These guidelines contain recommendations for pediatric basic and advanced life support, excluding the newborn period, and are based on the best available resuscitation science. The Chain of Survival ...

Atherosclerotic renovascular disease is the most frequent cause of renovascular hypertension and its prevalence increases with age and in specific subset of patients, such as those with end-stage ...

Statins are powerful lipid-lowering drugs that inhibit cholesterol biosynthesis via downregulation of hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme-A reductase. 1 They are largely used in patients with or at risk of ...

Ischemic stroke in younger adults is far less common than that among older adults, yet the underlying pathogeneses and risk factors are more diverse. Approximately 10% to 15% of all strokes occur in ...

Smooth muscle cell migration occurs during vascular development, in response to vascular injury, and during atherogenesis. Many proximal signals and signal transduction pathways activated during ...

Background—MicroRNAs (miRs) are small noncoding RNAs that posttranscriptionally control gene expression. Small-animal studies suggest that miRs might offer novel therapeutic targets in cardiovascular ...

Figure 1. Invasive cardiopulmonary exercise test results. A, Analysis of the case vignette patient’s key functional performance measures demonstrates that the maximum respiratory exchange ratio, which ...

Measurement of blood pressure (BP) in the upright posture is recommended by all hypertension guidelines to detect orthostatic hypotension especially in elderly patients. 1 However, a number of studies ...

Background— The ability to derive human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cell lines by reprogramming of adult fibroblasts with a set of transcription factors offers unique opportunities for basic and ...

In keeping with the scope of the Journal, we hope that many Viewpoints will contain insights from the patient’s perspective along with suggestions on how to improve clinical care and healthcare ...

In this issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Wasfy et al 13 present information that begins to address this gap in knowledge. The authors conducted a comprehensive medical record review ...

More than 400 million years ago, renin first appeared in organisms, 3 and renin is often seen as the first hormone discovered. Shortly before the 20th century, Tigerstedt and Bergman showed that ...