Background: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an important cause of myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death predominantly among women. Previously considered a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome, recent increase in awareness and use of intracoronary imagi…
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Background: Diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the Emergency Department (ED) is a topical and contentious issue. Current diagnostic techniques rely on hospital admission for troponin testing. Only a minority of those admitted prove to have ACS while unacceptable prop…
Survival of stem cells following transplantation in the infarcted myocardium is a critical issue for the cell-based therapy and preconditioning of stem cells is one of the most powerful stimulus for cytoprotection. The heart and cardiac cells are intrinsically exposed to EleS du…
We have developed a series of novel techniques, adapted from the field of tumor biology, to quantify vascular structure and function and to explore the role of Angiotensin (Ang) II receptor AT1 in cardiac remodeling post myocardial infarction (MI). We examined the scar neovascul…
Heart failure is a major health problem of epidemic proportions. The upregulated expression of endothelial cell adhesion molecules in certain regions of the heart after a myocardial infarction (MI) provides a potential avenue for selectively targeting drugs to inflamed tissue. L…
Biological and epidemiological evidence supports a role for high-chronic arsenic exposure in diabetes and atherosclerosis development. At low-chronic exposure the role is unknown. The objective of this dissertation was to investigate the association of arsenic with diabetes and …
Evidence shows that omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 FAs) may help in preventing heart disease. The purposes of this current study were to investigate the consumption and the food sources of n-3 FA in two groups of elderly men living in different geographic location (coastal and interna…
Death from myocardial infarction and progressive coronary disease is still the number one killer for men and women in the United States and other developed nations. The role of the cardiologist is to efficiently fix the "heart pump" and return the patient to his or her role in s…
To study if there is any association of caffeine with mortality secondary to cardiovascular disease in survivors of myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke, we used the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Linked Mortality File. Out of 1083 survivors of s…