Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases RSS feedThis is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

A Review of Cardiac Rehabilitation Delivery Around the World
Herein, 28 publications describing cardiac rehabilitation (CR) delivery in 50 of the 113 countries globally suspected to deliver it are reviewed, to characterize the nature of services. Government funding was the main source of CR reimbursement in most countries (73%), with private and patient funding in about ¼ of cases. Myocardial infarction patients and those having revascularization were commonly served. The main professions delivering CR were physicians, nurses, and physiotherapists. Programs offered a median of 20 sessions, although this varied. (Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - August 24, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ella Pesah, Marta Supervia, Karam Turk-Adawi, Sherry L. Grace Source Type: research

Heart Failure Transitions of Care: A Pharmacist-Led Post-Discharge Pilot Experience
To perform a pilot evaluation of a pharmacist-led, multidisciplinary transitional care clinic for heart failure (HF) patients. (Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - August 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sherry K. Milfred-LaForest, Julie A. Gee, Adam M. Pugacz, Ileana L. Pi ña, Danielle M. Hoover, Robert C. Wenzell, Aubrey Felton, Eric Guttenberg, Jose Ortiz Source Type: research

A Blueprint for The Post Discharge Clinic Visit After an Admission for Heart Failure
The immense symptom burden and healthcare expenditure associated with heart failure (HF) has resulted in hospital systems, insurance companies, and federal agencies playing close attention to systems of care delivery. In particular, there has been a large extent of focus on decreasing the frequency of HF readmissions through the development of hospital quality measures and the expansion of post discharge services to improve transitions of care from the inpatient to the outpatient setting. The post discharge clinic visit (PDV) serves an important role in this process as it acts as a fulcrum for the multi-disciplinary servic...
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - August 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Aaron Soufer, Ralph J. Riello, Nihar R. Desai, Jeffrey M. Testani, Tariq Ahmad Source Type: research

Heart failure transitions of care: A pharmacist-led post- discharge pilot experience
To perform a pilot evaluation of a pharmacist-led, multidisciplinary transitional care clinic for heart failure (HF) patients. (Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - August 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sherry K. Milfred-LaForest, Julie A. Gee, Adam M. Pugacz, Ileana L. Pi ña, Danielle M. Hoover, Robert C. Wenzell, Aubrey Felton, Eric Guttenberg, Jose Ortiz Source Type: research

Changing our Approach to Stage D Heart Failure
Despite the tremendous progress made in the management of heart failure (HF), many patients reach advanced stages. This paper aims to present a practical approach to the stage D HF patient who is no longer responding to optimal medical therapy. We discuss all available therapies for this patient population. We also offer some important caveats with regard to identification, risk stratification, evaluation and treatment including early patient referral to a center with an advanced HF program. Given the changing landscape of heart transplantation and an impending change in the allocation system, we also intend to engage a di...
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - August 8, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Miriam Becnel, Hector O. Ventura, Selim R. Krim Source Type: research

From Heart Failure to Journal Metrics-Making Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
In this issue of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases (PCVD), my good friend and PCVD Associate Editor, Hector Ventura, MD, along with a major name in the field of heart failure (HF), Ileana Pin ͂a, MD, have put together an excellent issue on the contemporary management of patients with severe HF. Our first issue of 2016 was also devoted to HF,1 with several highly cited papers.2-6 Hopefully Dr. Ventura and Pin͂a’s current HF issue will become a major one to help patients and scientists in the field of advanced HF. (Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - August 3, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Carl J. Lavie Source Type: research

Comprehensive Heart Failure Management
Scope of Heart Failure (Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - August 2, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Hector O. Ventura, Ileana L. Pi ña Source Type: research

Implementation of a Patient Navigator Program to Reduce 30-day Heart Failure Readmission Rate
With increasing awareness to provide personalized care our institution applied the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Patient Navigator Program to identify hospitalized heart failure (HF) patients and improve transitions and outcomes. Utilizing a Navigator Team (NT) composed of a nurse and clinical pharmacist, we delivered evidenced-based interventions and hypothesized this approach would improve identification of HF inpatients and reduce the 30-day all-cause readmission rate. Patients were followed from admission to discharge and received at least one intervention, tailored to the patient ’s health literacy and social...
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - July 22, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Katherine E. Di Palo, Khusbu Patel, Manaf Assafin, Ileana L. Pi ña Source Type: research

Is an Admission for Decompensated Heart Failure Inevitable?
This article examines advancements in pharmacotherapy, medical devices, and health care delivery techniques targeting reductions in HF hospitalizations and evaluates the role and implications of hospitalization in the natural history of HF. (Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - July 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Alexander J. Blood, Ariane M. Fraiche, Zubin J. Eapen Source Type: research

Impact of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training Programs in Coronary Heart Disease
Cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) is the process of developing and maintaining an optimal level of physical, social, and psychological well-being in order to promote recovery from cardiovascular (CV) illness. It is a multi-disciplinary approach encompassing supervised exercise training, patient counseling, education and nutritional guidance that may also enhance quality of life. Beneficial CV effects may include improving coronary heart disease risk factors; particularly exercise capacity, reversing cardiac remodeling, and favorably modifying metabolism and systemic oxygen transport. (Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - July 6, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sergey Kachur, Vasutakarn Chongthammakun, Carl J. Lavie, Alban De Schutter, Ross Arena, Richard V. Milani, Barry A. Franklin Source Type: research

Exercise Training for Prevention and Treatment of Heart Failure
Heart Failure (HF) results in high healthcare costs and burdens for the United States both in respects to hospitalizations, therapies, and associated disability. The relative proportion of HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) compared with HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is on the rise; HFpEF has already become the dominant form of HF and it continues to increase. The serious implications of these trends are compounded by a dearth of effective HFpEF therapies. While low physical activity, low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), and obesity, are risk factors for HF in general, they particularly predispose to H...
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - July 3, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nitin Kondamudi, Mark Haykowsky, Daniel E. Forman, Jarett Berry, Ambarish Pandey Source Type: research

MicroRNAs as Important Regulators of Exercise Adaptation
A significant body of evidence supports the protective role of exercise training (ET) in cardiovascular diseases, skeletal muscle dystrophies, several types of cancer, Alzheimer disease or even in the recovery of spinal cord injury. In spite of this, the molecular mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of exercise training are not well understood and remain elusive. Several mechanisms have been proposed in the past, but more recently microRNAs (miRNAs), small non-coding RNA molecules involved in a variety of basic biological processes that negatively modulate gene expression, recognized as important regulatory molecu...
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - June 27, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Gustavo J.J. Silva, Anja Bye, Hamid el Azzouzi, Ulrik Wisl øff Source Type: research

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Exercise Training in African Americans
African Americans (AAs) have a higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to their Caucasian American ( CA) counterparts, which represents a major health disparity. Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a well-established independent risk factor for all-cause and CVD mortality, which has been shown across many epidemiological and clinical trials to be lower in AAs compared to CAs. While much attention has been given to traditional health disparity risk factors (e.g. blood pressure, obesity, insulin resistance), the impact of racial differences in CRF on CVD mortality has not been widely considered. (Source: Pro...
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - June 10, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Damon L. Swift, Neil M. Johannsen, Conrad P. Earnest, Robert L. Newton, Joshua E. McGee, Timothy S. Church Source Type: research

Taking Physical Activity, Exercise, and Fitness to a Higher Level
One of the world ’s leaders on cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and health, Dr. Steven Blair, has said on many occasions “physical inactivity and low level of CRF are perhaps the greatest threats to health in the 21st Century.".1 This issue of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases (PCVD) aims to update and advance the science of physical activity (PA), exercise training, and CRF in health and disease. (Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - June 1, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ulrik Wisloff, Carl J. Lavie Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Masthead
(Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases)
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - June 1, 2017 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research