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Spring 2012
Cardiac hypertrophy is maladaptive remodeling of the myocardium that often progresses to heart failure. The hypertrophic transport metabolon consists of membrane transporters implicated in hypertrophy, and substrates for these transporters are provided by the catalytic action of carbonic...
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Fall 2021
One third of all deaths in Canada are due to cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure. Cardiovascular diseases have a considerable economic burden, and drastically impact the health and quality of life of Canadians. Heart failure (HF) is a clinical condition where the heart is unable to...
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Fall 2013
Heart failure is common, and is associated with significant mortality, morbidity, and reduced quality of life. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate some therapeutic interventions and outcomes in patients with acute and chronic heart failure. In the first part, the efficacy of cardiac...
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Spring 2016
Heart failure is associated with major changes in cardiac energy metabolism that decrease cardiac efficiency, which can reduce cardiac function. In severe heart failure there is a shift back toward a fetal heart metabolism, with a decrease in mitochondrial oxidative metabolism and increase in...
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Fall 2016
Abstract Aims: The use of telehealth for heart failure management is increasing and it is not clear from the literature whether it is more beneficial than usual care. A meta-analysis was done of published randomized controlled trials to compare telehealth management and usual physician care for...
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Multiple Outcomes in Heart Failure Research: Composite Endpoints and Multivariate Modelling
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Composite endpoints are increasingly popular outcomes in clinical trials of heart failure. Uptake has outpaced guidance on their use and little consistency is seen in their construction. We must consider how best to handle multiple outcomes statistically and clinically, ie in a way that is both...
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Regulation of oxygen uptake and cardiac function in heart failure: effects of biventricular pacing and high-intensity interval exercise
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and high-intensity interval training (HIT) have been shown to be effective for left ventricular (LV) reverse remodelling and increasing aerobic capacity in patients with heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction (EF). The mechanisms underlying these...
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Structure and Function of Cardiac Troponin C (TNNC1): Implications for Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathies, and Troponin Modulating Drugs
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Li, Monica X., Hwang, Peter M.
In striated muscle, the protein troponin complex turns contraction on and off in a calcium-dependent manner. The calcium-sensing component of the complex is troponin C, which is expressed from the TNNC1 gene in both cardiac muscle and slow-twitch skeletal muscle (identical transcript in both...
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Study Protocol for the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC): Building Context - an Organizational Monitoring Program in Long-Term Care Project (Project One)
Download2009
Squires, J.E., Teare, G., Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Cummings, G.G.
Background: While there is a growing awareness of the importance of organizational context ( or the work environment/setting) to successful knowledge translation, and successful knowledge translation to better patient, provider ( staff), and system outcomes, little empirical evidence supports...
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2014-11-05
Thompson, Richard B., Oudit, Gavin Y., Paterson, D. Ian, Becher, Harald, Kaul, Padma, Knudtson, Merril L., Dyck, Jason R.B., Lopaschuk, Gary D., Belenkie, Israel, Clark, Alexander M., Schulz, Richard, Howlett, Jonathan G., Kim, Daniel H., Anderson, Todd J., Weeks, Sarah G., Haykowsky, Mark J., McAlister, Finlay A., Ezekowitz, Justin A., Friedrich, Matthias G., Quan, Hude, Duff, Henry J., Noga, Michelle L., Kassiri, Zamaneh, Light, Peter E.
Nationally, symptomatic heart failure affects 1.5-2% of Canadians, incurs $3 billion in hospital costs annually and the global burden is expected to double in the next 1–2 decades. The current one-year mortality rate after diagnosis of heart failure remains high at >25%. Consequently, new...