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The direct CVD-spun multi-membrane carbon nanotube yarn is mechanically twisted to engineer its structures and to enhance its mechanical properties. Homogenously twisted CNT yarns with a dense cross-section are achieved with different degrees of twisting. The mechanical twisting remarkably increases...

The coatings of titanium dibordie (TiB2) on a high purity graphite substrate by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) was studied by using a gas mixture of TiCl4, BCl3 and H2. The reaction thermodynamics and the influences of TiCl4: BCl3 flow ratio on the growth rate of TiB2 are analyzed by using HSC software,...

Wellness and healthiness depend on physiology if no illness exists in the body. As a treatment either in healthy or sick state, we suggest that sauna exposure could be good for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, especially heart and brains arteries. We measured by our photoplethysmographic (PPG)...

Background and Aims: Active vitamin D [1,25(OH)2D3] deficiency is a potential modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular (CVD) and renal disease in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and stage 3/4 chronic kidney disease (CKD). Exact mechanisms are unclear. Arterial stiffness is an independent predictor...

Background: Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is used in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) because of its antithrombotic effects. We investigated whether ASA has additional therapeutic value by preventing the progression of inflammation and cardiovascular remodelling in mice with stable atherosclerosis...

Introduction: Inaccurate determination of arterial path-length by surface-distance (SD) measurement is an inherent source of error in calculating carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (CFPWV). A recent development in calculating arterial path-length by a simple distance formula (DF) for CFPWV has been...

The monolayer MoS2 thin film was deposited directly on quartz substrate by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) approach using MoO3 and sulfur powders as reactants. Raman spectroscopic and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopic analyses were conducted to evaluate the structural and optical property of the grown...

Objective: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by noticeable neuropsychiatric symptoms and cognitive decline [1]. In addition, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a known etiological hallmark of AD pathogenesis [2]. Recent epidemiological evidence suggests an interplay between arterial stiffness (AS)...

Background: Assessment of endothelial function using brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) predicts future cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. However, poor adherence to protocol guidelines and lack of reference values hinders widespread FMD use. This study established age- and sex-specific reference...

Objective: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) primary prevention guidelines recommend absolute CVD risk estimation to guide blood pressure and lipid therapy recommendations but are inconsistent despite relying on similar evidence. This study aimed to compare the populations recommended for treatment according...

Objective and Motivation: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is known to be associated with vascular ageing, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) [1]. The European gold standard measurement of PWV requires an experienced operator to measure pulse waveforms at multiple sites, sometimes together with...

Objectives: To investigate the role of peripheral augmentation index (AIx) for the prediction of prevalent cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality in the general population in age- and sex- specific manner. Methods: AIx was measured in 11,250 participants of the population-based Gutenberg Health...

A high level of non-compliance relating to taking of medication can lead to compromised health benefits and wasted money. Improving patient compliance has the potential for improving issues related to Cardiovascular Disorder (CVD) and many other diseases. This paper developed a prototype system for monitoring...

Since the 21st century, cardiovascular disease (CVD), which has a high rate of morbidity and mortality, has become one of the most prevalent and fatal diseases. Therefore, machine-learning and deep-learning-based heart disease prediction models hold substantial research value in the medical field with...

High levels of physical activity (PA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) are each associated with a favorable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profile. The study included 231 urban-dwelling asymptomatic 40-49 year old women. Body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage (BF%), blood glucose, blood lipids,...

Men with ED generally complain failure to attain or maintain an adequate erection during sexual activity. The prevalence of ED is strongly correlated with age, affecting about 40% of men at age 40 and nearly 70% at aged 70. A variety of chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the hottest issues in present medical research due to their status as the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Studies have achieved certain achievements in early detection tool development. However, there is still a research gap in accurate, efficient and widely...

Senescence is associated with various degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). The community must bear the economic burden due to CVD, not only from the prohibitive medical costs but also from the decline in people’s work productivity due to suffering from CVD. Various efforts have...

Dyslipidemia AS one of the most important risk factors, with a variety of CAD and other AS sex of CVD occurrence is closely related to the oxidation of lipoprotein also plays a key role in the patients. A large number of research confirmed that high. X - LDL and ox - Lp (a) level is AS strong risk factors,...

Silicon oxide is widely used as a thin film to improve the surface properties of materials, because it is of anti-resistance, hardness, corrosion resistance, dielectric, optical transparency etc. Just as these excellent performances, silicon oxide thin films are used in many fields. There are many ways...

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a set of risk factors for metabolic abnormalities that can lead to dysfunction of organs, one of which is the heart. Each risk factor component of MetS represents a significant economic burden for patients, health plans, and society at large. One of the cardiovascular diseases...

We report the photoelectronic properties of MoS2/CdS heterojunction films fabricated via rapid chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and chemical bath deposition (CBD). Silver-doped MoS2 thin films were deposited on prepared indium tin oxide substrates via CVD, and then CdS films were prepared on the surfaces...

Bacterial proteases with antithrombotic activities can be used to treat cardiovascular disease (CVD), one of the leading causes of death in the world. Indonesia is known for its high marine biodiversity, including its brown seaweed varieties and their symbiotic bacteria. The high biodiversity of proteolytic...

CVD (cardiovascular disease) is a group of non-communicable diseases and a global cause of cardiovascular death. The search for gents inhibiting blood clot formation (thrombus) and enhancing antithrombotic activity are important for the prevention and treatment of CVD. Previous study reported that bacteria...

Mortality and morbidity of Cardio-vascular diseases (CVDs) have been the major issue in the group of non-communicable diseases worldwide. However, the existing antithrombotic drugs to combat CVD still have many shortcomings in terms of price and safety. Bacillus sp. HSFI-12 had been previously reported...

The focus of this paper is the so-called functional polymer thin films deposited via all-dry vapour-phase processes including CVD, plasma-enhanced CVD, and paracyclophane-based CVD, with the aim of engineering substrate-independent microbial-resistant surfaces for a broad range of healthcare, membrane...

Obesity could increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, and now it is the first comorbid for COVID-19. It occurs chronically because of the positive energy balance. Body mass index (BMI) is related to the amount of fat. This index can predict how the burden of obesity might affect everyone in the...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a fatal disease of the heart or blood vessels. Intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) as a newly emerging optical-based technology can provide real-time, high-resolution, and three dimensional images with micrometer resolution. In this paper, an automatic lumen...

Cardiovascular disease remains one of the top causes of morbidity and mortality around the globe, with a growing requirement for innovative non-invasive diagnostic tools. Most established methods of diagnosis suffer from the drawbacks of invasiveness, costliness, and limited access to different settings,...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain to be the leading cause of death worldwide. Studies show that men manifest symptoms ten years earlier than women and that men are less likely to seek healthy lifestyle behaviors compared to women. This study aimed to determine the effects of a lifestyle medicine program...

Nanodiamond seeding is a well-established approach to enhance the nucleation density in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond growth. However, nanodiamond seeding is highly dependent on the properties of nanodiamond particles, the solvent and the substrate. In this work we present a simple electrostatic...

The ceramics produced by Cizhou Kiln in the Song and Jin Dynasties are very diverse. Underglaze pottery and overglaze red and green pottery are distinctive products. Children-playing picture is one of the decorative themes of painted porcelain in Cizhou Kiln in the Song and Jin Dynasties, in which the...

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method is employed in the present paper to grow patterned Aluminium nitride (AlN) nanowire array. The AlN nanoarray is grown on Si substrate through patterned polystyrene spheres (PS) colloid template. The microstructure of AlN nanoarray is investigated by SEM, XRD and...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of mortality globally. There is a need for accurate and clinically interpretable predictive systems for CVD. In this paper, we propose a multi-input Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model with an attention mechanism for predicting CVD, enhanced...

Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) are the major cause of death worldwide; with increasing numbers of individuals in recent days trust on internet-based health quizzes and social media for self-diagnosis. We prove that clinical examination features (blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose levels) will be significantly...

The paper reports the effects of machining parameters on performance of biodegradable magnesium calcium alloy implant in terms of surface roughness, microstructure, microhardness, chip morphology and degradation rate in face milling using CVD diamond like carbon coated carbide inserts. The result shows...

In the context of global climate change, extreme weather events, especially heat waves and cold snaps, are becoming increasingly frequent and intense. These phenomena pose a significant threat to human health, with patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) being the most vulnerable. This study, based...

The structural, vibrational, and electrical properties of ZnSe crystals grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) were investigated. X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed the formation of high-quality cubic sphalerite ZnSe with pronounced (111) crystal texture, submicron crystallite size, and high structural...

Diamond coated tools of cemented carbide substrate with high Co content are extremely useful for machining difficult-to-cut materials. However, it is very difficult to deposit a well-adherent diamond coating on WC-Co with high Co content because of the strong catalytic effect of Co. In this work, a new...

171 employees exposed to industrial anthropogenic chemical factors were examined. The sample was divided according to the principle of the presence of the cardiovascular diseases (CVD) (study group – 115 people) and their absence (comparison group – 56 people). For all employees, a chemical-analytical...

This study investigated the use of nanoscale bilayers assembly for superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic surface modification on stainless steel plate. This study performed nanoscale bilayers assembly method ,as well as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to perform fluorosilan treatment on the modification...

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) grown on metal substrates are of great importance for their applications in thermal and electrical devices. However, synthesizing better quality and long CNTs on metal substrates is still a big challenge. We have synthesized vertically aligned multiwalled...

Background: The Framingham Heart Study group has proposed an algorithm for calculating the 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) and heart/vascular age. The predictors used are age, diabetes, smoking, systolic blood pressure, total and high density cholesterol. We investigated the association...

Due to the long and narrow regional characteristics of Inner Mongolia, there are obvious climatic differences between the east and the west, and various meteorological factors have different influences on the development and utilization of solar energy. The abundance and stability index of solar energy...

Background: Population studies have indicated that both the presence of osteoporosis and serum levels of calcium are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Objective: To investigate the association between bone loss, calcium intake and levels of the reactive hyperemia index (RHI)...

Ever rising prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) is a major challenge for the health sector in Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of CVD and sociodemographic and lifestyle factors associated with it in Bangladesh. The data were collected through a cross-sectional survey following...

Objective. Physical activity (PA) has been associated with reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, improvements in conventional risk factors do not explain the full benefit of PA on CVD risk. Therefore, we examined the association between PA and central haemodynamics to provide new insight into...

Background. Arterial stiffness is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is considered as the ‘gold standard’ measurement method. However cfPWV does not assess the stiffness of the proximal aorta and its sensitivity at higher...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes one-third of deaths in Indonesia. Utilisation of the Indonesian National Health Insurance Scheme (JKN) to cover CVD is increasing. Reducing CVD costs in hospitals requires appropriate interventions. This study aims to evaluate the potential cost savings for patients...

Relations between central versus brachial blood pressure and major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events remain controversial. Central measures derived using radial tonometry and a generalized transfer function as implemented using the SphygmoCor device may better predict CVD risk compared to central pressures...