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Showing 6 results for Cardiovascular Diseases
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Volume 1, Issue 3 (12-2012)
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Aim. The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of women about cardiovascular diseases risk factors. Background. Prevalence of cardiovascular diseases risk factors is increasing rapidly worldwide with development of modernity and urbanization. Method: This cross-sectional study was performed on women with age range of 14-66 years old. The sample size was 735 women. Convenience sampling was used to recruit the participants. Data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed by content analysis and test-retest methods. The data were analyzed by using SPSS software with appropriate statistical tests. Findings: The mean age of participants was 23.4± 5 years. The average body mass index of them was 21.7±3 kg/m. 50.1% of them had little information about cardiovascular diseases. The most common of data gathering sources were radio and TV (65.3%). The most common of cardiovascular diseases risk factors included smoking (93.2%), psychological stress (92.8%), obesity (91.2%), high blood triglyceride (89.4%), and fatty rich food consumption (88.7%). 75.2% of participants achieved at least 50% of the mean knowledge score. There were significant statistical correlation between knowledge score and increasing of age and educational level and applying visual media such as TV (p=0.012, p=0.039, p=0.003 respectively). There was no significant correlation between knowledge score and both marital and economic status. Conclusion: It’s suggested to design educational programs according to age, gender, educational level and culture of different groups of society in order to promote knowledge and control cardiovascular diseases risk factors.
Reza Zeighami, Zahra Abbas-Ali-Madadi, Jalil Azimian, Mohammad Behnam-Moghadam,
Volume 4, Issue 1 (6-2015)
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Aim. The purpose of this study was to review the effectiveness of new cardiac biomarkers.
Background. Cardiovascular diseases have been a heavy burden on the health system’s shoulders and caused about 30 percent of human's deaths annually. Irreversible myocardial injury occurs within around 15-20 minutes following the coronary artery occlusion. Therefore, early diagnosis of this problem is very important for the health care professionals to save patients’ lives. Nowadays, thanks to recognition of new biomarkers and using their characteristics, evaluating the short-term and long-term prognosis is possible.
Method. In this study, papers published within the time period 1980 to 2014, were considered. The papers were searched out by the keywords “cardiac biomarker”, “new cardiac markers”, “coronary diseases”, and “cardiovascular diseases” in Elsevier, Google Scholar, JAMA, Science Direct, Wiley, PubMed, and Iran Medex databases.
Findings. The results indicate that characteristic of each biomarker can play an important role to advance the goals of medicine and harm reduction in the cardiovascular patients. However, despite the high efficiency, routine usage of them is still unclear which indicates the need for further research in this field.
Conclusion. New biomarkers provide new insight about recognition of the causes of cardiovascular diseases, also their easy and rapid application with high sensitivity and predictive value will develop a dramatic change in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases.
Zeinab Hajaliakbari,
Volume 6, Issue 3 (12-2017)
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Aim. This review study was designed to identify the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation and the factors affecting the participation of cardiac patients in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Background. Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death and hospitalization in developed countries. Given that cardiac rehabilitation is as an important component of care for all patients with acute cardiac events, the knowledge of the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation for the prevention of secondary complications of these conditions may reinforce the patients to participate in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Method. This study is a review of the papers related to cardiac rehabilitation searched out by databases PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and Persian articles published in this subject.
Findings. The evidence has shown that those who have participated in cardiac rehabilitation programs are less likely to experience death and morbidity. In general, cardiac rehabilitation can prevent deaths due to heart disease, reduces the possibility of surgery and angiography and reduces the need for hospitalization. Studies over the last 30 years indicate that participating in cardiac rehabilitation programs improve functional capacity, risk factors, quality of life related to health and reduce cardiovascular mortality.
Conclusion. Cardiac rehabilitation is beneficial for patients with cardiovascular disease. It leads to reduction of mortality and morbidity, need for cardiac surgery, and re-hospitalization, and increases functional capacity, and quality of life.
Mohammad Saeed Kalantari Meybodi,
Volume 6, Issue 4 (3-2018)
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Aim. The aim of this review was to investigate the effects of Crocus sativus (Saffron) on cardiovascular diseases from Iranian traditional medicine to modern phytotherapy.
Background. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) presently accounts for almost half of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and causes deaths of 17.3 million per year. Crocus sativus is one of the various traditional herbs that have been demonstrated to have therapeutic effects on cardiovascular disease. Crocus sativus, commonly known as Saffron, is a species of flowering plant of the Crocus genus in the Iridaceae family.
Method. Data were obtained from searching the scientific databases including Pubmed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and related Iranian traditional medicine books. The keywords included "Crocus sativus", "saffron", "cardiovascular diseases", "heart disease" and "therapeutic properties of saffron". Finally, searching in databases detected 58 records that 37 sources had the inclusion criteria and their full texts were carefully reviewed.
Findings. Crocus sativus shows antispasmodic, eupeptic, gingival sedative, anticatarrhal, nerve sedative, carminative, diaphoretic, expectorant, stimulant, stomachic, aphrodisiac, and emmenagogue activities. In addition, it is effective in treating cardiovascular disease. Crocus sativus extract has an anti-arrhythmic effect, vascular smooth muscle relaxant, blood pressure reducing effect and protective role on ischemic heart disease. Also, it can play an important role in stopping ischemic heart damage and be used as a new preventive tool for ischemic heart disease.
Conclusion. Many studies confirm that Crocus sativus has a wide range of pharmacological activities, but it seems more research is needed to evaluate these mechanisms.
Masoumeh Aghaei, Khatereh Seylani, Masoumeh Zakeri Moghaddam,
Volume 7, Issue 1 (6-2018)
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Aim. This study reviews the role of vitamin E in cardiovascular diseases.
Background. Cardiovascular diseases are among the most common health-related problems, and the number of the patients with cardiovascular diseases increases each year. Long-term manifestations of cardiovascular disease bears a lot of cost to the family and society.
Method. This review study was conducted by searching out the related literature in the databases Google Scholar, PubMed, PMC, Springer, and Elsevier, for papers published from 2014 to 2018. Initially, a total of 72 articles were found and the number of articles was reduced to 42 by removing duplicates and articles that were only accessible as abstract. Finally, a review by 21 articles was carried out.
Findings. α-Tocopherol is the most common form of vitamin E in human tissues. Increased oxidative stress is an important mediator of endothelial injury in hypertension pathology, associated with increased oxidant protein production, such as hydrogen peroxide super oxidation, decreased nitric oxide synthesis, and decreased biological capacity of antioxidants. Oxidative stress may lead to endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, hypertrophy, fibrosis, and angiogenesis associated with hypertensive vascular changes. Vitamin E deficiency can provide a constraint for micro ribonucleic acids (miRNAs) networks, and this may lead to the progression of atherosclerosis. Vitamin E deficiency causes adverse effects in cardiovascular systems. However, the effect of its use in the treatment of diseases is still not fully understood.
Discussion. A good amount of Vitamin E should be provided and it should be replaced before the complications occur.
Farzaneh Mehrvarz, Shiva Khaleghparast,
Volume 8, Issue 1 (3-2019)
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Aim. The present article aimed at reviewing the literature regarding factors causing arteriosclerosis.
Background. The origin of arteriosclerosis, which leads to the development of cardiovascular diseases, is quite complicated. The pathogens involved in arteriosclerosis include hemodynamic, thrombotic, carbohydrates, lipid, metabolic changes, and the inherent properties of the arterial wall. These physiological and biochemical properties finally give rise to the clinical symptoms in patients. Furthermore, environmental factors such as smoking, and changing lifestyle can aggravate these symptoms. The progression of arteriosclerosis and the increase in its severity depends on these risk factors as well as their continuation over time.
Method. The present research reviewed the literature published within the last 20 years concerning the factors causing arteriosclerosis. The articles were searched out using databases Science Direct, PubMed, Cochrane, Medline, SID, Scopus, Iran Doc, OVID, CINAHL, and Magiran and the keywords were Atherosclerosis, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease and their Persian equivalents.
Findings. The findings indicated that there have been considerable developments in identifying the factors causing Atherosclerosis, factors such as age, sex, hypertension, smoking, increase in the LDL level, decrease in the HDL and cholesterol level, which are effective in the development of atherosclerosis, and the metabolic factors (disorder of glucose metabolism), thrombogenic and homeostatic factors such as fibrinogen and inflammatory factors that can lead to cardiovascular diseases. Despite the various studies carried out in this regard, cardiovascular diseases are still the leading cause of death as reported by the World Health Organization and the methods for controlling and preventing these diseases have not yet been completely developed.
Conclusion. Taking into account the high mortality rate of cardiovascular diseases, besides identifying the risk factors leading to arteriosclerosis, there must be public education at every level in order to increase awareness, cause fundamental changes in people’s lifestyles, and increase patient self-care education.
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