冠心病介入治疗指南与医生的理解、掌握与运用的冲突和平衡

介入治疗是冠心病治疗的重要手段,介入治疗时机、方式、介入手术和外科手术以及内科治疗的选择,是关系到患者生命的首要问题。现从循证医学及冠心病治疗指南与医生的理解、掌握与运用的角度,探讨有利于患者的医疗行为。在临床工作中寻求医生对指南的理解、运用的一致和平衡。     

血清Cys C的检测对肾移植术后患者肾功能评价的临床意义

探讨分析血清胱抑素C(Cys C)水平在肾移植术后患者肾功能监测中的应用价值.对25例肾移植成功患者在术前、术后第1、3、5、7、10天的血清Cys C、Scr、β2-MG、BUN水平进行动态监测,同时随机抽取健康体检者中的20例作为对照组.发现移植组的Cys C、Scr、β2-MG、BUN水平在术前均明显高于健康对照组(P＜0.01).这四项指标在手术后第一天都有所下降,且术后第1、3、5、7、10天的水平都比术前低(P＜0.01).四项指标与GFR的关系均为显著性负相关(P＜0.01),其中血清Cys C与GFR的相关性最好.Cys C、Scr、β2-MG、BUN检测后的ROC曲线下面积分别是:0.937、0.838、0.798、0.772,其差异都具有统计学意义(P＜0.05).血清Cys C优于Scr、β2-MG、BUN,在肾移植患者术后的动态监测中具有重要的临床应用价值.     

骨桥蛋白在心肌梗死后心力衰竭中研究进展

骨桥蛋白是一种糖基化的多功能蛋白,其具有激活细胞内信号传导、参与炎症细胞的趋化聚集、促进肿瘤的生长迁移等多种生物学功能。近年来研究表明其在心肌梗死后的炎症反应、心室重塑、细胞外基质沉积及肾素-血管紧张素-醛固酮系统的过度激活中具有重要的作用,同时其与心肌梗死后心力衰竭的严重程度及顸后亦密切相关。本文就骨桥蛋白在心肌梗死后心力衰竭中研究进展做一综述。     

达标心率对缺血型心肌病和扩张型心肌病患者的影响

为观察达标心率对缺血型心肌病（ICM）和扩张型心肌病（DCM）患者预后的影响,所有入选ICM和DCM患者均给予常规抗心力衰竭药物及β受体阻滞剂（β-b）治疗,使心率维持于55次/分~60次/分,观察随访1年时的病死率、再入院率、舒张末期左室内径（LVEDd）、左室射血分数（LVEF）、氨基末端脑利钠肽前体（NT-proBNP）水平来评估二者的预后。结果显示,随访结束时ICM患者较DCM患者再入院率低（P=0.037）,LVEDd低（P=0.034）,LVEF高（P=0.028）,收缩压高（P=0.029）;对于ICM患者,随访结束时较出院时LVEDd低（P=0.047）,LVEF高（P=0.018）,收缩压高（P=0.042）。因此,心率达标对ICM患者有助于改善预后,对DCM患者改善不明显,ICM患者心率达标时获益更大。     

Psychological correlates of early onset of ischemic heart disease in a sample drawn from a Pakistani population

Even in the presence of substantial empirical evidence which proves that psychological risk factors play a significant role in onset of ischemic heart disease (IHD), in Pakistan researchers have not paid much attention to exploring these factors. This research was mainly undertaken to investigate whether psychological factors such as stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and hostility in their intense states are prevalent within the indigenous patients with IHD. It was hypothesized that: High levels of perceived stress will significantly increase risk for IHD versus lower levels of perceived stress; high levels of anxiety will significantly increase the risk for IHD versus lower levels of anxiety; high levels of depression will increase the chances of IHD versus lower levels. Likewise, it was proposed that elevated trait anger will significantly increase risk for IHD versus lower levels of trait anger and that higher levels of hostility significantly increase risk for IHD versus lower levels. A case–control research design was employed to conduct this study. To investigate the association of the abovementioned factors with IHD and to find whether these factors differ between cases and controls, we solicited a sample of 190 patients with confirmed diagnosis of IHD and 380 age‐ and gender‐matched community controls, who were free of IHD, aged 35 to 55 years. Standardized tools to measure psychological factors were translated and semistandardized into the national language and their psychometric properties were predetermined before use in this study. To infer the proposed hypotheses, multivariate binary logistic regression analysis was carried out. Results highlight significant association between stress, depression, anxiety, anger, and IHD. Implications for the implementation of routine screening for psychological factors, particularly stress, depression and anger, are proposed.     

A Unified Framework for the Prioritization of Organ Transplant Patients: Analytic Hierarchy Process,Sensitivity and Multifactor Robustness Study

Fair and equitable allocation of donor organs in the USA is a daunting yet necessary task, which can mean the difference between life and death for patients on transplant waiting lists. This paper proposes a multi‐criterion decision‐making model using the analytic hierarchy process to allow for an allocation decision to be made on the basis of urgency, efficiency, benefit and equity. These four perspectives and objectives can be broken down into both quantitative and qualitative measures, which can be easily combined and weighted through group consensus. The proposed model overcomes the limitations of a single type of system, integrates the views of many organ allocation philosophies, improves the decision maker's ability to collaborate, helps justify the decision and reaches the optimal result. In addition, the proposed profile matrix allows decision makers to graphically trade off criteria against each other and to clearly articulate the decision rationale. Our computational study suggests that the proposed model not only satisfactorily serves the objectives of many constituents, but also remains noticeably robust under various criteria‐weight‐change scenarios. It improves stakeholder confidence in the organ allocation procedure, maximizes the usefulness of the organ and enhances welfare to society. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Associations between heart rate,perceived heart rate,and anxiety during acute psychological stress

ABSTRACT

Background: Acute psychological stress elicits increases in heart rate (HR) and anxiety. Theories propose associations between HR, perceived HR, and anxiety during stress. However, anxiety is often measured as a unidimensional construct which limits a comprehensive understanding of these relationships.

Objectives: This research explored whether HR reactivity or perceived HR change was more closely associated with cognitive and somatic anxiety during acute psychological stress.

Design: Two laboratory-based studies were conducted.

Methods: In a single laboratory session, healthy male (N?=?71; study 1) and female (N?=?70; study 2) university students completed three laboratory psychological stress tasks (counterbalanced), each with a preceding baseline. Heart rate, perceived HR change, and cognitive and somatic anxiety intensity and interpretation of anxiety symptoms were assessed immediately following each task. Data were aggregated across tasks.

Results: Actual HR change was unrelated to anxiety intensity, but was associated with more debilitative interpretations of anxiety (study 2). Perceptions of HR change were consistently associated with greater intensity of cognitive (study 1) and somatic (study 1 and 2) anxiety.

Conclusions: Perceived HR rather than actual HR is more closely associated with anxiety intensity during psychological stress. The findings have implications for stress management and the clinical treatment of anxiety symptoms.     

Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity to an ecologically valid multitasking stressor

Previous research investigating the influence of Type D personality on cardiovascular reactivity to stress in healthy young adults is somewhat mixed. The present study sought to investigate this question using an ecologically valid laboratory stressor. Beat-to-beat blood pressure and heart rate were measured in 77 healthy young adults during exposure to multitasking stress. Mood and background stress were both associated with Type D personality when Type D was conceptualised as a dimensional construct, with less robust findings observed using the traditional dichotomous typological approach. However, the continuous Type D construct added limited predictive value of the self-report measures above that of its constituent components, negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI). Further, an inverse relationship between the continuous Type D construct and blood pressure reactivity to multitasking stress was observed. In summary, our findings suggest that Type D personality is predictive of blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress in healthy individuals when Type D is considered as a dimensional construct and the independent influence of NA and SI is controlled for. Further, our findings suggest that Type D does not predict additional variance in mood and background stress above that of NA and SI when these constituent factors are considered independently.     

慢性心力衰竭的早期识别及预防

慢性心力衰竭(心衰)的预防是全球范围急待解决的公众健康问题.以往的流行病学研究已经证明了心衰发生的危险因素及其标志性指标(既A期心衰).发现有心衰的高危因素的个体是心衰预防的关键步骤.高血压和冠心病是最常见的心衰危险因素,糖尿病、心脏瓣膜病、血脂异常及肾功能不全与心衰的危险性高度相关.但无论是有这些心衰危险因素的患者(A期)或已经有心脏结构异常但还无临床症状的患者(B期),还是已经发展为有临床症状的心衰患者(C期及D期),都可能被忽视而不能快速诊断及适当治疗.因此,提高公众关注心衰意识将有助于正确的诊断及治疗,提高患者对心衰指南的依从性,而且更重要的是重视易导致心衰的危险因素,从而指导治疗.     

养老机构冠心病患者服药依从性现状及影响因素

采用Morisky推荐的MAQ对锦州市养老机构中153名冠心痛患者的服药依从性进行测评,探讨冠心病患者的服药依从性现状及影响因素.结果显示,养老机构冠心病患者服药依从性差的比率为81.7％,影响服药依从性的因素为文化程度、服药种类、医疗背景、入住年限.养老机构的护理人员应对上述因素给予更多的关注,从而提高其服药依从性,进而提升其临床治疗效果.