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Objective
The effectiveness of coronary artery calcification (CAC) for risk stratification in obesity, in which imaging is often limited because of a reduced signal to noise ratio, has not been well studied.
Methods
Data from 9334 participants (mean age: 53.3 ± 9.7 years; 67.9% men) with BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 from the CAC Consortium, a retrospectively assembled cohort of individuals with no prior cardiovascular...
Background
The relation between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and prostate cancer is not well established. The objective of this study was to determine whether CRF is associated with prostate cancer screening, incidence, or mortality.
Methods
The Henry Ford Exercise Testing Project is a retrospective cohort study of men aged 40 to 70 years without cancer who underwent physician‐referred exercise...
Background
To the authors’ knowledge, the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and lung and colorectal cancer outcomes is not well established.
Methods
A retrospective cohort study was performed of 49,143 consecutive patients who underwent clinician‐referred exercise stress testing from 1991 through 2009. The patients ranged in age from 40 to 70 years, were without cancer, and were...
BackgroundPericardial effusion in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is an indicator of right heart failure and poor prognosis; its significance on serial transthoracic echocardiograms (TTE) is not clear.
MethodsBaseline and follow‐up TTE (1.0 ± 0.5 years), clinical parameters, and outcomes were studied (N = 200) in consecutive patients with PAH who underwent TTE at our center between October...
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