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Renata Cifkova

Researcher at First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague

Publications -  319
Citations -  91912

Renata Cifkova is an academic researcher from First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Blood pressure. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 305 publications receiving 80868 citations. Previous affiliations of Renata Cifkova include Masaryk University & Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

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High leptin status indicates an increased risk of mortality and heart failure in stable coronary artery disease.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored whether high leptin affects the mortality and morbidity risk in patients with stable coronary heart disease and found that high serum leptin concentrations (≥18.9 ng/mL) were associated with worse survival, as well as with a higher incidence of fatal vascular events or hospitalization for heart failure.
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The Czech ABI Project - prevalence of peripheral arterial disease in patients at risk using the ankle-brachial index in general practice (a cross-sectional study).

TL;DR: Smoking can alter ApoA1-mediated reverse cholesterol transport in women, as measured by cholesterol efflux (CHE), in middle-aged women.

Original research article - Special issue: Cardiovascular Prevention Availability and use of home blood pressure measurement in the Czech general population

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the use of home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) in hypertensive subjects examined during a crosssectional general population survey (Czech post-MONICA).
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Epidemiological Aspects (Prevalence and Risk of Heart Failure Related to Blood Pressure)

TL;DR: Treatment of hypertension, particularly in individuals aged over 60 years, is associated with the largest reduction of HF compared to other cardiovascular events, and substantially prolongs HF-free survival and life expectancy.