Aiden J. Chauntry , Anna C. Whittaker , Eli Puterman , Teresa Seeman , Megan Teychenne , Anne I. Turner , Gabriel Zieff , Jeongok G. Logan , Lee Stoner
{"title":"Chronic psychological stress and cardiovascular disease risk: When to use single biomarkers versus allostatic load","authors":"Aiden J. Chauntry , Anna C. Whittaker , Eli Puterman , Teresa Seeman , Megan Teychenne , Anne I. Turner , Gabriel Zieff , Jeongok G. Logan , Lee Stoner","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 152-154"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143392779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmed K. Mahmoud , Juan M. Farina , Milagros Pereyra , Isabel G. Scalia , Niloofar Javadi , Donya Derakshani , Ali A. Elahi , Katie Mand , Mustafa Suppah , Mohammed Tiseer Abbas , Moaz A. Kamal , Kamal Awad , Chieh-Ju Chao , Vuyisile T. Nkomo , Said Alsidawi , Kwan S. Lee , Steven J. Lester , Kristen A. Sell-Dottin , David F. Fortuin , John P. Sweeney , Reza Arsanjani
{"title":"Artificial intelligence applied to ECG predicts mortality after a transcatheter aortic valve replacement","authors":"Ahmed K. Mahmoud , Juan M. Farina , Milagros Pereyra , Isabel G. Scalia , Niloofar Javadi , Donya Derakshani , Ali A. Elahi , Katie Mand , Mustafa Suppah , Mohammed Tiseer Abbas , Moaz A. Kamal , Kamal Awad , Chieh-Ju Chao , Vuyisile T. Nkomo , Said Alsidawi , Kwan S. Lee , Steven J. Lester , Kristen A. Sell-Dottin , David F. Fortuin , John P. Sweeney , Reza Arsanjani","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 147-149"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143652943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowing your audience: A narrative review of culturally tailored health programs for youth","authors":"Lindsey Strieter , Daniel Meyer , Sophia Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Health education is more effective when the providers/educators are knowledgeable about the population in which the education is being disseminated in and cognizant of the cultural influences on these areas of health. Simply put – “know your audience!” Because culture is who we are and what we are, it would be remis to ignore the richness of cultural foods, movement, and other health patterns. Embracing culture in its relationship to health is important. Health educators should be utilizing cultural variability and meeting the needs of specific populations. If lifestyle patterns are to be assimilated into daily practices, the behaviors must be meaningful and culturally relevant. When programs are tailored and implemented in youth and young adults, health education can take a proactive preventative role. This paper provides a perspective for approaching programming for youth, important components for tailoring educational programs, and a narrative review of educational health initiatives that seek to tailor their interventions towards youth. While programs do exist for youth, there is a need for improvement. If healthy living behaviors are to be assimilated into the cultural richness of the community in which the program is implemented, meeting the needs of youth through engaging relevant lessons is crucial.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 71-78"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143374597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The culture of healthy living – Exploring the chaos that drives health behaviors","authors":"Ross Arena , Nicolaas P. Pronk , Colin Woodard","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143560439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicolaas P. Pronk , Laurie P. Whitsel , Elizabeth Ablah , Robert E. Anderson III , Mary Imboden
{"title":"Building a culture of healthy living in the workplace","authors":"Nicolaas P. Pronk , Laurie P. Whitsel , Elizabeth Ablah , Robert E. Anderson III , Mary Imboden","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Workplace settings, including hybrid, remote, and home-based environments, are key places to support employees and their families to live healthfully since so many adults spend significant amounts of time at work. Employers can create a culture of healthy living at their workplaces and do so intentionally through process and practice. They can establish organizational policies, systems, work processes, architectural design practices, and employment benefits designs to support healthy behaviors for their employees and their families. Employers also can ensure health insurance approaches that provide equitable access to quality health care. They can ensure livable wages for all staff and provide a host of other important healthy living support mechanisms, using incentives and communications. Organizational executives and upper managers play a critical role in modeling these shared values at the workplace and participatory approaches need to be implemented to give all workers opportunity to meaningfully engage. Corporate leaders can reinforce a healthy living culture with role modeling and by ensuring resources are available and accessible—to do so, a set of workplace factors should be implemented that, cumulatively, reach a tipping point toward the creation of a healthy workplace culture. Employers can both influence and be influenced by the communities in which they are located. Recognizing regional culture, participating in strategic relationships, investing in the community, and providing volunteer and civic engagement opportunities all contribute to the support of healthy living strategies in the workplace. When employers pursue a workplace culture of health, they not only do good by their employees, but they also increase the likelihood that their company may outperform their market competition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 38-44"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The American Nations model: An analytical tool for understanding the influence of U.S. regional cultures on health and the social and political determinants of health","authors":"Colin Woodard , Ross Arena , Nicolaas P. Pronk","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.03.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.03.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents a significant health crisis, leading to premature morbidity and mortality, that is largely preventable. A decade ago, the World Health Organization formally acknowledged the powerful role culture plays in health and well-being, a key factor in preventing CVD, prompting increased attention on how shared values, norms, symbols, ethics and life practices effect the decisions and behaviors of patients, populations and practitioners alike. Cultural contexts affect human behaviors and health outcomes, and the United States (U.S.) is divided between dominant regional cultures. The American Nations model, informed by the work of cultural geographers, historians, and anthropologists, provides an analytical framework for understanding regional cultural contexts within the U.S. This model has been used to demonstrate significant regional differences in health outcomes, wellbeing, lifestyle behaviors, lifespan, and social vulnerability, with communitarian cultures consistently outperforming individualistic cultures across a broad range of phenomena. This model has significant implications for how a nation approaches health and health care, shifting from the traditional, national level one-size-fits-all paradigm to one that considers distinct regional differences based on historical settlement patterns. In this context, the American Nations model can help improve the effectiveness of health interventions by supporting a better understanding of cultural differences and the dominant U.S. cultural landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 8-12"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143756976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gizem Cifci, Katherine R. Malterer, Elizabeth C. Arendt, Tedy Sawma, Steve R. Ommen, Hartzell V. Schaff, Ray W. Squires, Amanda R. Bonikowske, Joshua R. Smith
{"title":"Impact of cardiac rehabilitation participation on functional capacity in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy following septal myectomy surgery","authors":"Gizem Cifci, Katherine R. Malterer, Elizabeth C. Arendt, Tedy Sawma, Steve R. Ommen, Hartzell V. Schaff, Ray W. Squires, Amanda R. Bonikowske, Joshua R. Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.04.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 145-146"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144056459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From illness to wellness: A focus on healthy living","authors":"Leandro Slipczuk","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144510162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea Sartorio , Luca Cristin , Chiara Dal Pont , Afshin Farzaneh-Far , Simone Romano
{"title":"Global longitudinal strain as an early marker of cardiac damage after cardiotoxic medications, a state-of-the-art review","authors":"Andrea Sartorio , Luca Cristin , Chiara Dal Pont , Afshin Farzaneh-Far , Simone Romano","doi":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pcad.2025.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ejection fraction (EF) is the principal parameter used clinically to assess cardiac function and provides prognostic information. However, significant myocardial damage can be present despite preserved EF. Recently, the measurement of left ventricle (LV) deformation by global longitudinal strain (GLS) has been introduced as a novel early marker of cardiac dysfunction. Cardiotoxicity is a frequent side effect of several drugs most notably those used in the treatment of cancer. Although oncology drugs remain the best known cardiotoxic medications, many other drugs can potentially affect LV function. The early recognition of LV dysfunction due to cardiotoxicity is important and of increasing clinical relevance particularly with the rapid pace of development of new drugs.</div><div>The aim of our review is to provide an overview of the current literature regarding utility of GLS to assess drug-induced myocardial damage. We propose that GLS is a sensitive early marker of myocardial dysfunction associated with the use of certain medications with high risk of cardiotoxicity. Thus, the use of this technique can potentially alert the clinician to myocardial toxicity before reductions in EF are seen.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21156,"journal":{"name":"Progress in cardiovascular diseases","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 92-101"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142974002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}