European journal of clinical investigation
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Eur. J. Clin. Invest. · Dec 2020
Multicenter Study Observational StudyClinical characteristics and prognosis of hospitalized COVID-19 patients with incident sustained tachyarrhythmias: a multicenter observational study.
Little is still known about the prognostic impact of incident arrhythmias in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and predictors of sustained tachyarrhythmias in hospitalized patients with COVID-19, and their potential association with disease severity and in-hospital mortality. ⋯ AF is the more frequent incident tachyarrhythmia; however, it not seems associated to ARDS development and death. On the other hand, incident VT is a not frequent but independent predictor of in-hospital mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
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Eur. J. Clin. Invest. · Dec 2020
Letter Case ReportsDuplex Echocardiography in multivalvular Heart Disease after PMVR?
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Eur. J. Clin. Invest. · Dec 2020
LetterDisclosing Conflict of Interest Does Not Mitigate Healthcare Bias and Harm: It is Time to Sever Industry Ties.
Disclosing conflict of interest is widely believed to mitigate bias and harm from industry entanglement in healthcare research, education and practice. However, evidence is lacking of disclosure-related mitigation. Radical and extensive severing of industry ties to health care is necessary to curtail industry-related bias and harm.
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Eur. J. Clin. Invest. · Dec 2020
Cardiovascular risk estimation with 5 different algorithms before and after 5 years of bDMARD treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Assessing cardiovascular (CV) risk represents a challenge for clinicians because more variables can impact CV risk. The aim of this study was to evaluate the change of CV risk after 5 years of biological treatment in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and impact of prolonged low disease activity on 5 different CV risk algorithms. ⋯ Algorithms commonly used to estimate 10-year CV risk in RA perform differently. Scores that include specific inflammatory RA-related variables seem to decrease with amelioration of disease activity. Further investigations are warranted to explore the predictive value of their changing over time.
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Eur. J. Clin. Invest. · Dec 2020
ReviewRheumatic Heart Disease anno 2020: Impacts of gender and migration on epidemiology and management.
The epidemiology and management of diseases can be influenced by social demographic factors. Gender and migration are among these factors. ⋯ There are contradicting results for outcomes after PBMV between males and females. It is not clear whether sex difference plays a role in pathophysiology, diagnosis, management and prognosis of MS. Migration has impacts on epidemiology and management of RHD. Further studies are required in these two fields to explore their relationship to RHD.