriment of new forms of neo-colonialism. In the relations between Developed and Emerging Countries as part of the Global Health Diplomacy, there is a risk that the former can adopt behaviors induced by the financial needs...

Selective eating and hyperphagia are frequently encountered in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They may increase arterial stiffness, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, via excessive sodium intake, nutritional deficiency, and obesity. Therefore, primary prevention of cardiovascular...

This paper presents a new design method for a self-repairing adaptive PID control system. The control system has the adaptive adjusting mechanisms for the PID gains, and also can detect the sensor failure by self-test using the integrator in the PID controller. Hence, for plants with unknown parameters,...

Introduction: Invasive intra-aortic pressures are the gold standard for accurate Blood Pressure (BP) measurement. Hypertension management is guided by brachial cuff BP although its accuracy has been questioned. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that there may be a discrepancy between brachial and invasive...

Background: Exercise is part of antihypertensive therapy. However, little is known about the effect of different types of exercise on hemodynamic variables in systemic arterial hypertension (SAH). Purpose: To evaluate the effect of an aerobic (AE), resistance (RE) and combined (CE) exercise session on...

Objectives: Left ventricular (LV) concentric remodeling predicts all cause and CV mortality in various subsets of patients. Large arteries stiffness determines cardiac afterload and therefore LV remodeling. Since elastic properties of the arterial wall vary along the aortic pathway, we hypothesized that...

Background: High aortic blood pressure (BP) predicts clinical outcomes beyond peripheral BP. Aortic BP may differ according to level of systolic BP (SBP)-amplification but these differences cannot be identified using current non-invasive BP measurement methods. In this study, we sought to determine if...

Type 2 diabetes (DM2) and poor glycemic control adversely affect common carotid intima media thickness (IMT), considered marker of preclinical atherosclerosis. However, studies evaluating the effect of DM2 and glucose levels on IMT did not consider carotid diameter, known to affect IMT. A certain IMT...