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  1. Personality traits and cardiovascular diseases: is it about ‘don’t worry, be happy’, or is this a deeper underlying problem?
  2. Strain–volume loops and cardiac function
  3. Estimating LV Filling Pressures Noninvasively
  4. Left Atrial Reservoir and Booster Function in HFrEF
  5. Allometric versus ratiometric normalization of left ventricular stroke volume by Doppler-echocardiography for outcome prediction in severe aortic stenosis with preserved ejection fraction
  6. Muscle strength is a major determinant of the blood pressure response to isometric stress testing: the Asklepios population study
  7. Feasibility and agreement of a novel combined echocardiographic method to measure global longitudinal strain and strain rate compared to speckle tracking and tissue Doppler imaging
  8. Prediction of filling pressures and outcome in heart failure: can we improve E/e′?
  9. Effect of Obesity on Left Atrial Strain in Persons Aged 35–55 Years (The Asklepios Study)
  10. Myocarditis Elicits Dendritic Cell and Monocyte Infiltration in the Heart and Self-Antigen Presentation by Conventional Type 2 Dendritic Cells
  11. Reversal of Aging‐Induced Increases in Aortic Stiffness by Targeting Cytoskeletal Protein‐Protein Interfaces
  12. Leukocyte telomere length and diet in the apparently healthy, middle-aged Asklepios population
  13. EFFECT OF OBESITY ON LEFT ATRIAL STRAIN IN MIDDLE AGE: THE ASKLEPIOS STUDY
  14. Decreased Exercise Tolerance in Stage B Heart Failure
  15. Pulse pressure and blood pressure components:. Is the sum more than the parts?
  16. Improving Cardiovascular Risk Prediction: A Tale of Sisyphus
  17. Ventricular-arterial coupling in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: the devil is in the details
  18. Left Ventricular Geometry, Blood Pressure, Arterial Hemodynamics, and Mortality After Ischemic Stroke ∗
  19. Leg Lifting in HFrEF, Frank-Starling, and Mitral Regurgitation ∗
  20. Myocardial Infarction Primes Autoreactive T Cells through Activation of Dendritic Cells
  21. Recommendations on the use of echocardiography in adult hypertension: a report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)
  22. Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
  23. Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
  24. MRI Assessment of Diastolic and Systolic Intraventricular Pressure Gradients in Heart Failure
  25. Afterload-induced diastolic dysfunction contributes to high filing pressures in experimental heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
  26. The use of cardiovascular imaging in prognostic stratification: Table 1
  27. CardioPulse ArticlesA brief history of the European Society of CardiologyEnvironmental hazards, air pollution, and noise as novel cardiovascular risk factorsReduce air pollution to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases!Stress and cardiovascular ...
  28. Recommendations on the Use of Echocardiography in Adult Hypertension: A Report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)†
  29. Ethnic-Specific Normative Reference Values for Echocardiographic LA and LV Size, LV Mass, and Systolic Function
  30. Recommendations on the use of echocardiography in adult hypertension: a report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)†
  31. On Cross-Sectional Associations of Leukocyte Telomere Length with Cardiac Systolic, Diastolic and Vascular Function: The Asklepios Study
  32. Effective Arterial Elastance Is Insensitive to Pulsatile Arterial Load
  33. Central blood pressure and its amplification: a final breakthrough or do we need more?
  34. Establishing reference values for central blood pressure and its amplification in a general healthy population and according to cardiovascular risk factors
  35. Longitudinal Myocardial Strain Alteration Is Associated with Left Ventricular Remodeling in Asymptomatic Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
  36. Arterial stiffness and influences of the metabolic syndrome: A cross-countries study
  37. Triiodothyronine and Free Thyroxine Levels are Differentially Associated with Metabolic Profile and Adiposity-Related Cardiovascular Risk Markers in Euthyroid Middle-Aged Subjects
  38. A meta-analysis of echocardiographic measurements of the left heart for the development of normative reference ranges in a large international cohort: the EchoNoRMAL study
  39. Family History of Cardiovascular Disease and Offspring Echocardiographic Left Ventricular Structure and Function: The Asklepios Study
  40. Thyroid Hormone Levels Within Reference Range Are Associated with Heart Rate, Cardiac Structure, and Function in Middle-Aged Men and Women
  41. Central Pulse Pressure and Its Hemodynamic Determinants in Middle-Aged Adults With Impaired Fasting Glucose and Diabetes
  42. ESC Core Curriculum for the General Cardiologist (2013)
  43. 2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
  44. 2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
  45. 2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
  46. Is myocardial revascularization safe in trainees' hands?
  47. Addition of a Novel, Protective Family History Category Allows Better Profiling of Cardiovascular Risk and Atherosclerotic Burden in the General Population. The Asklepios Study
  48. Associations of (F)T 3 and the ratio FT 3 :FT 4 with a cluster of obesity-related cardiovascular risk markers in healthy euthyroid middle-aged men and women
  49. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFFECTS ARTERIAL ELASTANCE AND SPECIFIC MEASURES OF ARTERIAL PROPERTIES IN MIDDLE AGE: THE ASKLEPIOS STUDY
  50. CENTRAL PULSE PRESSURE AND ITS HEMODYNAMIC DETERMINANTS IN MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS WITH IMPAIRED FASTING GLUCOSE AND DIABETES MELLITUS: THE ASKLEPIOS STUDY.
  51. Early and Late Systolic Wall Stress Differentially Relate to Myocardial Contraction and Relaxation in Middle-Aged Adults
  52. Echo-Doppler assessment of diastole: flow, function and haemodynamics
  53. No Shorter Telomeres in Subjects With a Family History of Cardiovascular Disease in the Asklepios Study
  54. HFpEF, Diastolic Suction, and Exercise⁎⁎Editorials published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging or the American College of Cardiology.
  55. Arterial Properties as Determinants of Time-Varying Myocardial Stress in Humans
  56. Diastolic tolerance to systolic pressures closely reflects systolic performance in patients with coronary heart disease
  57. The change in arterial stiffness over the cardiac cycle rather than diastolic stiffness is independently associated with left ventricular mass index in healthy middle-aged individuals
  58. Common Genetic Variation in the 3′- BCL11B Gene Desert Is Associated With Carotid-Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity and Excess Cardiovascular Disease Risk
  59. Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Is It Really the First Marker of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy?
  60. Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure
  61. Author's Reply
  62. The Parametrized Diastolic Filling Formalism: Application in the Asklepios Population
  63. Modest opposite associations of endogenous testosterone and oestradiol with left ventricular remodelling and function in healthy middle-aged men
  64. THE CHANGE IN PULSE WAVE VELOCITY OVER THE CARDIAC CYCLE IS INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS INDEX IN MIDDLE-AGED HEALTHY SUBJECTS
  65. European Perspectives
  66. Response to Method Errors or Unexplained Biological Information?
  67. The relationship between diet and subclinical atherosclerosis: results from the Asklepios Study
  68. Impaired Myocardial Radial Function in Asymptomatic Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Speckle-Tracking Imaging Study
  69. Left Ventricular Mass
  70. Noninvasive Assessment of Diastolic Intraventricular Pressure Gradients in a Large General Population (the Asklepios Study)
  71. Determinants of pulse wave velocity in healthy people and in the presence of cardiovascular risk factors: ‘establishing normal and reference values’
  72. O6 L’altération de la fonction radiale est associée à un remodelage ventriculaire gauche au cours du diabète de type 2
  73. O3 Détection d’une dysfonction myocardique infra-clinique par speckle tracking imaging dans une population de diabétiques de type 2 asymptomatiques
  74. Noninvasive assessment of central and peripheral arterial pressure (waveforms): implications of calibration methods
  75. P11.07 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SYSTOLIC AND DIASTOLIC CAROTID ARTERY STIFFNESS IS INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS INDEX IN HEALTHY MIDDLE-AGED SUBJECTS
  76. Distance measurements for the assessment of carotid to femoral pulse wave velocity
  77. Arterial Load and Ventricular-Arterial Coupling
  78. Systemic telomere length and preclinical atherosclerosis: the Asklepios Study
  79. Letter by Nagueh et al Regarding Article, "Tissue Doppler Imaging in the Estimation of Intracardiac Filling Pressure in Decompensated Patients With Advanced Systolic Heart Failure"
  80. Amplification of the Pressure Pulse in the Upper Limb in Healthy, Middle-Aged Men and Women
  81. Response to Bai
  82. Time-Varying Myocardial Stress and Systolic Pressure-Stress Relationship
  83. The reservoir pressure concept: the 3-element windkessel model revisited? Application to the Asklepios population study
  84. Time course and mechanisms of left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension
  85. Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography
  86. Evaluation of Noninvasive Methods to Assess Wave Reflection and Pulse Transit Time From the Pressure Waveform Alone
  87. Relation Between Left Ventricular Relaxation Rate and Arterial Loading
  88. Circulating oxidized low-density lipoprotein: a biomarker of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk?
  89. Irbesartan in Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction
  90. Determining carotid artery pressure from scaled diameter waveforms: comparison and validation of calibration techniques in 2026 subjects
  91. Lower red blood cell counts in middle‐aged subjects with shorter peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length
  92. Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Is Associated With Decreases in Cardiac Function Independent of Vascular Alterations
  93. Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography
  94. Femoral Plaques Confound the Association of Circulating Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein With Carotid Atherosclerosis in a General Population Aged 35 to 55 Years
  95. Age and gender related patterns in carotid-femoral PWV and carotid and femoral stiffness in a large healthy, middle-aged population
  96. AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR WAVE REFLECTION ASSESSMENT VIA FLOW WAVE APPROXIMATION
  97. Using Flow Waveform Approximations for Aortic Wave Reflection and Pulse Transit Time Assessment: A Critical Evaluation
  98. NMR-Based Characterization of Metabolic Alterations in Hypertension Using an Adaptive, Intelligent Binning Algorithm
  99. Three- and four-element Windkessel models: Assessment of their fitting performance in a large cohort of healthy middle-aged individuals
  100. P1.38 CONVERSION BETWEEN DEFINITIONS OF PULSE WAVE VELOCITY
  101. 07.06 LONG TERM ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE IS AN INDEPENDENT RISK FACTOR FOR ARTERIAL STIFFENING
  102. P2.23 THE RESERVOIR PRESSURE CONCEPT: THE 3-ELEMENT WINDKESSEL MODEL REVISITED? APPLICATION TO THE ASKLEPIOS POPULATION STUDY
  103. 03.05 ESTIMATED CENTRAL BLOOD PRESSURE: IMPORTANCE OF RADIAL ARTERY PRESSURE WAVEFORM CALIBRATION
  104. About left ventricular torsion, sex differences, shear strain, and diastolic heart failure
  105. Paternal age at birth is an important determinant of offspring telomere length
  106. Assessment of pressure wave reflection: getting the timing right!
  107. Endothelial Outgrowth Cells Are Not Derived From CD133 + Cells or CD45 + Hematopoietic Precursors
  108. A New Non-Invasive Method for Assessing the Intrinsic Active Strength of Human Left Ventricular Tissue
  109. Telomere length and cardiovascular risk factors in a middle‐aged population free of overt cardiovascular disease
  110. Validation of a new automated IMT measurement algorithm
  111. Noninvasive (Input) Impedance, Pulse Wave Velocity, and Wave Reflection in Healthy Middle-Aged Men and Women
  112. Rationale, design, methods and baseline characteristics of the Asklepios Study
  113. P.081 VALIDITY OF THE ONE-THIRD RULE TO CALCULATE MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE
  114. 06.07 EVALUATION OF A METHOD OF WAVE REFLECTION ASSESSMENT VIA TRIANGULAR FLOW WAVE APPROXIMATION
  115. P.073 INTEGRATED ARTERIAL SYSTEM ANALYSIS IN A POPULATION OF HEALTHY MIDDLE-AGED MEN AND WOMEN: AUGMENTATION INDEX VERSUS WAVE REFLECTION INDICES
  116. P.055 COMMON CAROTID ARTERY STIFFNESS: MORE SENSITIVE TO AGE AND GENDER RELATED LARGE ARTERY STIFFENING THAN AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY?
  117. Influence of sex on arterial stiffening evaluated using a pressure-dependent, geometry-independent stiffness index
  118. 385 Non-invasive assessment of arterial pressure wave reflection in evaluation of large artery function and cardiac load: can we do without ultrasound?
  119. Transient Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy With an “Inverted Takotsubo” Contractile Pattern
  120. Noninvasive assessment of left ventricular and myocardial contractility in middle-aged men and women: disparate evolution above the age of 50?
  121. Primary impairment of left ventricular function in Marfan syndrome
  122. Risk factors for primary ventricular fibrillation during acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  123. Transthoracic Tissue Doppler Imaging of the Atria: A Novel Method to Determine the Atrial Fibrillation Cycle Length
  124. Maximum oxygen uptake at peak exercise in elderly patients with coronary artery disease and preserved left ventricular function
  125. Right sided infective endocarditis: Tempus fugit!
  126. Aortic reflection coefficients and their association with global indexes of wave reflection in healthy controls and patients with Marfan's syndrome
  127. Relationship between QRS duration, left ventricular volumes and prevalence of nonviability in patients with coronary artery disease and severe left ventricular dysfunction
  128. Diabetes and impaired fasting glucose as predictors of morbidity and mortality in male coronary artery disease patients with reduced left ventricular function
  129. Does pressure wave reflection contribute to aortic root dilatation in patients with Marfan disease?
  130. Non-invasive assessment of ventriculo-arterial coupling in a middle-aged population of healthy men and women
  131. Normalizing the Langewouters pressure-area relationship: a novel geometry-independent description of large artery stiffness?
  132. Prevalence of Mechanical Dyssynchrony in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Left Ventricular Function (a Report from the Belgian Multicenter Registry on Dyssynchrony)
  133. Incremental prognostic value of combined perfusion and function assessment during myocardial gated SPECT in patients aged 75 years or older
  134. Carotid Tonometry Versus Synthesized Aorta Pressure Waves for the Estimation of Central Systolic Blood Pressure and Augmentation Index
  135. The use of Tissue Doppler Imaging for the assessment of changes in myocardial structure and function in inherited cardiomyopathies
  136. Effects of age, gender, and left ventricular mass on septal mitral annulus velocity (E′) and the ratio of transmitral early peak velocity to E′ (E/E′)
  137. Resting LVEF and transient ischemic dilatation index are predictors of all-cause mortality in patients aged 75 years or older
  138. Post stress endsystolic volume and kidney function are independent determinants of NTproBNP levels in elderly patients with coronary artery disease
  139. Global and regional parameters of dyssynchrony in ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy
  140. Time intervals and global cardiac function. Use and limitations
  141. Functional analysis of the common carotid artery
  142. Familiale aandoeningen van de thoracale aorta
  143. Familiale aandoeningen van de thoracale aorta
  144. 749 Heterogeneity of vessel distension within the common carotid artery wall: implications for functional analysis
  145. Effects of postural changes on cardiac function in healthy subjects
  146. Beat-to-beat modulation of right and left ventricular positive dP/dt by afterload
  147. Relationship between QRS duration and left ventricular volumes in patients with heart failure due to coronary artery disease
  148. Prevalence of nonviable myocardium in the inferolateral wall in potential candidates for biventricular pacing and underlying coronary artery disease
  149. Doppler Estimation of Filling Pressures in a Patient with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  150. WITHDRAWN: Effects of Postural Changes on Cardiac Function in Healthy Subjects
  151. Stem Cells for the Heart, Are We There Yet?
  152. Herstel van het sinusritme versus de controle van het kamerantwoord in de behandeling van voorkamerfibrillatie
  153. Herstel van het sinusritme versus de controle van het kamerantwoord in de behandeling van voorkamerfibrillatie
  154. Diastolic dysfunction, infarct size, and exercise capacity in remote myocardial infarction: a combined approach of mitral E-wave deceleration time and color M-mode flow propagation velocity
  155. Diastolic Dysfunction and Hypertension
  156. Pressure relaxation of the left ventricle and filling pressures
  157. Nonlinear biphasic relationship between the time constant tau and load
  158. Effects of nicardipine and urapidil on length-dependent regulation of myocardial function in coronary artery surgery patients
  159. The Effects of β-Adrenergic Stimulation on the Length-Dependent Regulation of Myocardial Function in Coronary Surgery Patients
  160. The Effects of β-Adrenergic Stimulation on the Length-Dependent Regulation of Myocardial Function in Coronary Surgery Patients
  161. Length-dependent Regulation of Left Ventricular Function in Coronary Surgery Patients 
  162. Load dependence of left ventricular contraction and relaxation.¶Effects of caffeine
  163. Afterload induced changes in myocardial relaxation A mechanism for diastolic dysfunction
  164. Contraction-Relaxation Coupling and Impaired Left Ventricular Performance in Coronary Surgery Patients 
  165. LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY AND CARDIAC FUNCTION IN HYPERTENSION
  166. Sodium nitroprusside enhances in vivo left ventricular function in β-adrenergically stimulated rabbit hearts
  167. Effects of calcium on left ventricular function early after cardiopulmonary bypass
  168. Relaxation–Systolic Pressure Relation
  169. Effects of lidoflazine on left ventricular function in patients
  170. Recovery of Systolic and Diastolic Left Ventricular Function Early after Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  171. Personality as independent predictor of long-term mortality in patients with coronary heart disease
  172. Nonuniform course of left ventricular pressure fall and its regulation by load and contractile state.
  173. Endothelial-Ventricular Interaction in Normal and Diseased Hearts
  174. Role of the Endocardial Endothelium in the Regulation of Myocardial Function
  175. Diastolic failure: Pathophysiology and therapeutic implications
  176. Diastolic dysfunction in post-cardiac surgical management
  177. Alteration of left ventricular endocardial function by intracavitary high-power ultrasound interacts with volume, inotropic state, and alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation.
  178. Mechanisms of Endocardial Endothelium Modulation of Myocardial Performance
  179. Ventricular relaxation ana diastolic function in cardiac failure
  180. Regulation of left ventricular pressure fall
  181. Influence of loading patterns on peak length-tension relation and on relaxation in cardiac muscle
  182. Abnormal wall movements of the right ventricle and both atria in patients with pericardial effusion as indicators of cardiac tamponade
  183. Left ventricular function in athletes: analysis of relaxation
  184. Analysis of relaxation in the evaluation of ventricular function of the heart
  185. Ventricular Relaxation
  186. Cardiac Involvement in Juvenile Ceroid Lipofuscinosis of the Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjögren Type: Prospective Noninvasive Findings in Two Siblings
  187. Pathophysiologic Aspects of Myocardial Relaxation and End-Diastolic Stiffness of Cardiac Ventricles
  188. Vessel wall tracking based on the modified autocorrelation estimator