One of the most challenging nonpharmacological interventions to contrast HF progression is exercise training, which is an approach used, since early 1990s, in heart failure with reduced ejection ...

Objective The semiquantitative urine dipstick test is a simple and convenient method that is available in the smallest community-based healthcare clinics. We sought to clarify the prognostic ...

Quantitative assessment of myocardial stiffness is crucial to understand and evaluate cardiac biomechanics and function. Despite the recent progresses of ultrasonic shear wave elastography, ...