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Sildenafil citrate use and the incidence of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy by Gorkin, L, Hvidsten, K, Sobel, R E, Siegel, R

“…Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) has been reported rarely in men after taking sildenafil or other phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors for…”
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Discontinuation of and changes in treatment after start of new courses of antihypertensive drugs: a study of a United Kingdom population by Jones, J K, Gorkin, L, Lian, J F, Staffa, J A, Fletcher, A P

“…Abstract Objective: To evaluate the incidence of discontinuation of and changes in treatment after newly prescribed courses of antihypertensive drugs of the…”
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Methods for Assessing Quality of Life in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) by I. Wiklund, L. Gorkin, Pawitan, Y., E. Schron, J. Schoenberger, L. L. Jared, S. Shumaker

“…The CAST was a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled multicentre trial of antiarrhythmic medications designed to suppress ventricular arrhythmias in…”
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Clinical trial enrollers vs. nonenrollers: The Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) Recruitment and Enrollment Assessment in Clinical Trials (REACT) project by Gorkin, Larry, Schron, Eleanor B., Handshaw, Kathy, Shea, Steven, Kinney, Marguerite R., Branyon, Martha, Campion, Jeanne, Bigger, J.Thomas, Sylvia, Susan C., Duggan, Jeanette, Stylianou, Mario, Lancaster, Scott, Ahern, David K., Follick, Michael J.

“…The Recruitment and Enrollment Assessment in Clinical Trials (REACT) was a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-sponsored substudy to the Cardiac…”
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Quality of Life among Patients Post-Myocardial Infarction at Baseline in the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) Trial by L. Gorkin, M. J. Follick, E. Geltman, Hamm, P., J. Sollano, S. Sylvia, Jacobson, K., M. J. Jacobson, B. S. Cochrane, B. Sussex, Klein, M., G. Gaudette, Goldman, S., D. Carrol, R. Holcombe, D. K. Abern

“…A quality of life ancillary study was incorporated into the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) trial of captopril versus placebo among patients who…”
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Baseline Quality of Life as a Predictor of Mortality and Hospitalization in 5,025 Patients With Congestive Heart Failure by Konstam, Varda, Salem, Deeb, Pouleur, Hubert, Kostis, John, Gorkin, Larry, Shumaker, Sally, Mottard, Isabelle, Woods, Pat, Konstam, Marvin A., Yusuf, Salim

“…This study examined the independent relation of health-related quality of life (HRQL) to mortality and congestive heart failure (CHF)-related hospitalizations…”
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Relation of sociodemographic, clinical, and quality-of-life variables to adherence in the cardiac arrhythmia suppression trial by Schron, E B, Brooks, M M, Gorkin, L, Kellen, J C, Morris, M, Campion, J, Shumaker, S A, Corum, J

“…Clearly, age and education are important factors for predicting adherence in CAST, given that they appear in all three regressions. Moreover, the 4-month and…”
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Quality of life post-myocardial infarction: effects of a transtelephonic coronary intervention system by Follick, M J, Gorkin, L, Smith, T W, Capone, R J, Visco, J, Stablein, D

“…The impact of an outpatient, risk-management system, including a transtelephonic electrocardiographic monitor and lidocaine injector, on the quality of life in…”
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Improvement of outcomes after coronary artery bypass: A randomized trial comparing intraoperative high versus low mean arterial pressure by Gold, Jeffrey P., Charlson, Mary E., Williams-Russo, Pamela, Szatrowski, Ted P., Peterson, Janey C., Pirraglia, Paul A., Hartman, Gregg S., Yao, Fun Sun F., Hollenberg, James P., Barbut, Denise, Hayes, Joseph G., Thomas, Stephen J., Purcell, Mary Helen, Mattis, Steven, Gorkin, Larry, Post, Martin, Krieger, Karl H., Isom, O.Wayne

“…Background The objective of this randomized clinical trial of elective coronary artery bypass grafting was to investigate whether intraoperative mean arterial…”
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Effect of the Antiarrhythmic Agent Moricizine on Survival after Myocardial Infarction

“…LEFT ventricular dysfunction and ventricular premature depolarizations have been shown to predict mortality after myocardial infarction. 1 , 2 The Cardiac…”
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Depressive symptomatology in coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients by Pirraglia, Paul A., Peterson, Janey C., Williams-Russo, Pamela, Gorkin, Larry, Charlson, Mary E.

“…Depression is commonly reported in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients. This study assesses the relationship of preoperative characteristics,…”
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Biobehavioral variables and mortality or cardiac arrest in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study (CAPS) by Ahern, David K., Gorkin, Larry, Anderson, Jeffrey L., Tierney, Camlin, Hallstrom, Alfred, Ewart, Craig, Capone, Robert J., Schron, Eleanor, Kornfeld, Donald, Herd, J.Alan, Richardson, David W., Follick, Michael J., The CAPS Investigators

“…The frequency of ventricular premature complexes and the degree of impairment of left ventricular ejection fraction are major predictors of cardiac mortality…”
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Comparative Analysis of Pine Resin Productivity in Different Forest Site Types by Pastukhova, N.O., Gorkin, A.I., Lebedeva, O.P.

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Assessment of quality of life as observed from the baseline data of the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD) trial quality-of-life substudy by Gorkin, Larry, Norvell, Nancy K., Rosen, Raymond C., Charles, Ed, Shumaker, Sally A., McIntyre, Kevin M., Capone, Robert J., Kostis, John, Niaura, Raymond, Woods, Patricia, Hosking, James, Garces, Carlos, Handberg, Eileen, Ahern, David K., Follick, Michael J., The SOLVD Investigators

“…The improvement of aspects of a patient's quality of life may be as important as prolonging survival in evaluating clinical trials of heart failure. The…”
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Psychosocial predictors of mortality in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial-1 (CAST-1) by Gorkin, Larry, Schron, Eleanor B., Brooks, Maria Mori, Wiklund, Ingela, Kellen, Joy, Verter, Joel, Schoenberger, James A., Pawitan, Yudi, Morris, Mary, Shumaker, Sally, The CAST Investigators

“…Psychosocial variables predict the recurrence of clinical events in symptomatic patients, controlling for measures of disease severity. The Cardiac Arrhythmia…”
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Determinants of perceived health in patients with left ventricular dysfunction: a structural modeling analysis by Rosen, R C, Contrada, R J, Gorkin, L, Kostis, J B

“…Few studies have evaluated the determinants of perceived health in patients with chronic illness. The present study was designed to evaluate the role of…”
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Baseline quality of life as a predictor of mortality and hospitalization in 5,025 patients with congestive heart failure. SOLVD Investigations. Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction Investigators by Konstam, V, Salem, D, Pouleur, H, Kostis, J, Gorkin, L, Shumaker, S, Mottard, I, Woods, P, Konstam, M A, Yusuf, S

“…This study examined the independent relation of health-related quality of life (HRQL) to mortality and congestive heart failure (CHF)-related hospitalizations…”
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Discontinuation of and changes in treatment after start of new courses of antihypertensive drugs : a study of a United Kingdom population by JONES, J. K, GORKIN, L, LIAN, J. F, STAFFA, J. A, FLETCHER, A. P

“…A retrospective analysis was conducted to evaluate the incidence of discontinuation of and changes in treatment after newly prescribed courses of…”
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Psychological distress as a predictor of ventricular arrhythmias in a post-myocardial infarction population by Follick, M J, Gorkin, L, Capone, R J, Smith, T W, Ahern, D K, Stablein, D, Niaura, R, Visco, J

“…A prospective study examining the relationship between psychological distress and ventricular ectopy was conducted with 125 post-myocardial infarction patients…”
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Young adults at risk for hypertension: effects of family history and anger management in determining responses to interpersonal conflict by Holroyd, K A, Gorkin, L

“…An experiment was conducted with young adults to study the effects of two hypothesized risk factors for essential hypertension, namely, having (1) a positive…”
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