Background and aims: Aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV), an early indicator of arterial stiffness, predicts cardiovascular mortality risk in adults. Since children with kidney disease have a high risk ...

A set of normal values of three-dimensional echocardiographic right ventricular volume and function was first established in a large Chinese population, which was significantly smaller than those ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a known risk factor for mortality in both healthy and patient populations. There are currently no normative data for short-term measures of HRV. A thorough review of ...

COPD requires regular monitoring through tests like spirometry to assess the condition’s severity and aid in an individualized treatment plan. COPD is a progressive lung condition that makes breathing ...

A urine protein-creatinine ratio (UPCR) test looks for high levels of protein in your urine, which can happen in kidney disease. Results that are higher than average may be a sign of a kidney-related ...

Determinations of 24-hour thyroidal radioiodine uptake were made on 63 euthyroid subjects in 1959 and by the same method on 53 euthyroid subjects in 1967–68. The uptake was 28.6 ± 6.5 per cent in 1959 ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has ...

Because more than 90 percent of circulating cortisol in human serum is protein-bound, changes in the binding proteins can alter measured serum total cortisol concentrations without influencing free ...

The PubMed and Ovid databases were searched using the mesh term "heart rate variability" and: "short""term""short-term" and "five." A second search using 13 terms in conjunction with the previous ...