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The Effect Of Combat Exercises On Cardiovascular Response: An Exploratory Study, Melisa Gantt Jan 2010

The Effect Of Combat Exercises On Cardiovascular Response: An Exploratory Study, Melisa Gantt

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PURPOSE: Hypertension (HTN) affects one in every three adults in the United States. Often associated with the older population, this silent killer has emerged in an unsuspecting group, young military soldiers. With the rapid succession of multiple deployments, long intervals between blood pressure (BP) assessments, and the absence of cardiovascular (CV) measures during the pre and post deployment health screenings; soldiers may be at higher risk for HTN than their civilian counterparts of the same age. The purpose of this study was to explore real-time continuous CV measures of soldiers before, during, and after exposure to a simulated combat stressor …


Relationship Between Precipitant Stressor And Timing Of Clinical Diagnosis In Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy., C Neil, Angela M. Kucia, H Nguyen, A Sverdlov, A Chan, D Dautov, I Mohasseb, J Selvanayagam, M Arstall, C Zeitz, J Beltrame, J Horowitz Jan 2010

Relationship Between Precipitant Stressor And Timing Of Clinical Diagnosis In Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy., C Neil, Angela M. Kucia, H Nguyen, A Sverdlov, A Chan, D Dautov, I Mohasseb, J Selvanayagam, M Arstall, C Zeitz, J Beltrame, J Horowitz

Angela Kucia

In practice, TTC is diagnosed almost exclusively either via (1) emergency cardiac catheterisation, primarily for apparent 'STEMI', or (2) recognition of a potentially precipating stress, primarily in patients with a non-ST-elevation (N-STE) ECG pattern. We therefore hypothesized that the greatest delays in diagnosis would occur in the subgroup with N-STE and no known stressor. A seasonality analysis was also undertaken, to test a possible association between heat stress and TTC.