Day 1 :
Keynote Forum
Haniye Ghasemof Juyomi
Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences,Shiraz ,Iran
Keynote: The Effects of Combine Oral Contraceptive Pills on Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Systematic Review on Clinical Trials
Biography:
Ghasemof Juyomi is a midwife, graduated from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; that participated in international conferences related to women health and cardiometabolic risk fatcors. She is interested in the fields of Neonatal and Maternal complication, and disorders and side effects of medications that taken before, during and after pregnancy.
Abstract:
Background
The combine contraceptive pills (COCPs), included a combination of esterogen and progesterone, are an accepted therapeutic for pregnancy prevention. Several studies indicated that COCP intake might have some side effects, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Therefore this study aimed to investigate the effects of COCP on CVD risk factors.
Methods
Google Scholar, PubMed and Magiran Library databases were systematically searched to find relevant clinical trials investigating the effects of COCPs on CVD from inception up to June 2020.
Results
Included articles (n = 10) assessed several risk factors such as blood pressure, serum levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL). A total of the articles indicated the increament of blood pressure, serum levels of cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL and reduction in HDL following COCPs intake.
Conclusions
The results of studies showed that COCP intake for long time is related to the increase of the CVD risk factors and most probably they have an adverse effects on cardiovascular disease
- Cardiac Regeneration
Location: Montreal, Canada
Session Introduction
Katie Stack
Warwick Medical School, UK
Title: Lower Awareness of the Warning Signs and Lower Knowledge of Risk Factors of Stroke in Europe are Associated with Lower Socioeconomic Position
Biography:
Katie Stack is in her penultimate year at Warwick Medical School. Wendy Robertson is an Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School.
Abstract:
Objectives: This systematic review aims to discover whether there are differences in the knowledge of stroke risk factors and awareness of stroke warning signs with regards to socioeconomic position (SEP) in Europe. Methods: Online databases were searched for articles looking at knowledge of stroke risk factors and/or awareness of warning signs, with results broken down by SEP. A title and abstract screen, and, if appropriate, a full text screen, of these results was carried out, as well screening reference lists of included studies. Results: The database search identified 2,090 records for screening. A further 28 papers from reference lists of the final included studies were also screened. Twenty articles were included in the final review. Eleven out of seventeen studies looking at stroke risk factors found increasing knowledge to be associated with higher SEP, four studies found there to be no difference by SEP and one study found increasing knowledge of risk factors to be associated with a lower SEP. With regards to stroke warning signs, fifteen out of nineteen studies found there to be a better awareness of warning signs with a higher SEP, three found there to be no difference, and one study found there was a higher knowledge of warning signs by lower SEP. Conclusion: Overall, in Europe a better knowledge of stroke risk factors and awareness of warning signs is associated with a higher socioeconomic position. Public health campaigns and educational programmes aiming to increase stroke awareness should be targeted at people with a lower SEP.
- Hypertension
Location: Montreal, Canada
Session Introduction
Mohammad Jalali
Nutrition Research Center, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Title: Cinnamon supplementation improved Blood pressure in type 2 diabetic patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Biography:
Jalali is an Iranian nutritionist, which receive honorary doctorate as health education at the age of 20 years old and also has a traditional medicine certificate from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences with score 100. He is a member of Nutrition Research Center of Shiraz, Iran. He is specifically working on functional foods and nutraceuticals that can improve various metabolic disorders, and has obtained significant outcomes regarding important biomarkers. He also eminence in the field of meta-analysis studies
Abstract:
Hypertension is known as an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and metabolic syndrome. Also some studies suggested a consumption of herbal medicine for improving them. The present systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the efficacy of cinnamon supplementation on the improvement of blood pressure in type 2 diabetic patients. Systematic search was done in several online databases (PubMed, Embase, Scopus and Web of Sciences) to identify randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of cinnamon supplementation on systolic blood pressure (SBP) or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) for all potential publication up to 29 November 2019. Weighted mean difference (WMD) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculate to find the effect of cinnamon on the arms of this study. Potential publication bias was assessed using funnel plots and Egger weighted regression test. After excluding nonrelated records, 5 full-text articles included in this meta-analysis. Pooled results of the present meta-analysis on 332 participants indicated a significant reduction in SBP (WMD = -0.691, 95% CI = [-1.199, -0.182], P = 0.008) and DBP (WMD = -1.193, 95% CI = [-1.457, -0.930], P < 0.0001) following cinnamon administration. Also, no publication bias was found. The results of the present study suggested cinnamon for improving the blooad pressure in type 2 diabetic patients
- Current Research in Cardiology
Location: Montreal, Canada
Session Introduction
Soroush Oskouei
University of Eastern Finland, Department of Applied Physics, Kuopio 70210, Finland
Title: Improving a CHD Prediction Model, Reducing Necessary Predictive Factors, and Statistical Analysis of the Data
Biography:
Soroush Oskouei completed his bachelor's degree in atomic and molecular physics in 2017, continued his study in applied radiation at the Shahid Beheshti University, and was engaged as a research assistance from 2018 to 2020 at the same academic unit. He is currently studying medical physics at The University of Eastern Finland and has contributed in various projects and has one publication
Abstract:
Coronary heart disease (CHD) occurs when the arteries of the heart cannot deliver enough oxygen-rich blood to the heart. In 2020, it was reported to be the cause of the majority of deaths in the United States. In this work, the most important risk factors for CHD are rearranged based on the classification model that can predict the ten year CHD risk with a very good acuracy. The data was taken from the cardiovascular study of Framingham available on Kaggle website. Considering the data used, there needed to be a multivariate analysis along with classified comparison and regressions to investigate possible correlations between features. Multivariate T-test and classifications could point out (and rule out) correlations and true effect of features on eachother and on the final prediction (ten year CHD risk). Factor Analysis and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were also conducted to better reveal the importance of features. In order to make the prediction, three classification models were conducted along with a voting classifier. Different weighting factors were used for the voting classification and the one that resulted in the best accuracy was used. The three classification models were logistic regression, Gaussian naive Bayes, and random forest classification. The previous prediction model was improved by more than 5 percent in accuracy and the most important predictive factors were pointed out. The PCA on the data revealed that the most important factors are: total cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, heart rate, glucose, and combination of cigarettes per day and heart rate.