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Philip A. Poole-Wilson

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  443
Citations -  69648

Philip A. Poole-Wilson is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heart failure & Heart disease. The author has an hindex of 105, co-authored 443 publications receiving 66861 citations. Previous affiliations of Philip A. Poole-Wilson include Harefield Hospital & St George's Hospital.

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Modeling payback from research into the efficacy of left-ventricular assist devices as destination therapy.

TL;DR: The survival benefit that LVADs would need to generate before they could be deemed cost-effective is examined to provide insight into the likelihood that this benefit will be achieved and the value of discovering the actual size of this benefit by means of a Bayesian value of information analysis.
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Lower patients' cholesterol now.

TL;DR: The first principle of the lipid hypothesis is that raised plasma cholesterol concentrations are associated with a high incidence of atherosclerosis and an increased risk of coronary heart disease, and the second principle—that both this risk and total mortality can be reduced by lowering cholesterol concentrations—remains controversial.
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Impaired baroreflex sensitivity and sympathovagal balance in syndrome X.

TL;DR: Patients with syndrome X have an altered autonomic control of the cardiovascular system characterized by impaired baroreceptor sensitivity and reduced heart rate variability, which may be of pathophysiologic importance in syndrome X.