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Cardiac Auscultation in the Older Adult

Murmurs are characterized by their grade, pitch, timing in the cardiac cycle, change in intensity, quality, location heard best, and radiation. Systolic murmurs. Almost all systolic murmurs begin in ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Bilateral Diaphragmatic Contraction Synchronous with Cardiac Systole

ABNORMAL, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm are generally quite rapid and unrelated in rate or time of occurrence to the cardiac cycle. Rarely, however, the left leaf of the diaphragm has been ...
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Study: Persons’ sensitivity to external stimuli also depends on their cardiac cycle

A person's sensitivity to external stimuli depends not only on the state of their nervous system, but also on their cardiac cycle. Usually we do not notice our heartbeat, paying attention to it only ...
BMJ

Biological markers of cardiac damage are not related to measures of cardiac systolic and diastolic function using cardiovascular magnetic resonance and echocardiography after ...

8 Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to Mathew Wilson, Research Centre for Sport and Exercise Performance, School of ...
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Systolic and Diastolic Left Ventricular Dysfunction: From Risk Factors to Overt Heart Failure

Group 3 – Severely impaired relaxation 1 (3.6%) 2 (11.1%) 7 (38.9%) 8 (44.4%) Values are number of subjects (%). Impaired relaxation (group 1) indicates low age-specific E:A and normal E:E'; elevated ...
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Targeted Deletion of Titin N2B Region Leads to Diastolic Dysfunction and Cardiac Atrophy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 104, No. 9 (Feb. 27, 2007), pp. 3444-3449 (6 pages) Titin is a giant protein that is in charge of the assembly and ...