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A. Marc Gillinov

Dr. Gillinov is the co-author with Dr. Steven Nissen, Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine of the book, Heart 411: The Only Book on Heart Health You'll Ever Need which will be published in February, 2012 by Crown Archetype.

Aerobic exercise

When practiced in this way, examples of cardiovascular/aerobic exercise are medium to long distance running/jogging, swimming, cycling, and walking, according to the first extensive research on aerobic exercise, conducted in the 1960s on over 5,000 U.S. Air Force personnel by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper.

American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties

The sections include Acute Care, Aquatic Physical Therapy, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary, Clinical Electrophysiology and Wound Management, Education, Federal Physical Therapy, Geriatrics, Hand Rehabilitation, Health Policy and Administration, Home Health, Neurology, Oncology, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Private Practice, Research, Sports Physical Therapy, and Women's Health.

American College of Cardiology

As early as the 1980s, the ACC partnered with the American Heart Association (AHA) to develop the first clinical practice guidelines for cardiovascular practice.

Anacetrapib

Cardiologist Steve Nissen described DEFINE as a medium-sized safety trial intended to find out "whether anacetrapib would show the same increase in adverse cardiovascular events that was seen with torcetrapib."

AURORA trial

The AURORA trial (A Study to Evaluate the Use of Rosuvastatin in Subjects on Regular Hemodialysis: An Assessment of Survival and Cardiovascular Events) was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study investigating the use of rosuvastatin in the prevention of cardiovascular disease among patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis.

Bio-Nucleonics

The company develops, manufactures, and markets radiopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and imaging agents to detect and treat cardiovascular, oncological, and neurological diseases.

Bundled payment

Bundled payments began as early as 1984 when The Texas Heart Institute under the direction of Denton Cooley began to charge flat fees for both hospital and physician services for cardiovascular surgeries.

Canadian Heart Rhythm Society

The Canadian Heart Rhythm Society counts some of the world's leading cardiovascular researchers in its ranks, including Dr. George Klein, Dr. Paul Dorian, Dr. George Wyse, and Dr. Stuart Connolly.

Daoud Hanania

Hanania trained under Dr. Michael DeBakey and Dr. Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas in the late 1960s while he was a Fellow in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Baylor University College of Medicine.

Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre

Its foundation was funded jointly by the University and the British Heart Foundation, which also endowed the BHF Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, currently held by the Centre's Director, Professor Anna Dominiczak.

Iván González

Iván González López (1960-), Puerto Rican cardiovascular and heart transplant sergeon

James K. Gilman

He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

John S. Rumsfeld

In 2005, he was named the Chief Science Officer for the American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) Program.

Jonathan L. Halperin

Current federal appointments include the U.S Food and Drug Administration’s Cardiovascular and Renal Advisory Committee, and the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the Clinical Trial of Aspirin and Simvastatin in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension for the National Institutes of Health.

Klinikum Aachen

University Hospital Aachen (UKA) and the University Medical Centre Maastricht (Maastricht UMC+)will start a Cardiovascular Centre of Excellence on the Avantis Technology Park on the Dutch-German border between Heerlen and Aachen

Kunming Pharmaceutical Corporation

The Company offers its major products under three categories: Artemether series, consisting of artemether injections, capsules, and tablets for the treatment of subtertian malaria; Sanqi series, for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and Gastrodine series, for the treatment of headache and neuralgia.

Marian Ionescu

Upon his return to Romania in 1960 he was appointed Consultant Cardiovascular Surgeon at Fundeni Hospital in Bucharest.

Mladen Naletilić

Because of health problems he was transferred to cardiovascular division of University Hospital Centre Zagreb on 14 November 1999.

Nesiritide

Nesiritide works to facilitate cardiovascular fluid homeostasis through counterregulation of the renin-angiotensin-aldoesterone system, stimulating cyclic guanosine monophosphate, leading to smooth muscle cell relaxation.

Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation

Hayes previously worked as the director of development for the Charleston, South Carolina-based Medical University of South Carolina’s Cardiovascular Institute.

Otters Club

With state-of-the-art Gymnasium and Cardiovascular facilities, a volleyball court, exhaustive libraries and two great restaurants, Otters Club remains one of the most exclusive social addresses in Mumbai.

Rambam Health Care Campus

:This facility will offer an integrated model for cardiovascular care.

Roasted barley tea

Roasted barley tea was found to inhibit bacterial colonization and adhesion, specifically to the major cause of tooth decay and implicated in cardiovascular diseases, Streptococcus mutans biofilms.

Robertson Centre for Biostatistics

The centre led the WOSCOP study (New England Journal of Medicine 1995; 333:1301-7) which found that treatment with Pravastatin significantly reduced the risk of myocardial infarction and the risk of death from cardiovascular causes without adversely affecting the risk of death from noncardiovascular causes in men with moderate hypercholesterolaemia and no history of myocardial infarction.

Sibutramine

In a dissenting article, "Sibutramine: gone, but not forgotten", Professor David Haslam (ex-president of the Royal College of General Practitioners and currently chairman of the National Obesity Forum) says that the SCOUT study is flawed as it only covered high-risk patients and did not consider obese patients who do not have cardiovascular complications or similar contra-indications.

St. Cloud Hospital

Inpatient and outpatient surgery serves patients requiring trauma, orthopedic, urological, ear/nose/throat, retina, cardiovascular, neurological, plastic and bariatric surgery.

Step test

Harvard Step Test, a type of cardiac stress test for detecting and/or diagnosing cardiovascular disease and measure fitness.

Tofy Mussivand

He is Professor of Surgery and Engineering at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University; Chair and Director, Cardiovascular Devices Division of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI); and Medical Devices Program of both the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign sought to educate the public on women's risk of cardiovascular disease and promote the importance of women getting screened for heart disease.

Whitehall Study

The primary health risks under investigation in the Whitehall studies include cardiovascular function, smoking, car ownership, angina, leisure and hobbies, ECG measurements, and diabetes.

William C. Roberts

It was here, working with attending physicians such as Glenn Morrow and Eugene Braunwald that his career began to focus on cardiovascular pathology, and he focused his training exclusively on autopsies and surgical pathology.

Željko Reiner

He is the member of the editorial boards of several international journals such as: Nature Reviews Cardiology, Atherosclerosis (journal), Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases and other.


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