Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn

..The purpose of the study was to explore perceptions of public health experts from Central and Eastern European countries on public health challenges in their countries...

..Blood pressure control is often insufficient in secondary prevention. The objective of the present study was to determine predictors for long-term elevated blood pressure (BP) in patients after coronary events...

..The objective of this study is, therefore, to analyse direct and indirect costs in patients with hypercholesterolemia and to determine predictors of costs...

..The aim of our study was to assess both generic and disease-specific HRQoL in patients with pancreatic cancer...

..The objective of the present study was to assess knowledge of stroke risk factors and to determine factors associated with knowledge...

..The objective of the present study was to compare acute and follow-up management between men and women after stroke and transitory ischemic attacks, adjusting for potential confounders...

..Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive cancer with a low survival time. So far, there have been no studies assessing direct and indirect costs in individual patients...

..Current guidelines, therefore, recommend regular physical activity...

..The objective of the present study was to analyse the current regional variation in cardiovascular mortality within Europe...

..The SF-12 summary scales showed a small to moderate responsiveness to change in patients after stroke. Responsiveness to change was higher in patients with increased symptom severity...

..In patients with acute stroke, systemic thrombolysis needs to be administered within 3 hours of symptom onset. The aim of the present study was to reduce prehospital delays in a population-based intervention...

..The study objective was to compare mortality from ischaemic heart disease between former East and West Germany since reunification...

..63, -0.52), and CABG as indication for admission (1.68; 95% CI: 0.36, 3.01). The identification of predictors of HRQoL in the present study may aid in the further development and evaluation of cardiac rehabilitation programmes...

..Aspects of care such as efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency have to be taken into account prior to the implementation of any new antihypertensive medication into routine medical care...

..To investigate whether a shorter health status instrument, the short form (SF)-12, is comparable with its longer version, the SF-36, for measuring health related quality of life of patients with coronary heart disease...

..The objectives of the present study were to determine prospectively return to work and its predictors in patients after cardiac rehabilitation...

..Secondary objectives include the assessment of compliance, cardiovascular events, and health-related quality of life...

..We assessed general knowledge on and behavior during an acute stroke with particular emphasis on prehospital temporal delays and a focus on the high-risk group of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF)...

..To determine the accuracy of patient self-reports of specific cardiovascular diagnoses and to identify individual patient characteristics that influence the accuracy...

..In 2006, a new TNM classification system was proposed for the staging and grading of upper GEP NETs...

..Coronary care is inversely related to mortality from ischaemic heart disease. The objective of the present study was, therefore, to compare cardiovascular medication in East and West German patients following cardiac rehabilitation...

..To determine whether a compliance-enhancing program could increase the level of lipid control in patients treated with rosuvastatin...

..Our aim was to analyze trends in mortality from cerebrovascular diseases in the formerly divided western and eastern parts of Germany since the unification...

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..The objectives of this study were to assess the use of and attitudes regarding the use of risk scores among GPs and to identify possible barriers to use...

..The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a proposal for TNM staging and grading for midgut and hindgut NETs...

..More research is necessary to further investigate gender differences in stroke knowledge with specific focus on how to use these differences to improve public health campaigns...

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..Studies have compared costs and complication rates of outpatient versus inpatient pacemaker implantations but little is known on the subjective experience of the procedure by patients...

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..Thus, the aim of this meta-analysis and systematic review was to compare the effectiveness of these two prosthetic bypass materials (Dacron and PTFE)...

..CONCLUSION: There are considerable delays between stroke symptom onset and ED arrival. Programs to improve awareness of patients with stroke to seek medical help immediately may reduce unnecessary delays to ED arrival...