Sustained glomerular hyperfiltration and hypertrophy can lead to glomerular injury and progressive kidney damage. This article explores the relationship between obesity and chronic kidney disease, ...

Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, British Heart Foundation Laboratories, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr H E Montgomery British Heart Foundation Laboratories, Royal Free & University College ...

1 Operating Room, North China Medical and Health Group Xingtai General Hospital, Xingtai, China 2 Department of Nursing, North China Medical and Health Group Xingtai General Hospital, Xingtai, China ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy is a bipolar response, starting as an adaptive response to the hemodynamic challenge, but over time develops maladaptive pathology partly due to microvascular rarefaction ...

Dr Helms explains that recent research compared a dumbbell lateral raise to a cable lateral raise, finding no significant difference between groups in terms of the regional hypertrophy and ...

The aim of the present study was to define whether Rad plays an important role in mediating cardiac hypertrophy. Methods and Results— We document for the first time that levels of Rad mRNA and protein ...

Objectives: In this study, we investigated whether pioglitazone affects cardiomyocyte apoptosis and hypertrophy by regulating the VEGFR-2 signaling pathway. Methods: Cardiomyocytes were enzymatically ...