Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Cardiovascular Diseases ; ethnology ; prevention & control ; Humans

Cardiovascular Diseases ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors ; administration & dosage ; adverse effects ; therapeutic use

Accreditation ; Chest Pain ; etiology ; China ; Humans ; Myocardial Infarction ; complications ; therapy ; Pain Clinics

Acute Coronary Syndrome ; therapy ; Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary ; Humans

In 21th century, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) technique enters in rapid development stage in China. From 2009, quality control system of PCI runs in national scale. Since then, the national quality control center estab?lished cooperative relationship with the provincial quality control centers. Official website and quality control tools were im?proved. PCI data were collected and analyzed annually, and then reported to the regulatory body and published to the public. Audit was run irregularly. Quality control centers were also involved in some other related affairs such as training course and admission. The quality control system lead PCI in China to an improved daily practice and control PCI application all overthe country in terms of data. In the future, the quality control techniques and teamwork will be further improved. And quality evaluation system and management team will be perfected gradually. Quality control will be extended from PCI to coronary heart disease and combined with audit of coronary heart disease. According to the quality control data, the quality and its rank of medical centers will be published in certain range. So that we can provide better care to the coronary heart disease pa?tients.

Objective:To investigate the association of renal insufficiency and clinical outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome(ACS). Methods: The study was a multi-centre register study including 3 589 ACS patients coming from 39 centers across China who had received percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI) prior to 1st February, 2007. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated for all patients using the 4-variable MDRD equation with the serum creatinine obtained before angiography. The association between renal insufficiency and clinical outcomes and the presence of in-hospital death and bleeding was studied by Fisher’s exact test. Multi-variable analysis on the risk factors of in-hospital bleeding was done by logistic regression test. Results: The mean age of the study population was (61.74?11.37) years (ranging from 23 years to 92 years)and 76.5% (2 746/3 589) of the population was male. Only 90 patients (2.51%) were known to have chronic kidney disease at the time of admission and 144 patients(4.01%) had serum creatintine levels above 133 ?mol/L. However, after the evaluation of renal status by the MDRD equation, 2 250 patients (63.1%)showed a reduction in eGFR of less than 90 mL/min, of whom, 472 (13.1%) even reached the level of moderate renal insufficiency (eGFR

Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Humeral Fractures ; complications ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Radiography ; Shoulder Dislocation ; diagnostic imaging ; etiology ; therapy

Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary ; Humans ; Myocardial Infarction ; therapy

Objective To investigate blood pressure control the glucose metabolism,cardiovascular risk factors of patients who were regularly followed up at professional hypertension clinics in China.Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 32 004 patients from 127 professional hypertension clinics across China.The questionnaires included case history and related treatment physical examination and laboratory biochemical tests were also taken at the same time.Results The mean blood pressure of overall population was (151 ± 13)/(92 ± 10) mm Hg(1 mm Hg =0.133 kPa).Totally 3424 patients (10.7％) had never taken any anti-hypertension medicine.Among patients treated with anti-hypertension drugs,19 818 were of mono-therapy (69.3％) and 8762 were of combination therapy.The most frequently used drug was reninangiotensin system inhibitor,followed by calcium-channel blocker.Fixed compound preparations accounted for 15.6％.The overall blood pressure control rate (＜ 140/90 mm Hg) was 26.8％,among them,27.7％,30.0％,25.4％ and 21.3％ patients were complicated with coronary heart disease,diabetes mellitus,kidney diseases and cerebral stroke respectively.About 70.3％ hypertensive patients had abnormal glucose metabolism whose mean glycosylated hemoglobin (GHbA1 c) was 7.84％,which was significantly higher than 7.0％,the target value defined by ADA.Even among them,20.2％ patients have never received any anti-diabetic drugs.Low-risk and medium-risk patients accounted for 16.0％.Totally 48.0％ patients were classified in high-risk group and 36.0％ in very high risk group.About half of all patients had different target organ dysfunction.About 49.0％ patients had associated comorbidities.Conclusions Co-existence of hypertension and abnormal glucose metabolism is common in Chinese population.Among these patients,target organ dysfunction and comorbidities are prevalent,but blood pressure is only effectively controlled in less than 30％ patients.Low proportion of combination therapy is one of the reasons for unsatisfied control of blood pressure.It indicates that effective management of hypertension is urgent.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was done successfully in 33 patients,6 of them were associated with 8 acute coronary events. Radioimmunoassay was used for the determination of plasmaET,AII and CGRP levels. The samples were drawn successively from femoral artery just before PTCA and 0min, 15min,1h,3h,24h after the final balloon inflation. The results showed that the levels of plasma AII were higher in the complication group than those of noncomplication group before PTCA and 0min, 24h after PTCA. The differences in plasma ET levels before and after PTCA between the complication group and the non-complication group were not significant. The level of plasma CGRP was decreased at 15min and returned to basal level at 1h after PTCA in the complication group.In the patients without complication,there were no significant differences in their plasma CGRP levels before and after PTCA. All + ET/CGRP in the complication group raised more rapidly,recovered later and the peak appeared earlier than that of non-complication group. For a better understanding pathophysiologic meaning of the above changes,further studies are needed.