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Objectives: up to date the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk is based mainly on the presence of CV risk factors. However, many markers of subclinical atherosclerosis has been demonstrated as powerful predictors of CV events. Aim of our study was to evaluate if non invasive US parameters,...

Objective: Our aim was to examine the impact of mismatch patterns reflecting pre- and post-natal growth conditions on markers of arterial stiffness and central hemodynamics in young adults. Methods: In all, 1056 participants from Malmö Offspring Study, 484 men and 572 women (age-range 18–44 years),...

As the advancement of technologies becomes more progressive and efficient, State Polytechnic of Malang would like to start digitalizing most of the student attendance system by using mobile-based QR code scanning for student identification. They aim to improve their student attendance system to be more...

Background and Aim: Low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is a primary risk factor for atherosclerosis, but it is also associated with elevated blood pressure (BP) and future development of hypertension. We examined the relationship between LDL-C and haemodynamic variables in normotensive and never-treated...

The Chinese structure of physical education as a high school curriculum differs greatly from that of the United States. The purpose of this study is to measure the difference in attitude toward physical education among Chinese and American high school students and to identify possible causes. Furthermore,...

Background: Lately, there has been many discussions regarding happy / silent hypoxia, whereas the patient does not sense or show symptoms of breathlessness yet the patient has been experiencing hypoxia due to Covid-19 infection. This has caused death to many Covid-19 patients without comorbidities. The...

Background: Exercise is part of antihypertensive therapy. However, little is known about the effect of different types of exercise on hemodynamic variables in systemic arterial hypertension (SAH). Purpose: To evaluate the effect of an aerobic (AE), resistance (RE) and combined (CE) exercise session on...

Objectives: Left ventricular (LV) concentric remodeling predicts all cause and CV mortality in various subsets of patients. Large arteries stiffness determines cardiac afterload and therefore LV remodeling. Since elastic properties of the arterial wall vary along the aortic pathway, we hypothesized that...

Type 2 diabetes (DM2) and poor glycemic control adversely affect common carotid intima media thickness (IMT), considered marker of preclinical atherosclerosis. However, studies evaluating the effect of DM2 and glucose levels on IMT did not consider carotid diameter, known to affect IMT. A certain IMT...

COVID-19 pandemic brings tremendous impact on families, particularly on marital relationship. This paper reported findings on systematic review concerning the stressor and psychological problem encountered by married couples. We search in the Google Scholar database using the following keywords “marital...

At every level of education, from early years to postgraduate, students can arrive in the UK (or US) classroom with little or no English language ability. It is impossible for teachers to have knowledge of every first language that students bring into the classroom and thus they may rely on a computeraided...

Many workers, both in government and private companies in Batam City, Indonesia, are required to Working from Home as recommended by the government to comply with the established protocol. This research has followed the methodology from Agus Purwanto (2020) and uses the productivity of Working from Home...

Facing the question of economic diversification for income and employment enhancement, the answer to the question of whether incorporation of modern digital technology and sectoral training facilities may replace imported labour for local youth, the study taking up the case study of the aquaculture sector...

Background Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is a disease caused by the backflow of stomach contents into the laryngopharynx. In 2018, 20-30% of patients with laryngeal complaints were diagnosed with LPR in Indonesia. Aims: To determine the prevalence of LPR cases at Dr. Hasan Sadikin General...

This study aimed to discover patterns in sociology learning using scientific approach that is oriented towards student’s activeness and responsibility through online media during Covid-19 pandemic at a high school in West Lombok. The research method used a case study qualitative approach. Data collection...

Background: Individuals with Down Syndrome (DS) have autonomic dysfunction impacting regulation of heart rate, Blood Pressure (BP), and peripheral vasoconstriction. This may alter central hemodynamics through different wave reflections. We investigated central hemodynamics including wave reflection during...

Importance: The finding that aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV) is increased may explain why patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased cardiovascular risk despite the low prevalence of classic cardiovascular risk factors. Objective: To determine why these patients have an increased...

This study examines how performance expectations, effort expectations, social influences, and facilitating conditions affect the intention to use accounting software among micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Padang. The research focuses on MSMEs that have used accounting software for at least...

Technology has revolutionized finance through fintech, simplifying transactions and access to financial services. In Indonesia, fintech, particularly e-wallets, has experienced rapid growth. However, these technological advancements also present challenges such as technostress, which affects user behavior....

Objective: The ASINPHAR@2action programme aims at raising awareness to early vascular ageing (EVA) through a community-based intervention. This preliminary analysis is focused on the analysis of the proportion of participants with abnormal arterial stiffness (AS) and the definition of its main determinants. Design...

Background: Markers of central haemodynamics have in recent years emerged as promising predictors of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Central haemodynamics are affected early in the development of vascular aging and affect organs directly attached to large arteries. Carotid-Femoral pulse wave velocity (c-f...

Background: Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of disease progression and death in multiple sclerosis (MS). Obesity has a negative impact on vascular structure and function, but whether this contributes to worse vascular function similarly in individuals with MS and controls is unknown. Aim:...

Wearable gadgets are technological devices with limited computational power that can be worn by users, providing them with information and seamless access to their master devices. It allows gadgets to connect and exchange data, enabling various tasks to be completed online. Wearables have revolutionized...

The objective of this study to review and identify recent studies related to incidence of the extemporaneous compounding products used for pediatric patients. This systematic literature review was conducted by searching the literature using the PubMed and Google Scholar electronic databases between 2016...

Objective: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with vascular derangement [1]. Leptin and adiponectin are adipokines with immunomodulatory and vascular functions [2]. We studied the association between arterial stiffness and plasma leptin and adiponectin levels...

Introduction: Increased arterial stiffness (AS) in adults causes increased left ventricular (LV) afterload, putting additional strain on the heart. Long-term, this can lead to an adverse cardiovascular phenotype and AS has been found to be a determinant of CVD, independent of traditional cardiovascular...

The relationship between physiological and psychological well-beings among adolescents has always been studied extensively by researchers, yet few researches focuses on the impact of contextual factors such as school type, and demographic factors such as gender on the relationship between physical and...

Background/ Objective: Vascular growth factors angiopoietin-1 (Ang1) and -2 (Ang2) regulate vascular permeability and inflammation, Ang2 likely as Ang1’s selective antagonist. Their role before or in type 2 diabetes (pre-&T2D) is unknown. We hypothesised that higher circulating Ang1 and lower Ang2...

Background: Obesity is linked to a higher prevalence of risk factors, metabolic and inflammatory pathways conducting to increased vascular disease and CV risk. Objective: To assess vascular disarrangements and haemodynamic patterns in obese young subjects (O) compared with matched lean (L) controls,...

This research aims to establish the reference values of genitometric parameters in young men of the pubertant period living in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the peculiarities of their relation with somatometric and physiometric indicators. 74 young men of Yakut nationality were examined by standard...

A teenager's athletes collide with many things, such as rapid physical, psychological, and intellectual development. This study aims to determine how much the psychosocial aspects of the adolescent athletes of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) are in individual sports. The type of research...

This paper is to analyze the knowledge of students about the parts of scientific papers and to determine the policies that need to be issued to solve these problems. This research is a qualitative method with a case study approach while the research design is a single case design. The purposive sampling...

The research aims to analyze the economic potential in Panggang and Saptosari Districts, Gunungkidul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta. Using information from land value mapping from Google Earth Engine technology, the results showed that there were three main classes, namely yards, explosions, and...

Globally, road accidents are among the leading causes of death and injury, with driver fatigue being one of the main contributors. Driver fatigue is especially critical in emergency response driving, where factors such as long and overnight shifts are common. This study presents a multimodal driver fatigue...

Objective: Ambulatory Arterial Stiffness Index (AASI) and symmetric AASI (sAASI) have been proposed as indices of arterial stiffness obtained by 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). ABPM allows the analysis of indices of BP variability like day and night SD, BP dipping, weighted 24-h...

Pandemic COVID-19 brings tremendous impact on families, particularly on marital relationship. We reported finding on systematic review concerning how marriages survive against marital conflict during COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Google Scholar database, we searched articles using the following keywords...

Background: Sedentary behavior has deleterious effects on cardiovascular risk. Uninterrupted sitting is associated with an impaired peripheral blood flow and vascular function. However, the relation between cerebrovascular flow and sedentary behavior is currently unknown. Impaired cerebrovascular flow...

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the TGT Learning Model using Google Form in learning Mathematics during the Covid-19 pandemic in the 8th-grade students of Junior High School (SMPN) 14 Bulukumba on student learning achievement. The type of research is pre-experimental research. The research...

One of the characteristics of individuals with eating disorders is the inability to express themselves verbally. Hence, art therapy is particularly effective for individuals with this disorder because of its core mechanism which is the ability to bypass verbal communication and elicit psychological and...

This study is a literature survey highlighting the importance of Islamic religious education in shaping character in the era of disruption. This study aims to collect and analyze papers on the urgency of PAI in building student character in the era of disruption. A literature review design was applied,...

Hypertension, even when pharmaceutically controlled, may accelerate arterial stiffening and impair changes in blood flow necessary to support neural activity (neurovascular coupling [NVC]). Optimal NVC requires continuous, non-pulsatile flow, which is partially determined by extra- and intra-cranial...

The aim of this study is to identify the critical success factors that impact the using of social media as e-learning tools. We conduct a literature review study to identify the factors by collecting fifteen papers from reputable database journal such as emerald, educause, Science Direct, and Google...

Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the world has increased significantly in the last decades. Post meal physical exercise studies could improves blood glucose levels in diabetic patients. Plyometric exercise is a simple body movement that usually uses in body weight management. Therefore the aim of this...

Purpose/Background/Objective: Hypertension has been considered as one of the most common modifiable risk factors for stroke and cognitive impairment. Decreased cerebral perfusion and oxygenation, as a result of capillary rarefaction and microvascular impairment of brain vessels, have been suggested as...

Objective: To investigate the influence of weight excess and blood pressure (BP) on vascular structure and function in a sample of obese children. Methods: We measured office and ambulatory BP (ABPM), carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT), endothelial function by the Flow Mediated Dilation (FMD) technique,...

Mothers and babies remember the same obstetric events. Babies experience a variety of negative and positive events during birth, “Rarely do babies not experience trauma” Babies have many symptoms that parents and doctors consider normal, but are actually symptoms of birth trauma. Obstetric interventions...

Objectives: Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in multiple sclerosis (MS), and recent data showed that subclinical markers of atherosclerosis are higher in MS as well. Prevalence of MS in men is much lower than in women, but their prognosis is much worse. Men with MS also have higher...

Rapid technological change, especially in information technology, brings major changes in teaching and learning strategies for teachers to deal with millennial. The purpose of this study was to identify teaching and learning strategies used by vocational teachers, especially in applying the 2013 Vocational...

Background: Systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) is one of the major risk factors related to the development of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Sodium intake is linked to elevated blood pressure and can be estimated by 24-h urinary sodium excretion. The objective of this study was to correlate 24 h urinary...

The use of information technology (IT) by Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) is an important key in strengthening competitiveness and expanding the market. This study reveals the role of technology characteristics and the business environment in spurring the business performance of small and medium...