The study of the physiology and pathology of the cardiovascular system
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What percentage of human capillaries are located in the skin?
As in the subject line, what percentage of capillaries in a human (expressed in terms of total length, I suppose) are located in the skin, as opposed to internal organs? Google scholar has not turned ...
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If a receptor is inhibited throughout embryogenesis, could there be observable phenotypic differences in the adult?
So I read a journal article entitled "Maternal hypoxia and caffeine exposure depress fetal CV function during primary organogenesis" (Momoi, et al., 2012) and in essence the article speaks of the ...
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Can we make any judgements about sleep or readiness to sleep from a heart rate metric and/or pulse oxymetry?
I'm looking at inexpensive and un-intrusive ways to quantify the state of human body/mind . One of these is Actigraphy, which is a study of human motion over time. This can be done with an iPhone ...
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What's seen when stress echocardiography shows ischaemia? Can this happen without angina?
What can be seen on the screen when stress echocardiography suggests ischaemia? Can this happen without chest pain?
