Chiduzie Madubata

Ruizhe Zhang1 Qingya Xie2 Pingxi Xiao2* 1Department of Cardiology, Sir Run Run, Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China 2Department of Cardiology, The Forth Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China Aims: This meta-analysis aimed to assess the association of the polymorphisms of cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) rs708272 (G>A), rs5882 (G>A), rs1800775 (C>A), rs4783961 (G>A), rs247616 (C>T), rs5883 (C>T), rs1800776 (C>A), and rs1532624 (C>A) with...

Introduction Stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) is generally characterized by episodes of reversible myocardial demand/supply mismatch related to ischemia or hypoxia. SCAD is usually inducible by exercise, emotion, or other stress and is reproducible, but it may also occur spontaneously. At present, SCAD has a high incidence and degree of risk.

On December 31, 2019, the world changed as we knew it, but the future implications for the United States were not apparent at the time. On that day, the World Health Organization (WHO) China Country Office was informed of new cases of “pneumonia of unknown etiology” originating from Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. The cause of pneumonia was eventually identified as COVID-19, a new type of coronavirus that had not previously been diagnosed in humans.