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These data suggest that typical atrial flutter constitutes a manifestation of previously asymptomatic CAD. Due to the inclusion criteria, CAD has to be considered silent and chronic in most of the patients. Therefore, the presence of typical atrial flutter in formerly healthy patients should raise suspicion of otherwise silent CAD and initiate further investigations and risk stratification with particular emphasis on the individual CHA2DS2-VASc-Scores.
Left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) is common and associated with adverse events in patients receiving coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, the prognosis of mild LVSD has not been clearly described. We aimed to evaluate the mid-term outcomes of patients with mild LVSD following CABG.

This multicentre cohort study using propensity score matching took place from December 2012 to October 2019 in Jiangsu Province, China, with a mean and maximum follow-up of 3.2 and 7.2 years, respectively. Patients were classified to normal left ventricular systolic function (left ventricular ejection fraction ≥53%) and mild LVSD (left ventricular ejection fraction >40%/<53%). The primary outcomes were death from all causes and death from cardiovascular causes. The secondary outcomes were heart failure, myocardial infarction, repeat revascularization and a composite of all mentioned outcomes, including death from all causes (major adverse events).

A total of 581 pairs were formed after matching. In-hospital death (1.5% vs 2.1%, P = 0.51) did not differ between 2 cohorts. Throughout 7 years, mild LVSD was associated with higher rates of death from all causes [hazard ratio (HR) 0.59, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.39-0.89; P = 0.012], death from cardiovascular causes (HR 0.55, 95% CI 0.36-0.90; P = 0.017), heart failure (HR 0.60, 95% CI 0.37-0.93; P = 0.023) and major adverse events (HR 0.66, 95% CI 0.49-0.91; P = 0.009). There was no difference in the rates of myocardial infarction and repeat revascularization.

Mild LVSD was associated with a worse mid-term prognosis in patients following CABG.
Mild LVSD was associated with a worse mid-term prognosis in patients following CABG.The benefits of physical activity are well established, leading to both cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular benefits, improving quality of life and reducing mortality. Despite such striking body of evidence, patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are often discouraged by health professionals to practice physical activity and personalised exercise prescription is an exception rather than the rule. FDA-approved Drug Library in vitro As a result, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients are on average less active and spend significantly less time at work or recreational physical activity than the general population. Exercise restriction derives from the evidence that vigorous exercise may occasionally trigger life-threatening arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. However, while participation in competitive sports should be prudentially denied, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients can benefit from the positive effects of regular physical activity, aimed to reduce the risk of comorbidities and improve the quality of life. Based on this rationale, exercise should be prescribed and titrated just like a drug in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients, considering individual characteristics, symptoms, past medical history, objective individual response to exercise, previous training experience and stage of disease. Type, frequency, duration, and intensity should be defined on a personal basis. Yet exercise prescription in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and its long-term effects represent major gaps in our current knowledge and require extensive research. We here review existing evidence regarding benefits and hazards of physical activity, with specific focus on viable modalities for tailored and safe exercise prescription in these patients, highlighting future developments and relevant research targets.
Updated seroprevalence studies of infections in migrants may aid the design of tailored vaccination and prevention programmes. The objective of this study was to describe the seroprevalence rates for potentially transmissible viral infections in migrants attended at a referral centre in a major European city.

Descriptive analysis of seroprevalence of vaccine-preventable and non-vaccine-preventable infections in migrants attended at a centre in Madrid, Spain (2018-19). Recorded variables included age, gender, country of birth/continent of origin, time from arrival to Spain until first clinic visit, rubella, measles, mumps, varicella (VZV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV serology.

In total, 468 patients were included, 135 females (28.8%) and 333 males (71.2%), mean age 30.4years. The majority of patients were from Africa (52.5%, of which 88.2% from sub-Saharan Africa), followed by Latin America (38.5%) and other areas (9%). Seroprevalence for tested migra vaccine-preventable and transmissible infections according to gender, age range and area of origin were observed. Tailored screening, vaccination and prevention strategies in potentially vulnerable migrant groups should be designed.Public health is characterized by social justice where it has the obligation to 'give what is due' and address the needs of the entire community. Recent correspondence calls for the physical, financial and mental support of the government to our 'distressed' healthcare workers. However, this seems to insufficient since the spiritual well-being is set aside and Filipinos are known to be religious people by their very nature. I therefore propose and highlight the use of a holistic approach which emphasizes the needed support which caters the faith dimension of our frontliners. The proposals include the availability of human resource and religious practices in both public and private hospitals where the healthcare workers do their battle relentlessly.
Do female adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer have a higher risk of subsequent infertility diagnosis than AYAs without cancer?

Female AYAs with breast, hematological, thyroid and melanoma cancer have a higher risk of subsequent infertility diagnosis.

Cancer therapies have improved substantially, leading to dramatic increases in survival. As survival improves, there is an increasing emphasis on optimizing the quality of life among cancer survivors. Many cancer therapies increase the risk of infertility, but we lack population-based studies that quantify the risk of subsequent infertility diagnosis in female AYAs with non-gynecological cancers. The literature is limited to population-based studies comparing pregnancy or birth rates after cancer against unexposed women, or smaller studies using markers of the ovarian reserve as a proxy of infertility among female survivors of cancer.

We conducted a population-based cohort study using universal health care databases in the province of Ontario, Canada.
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