Is health-related quality of life after myocardial infarction associated with level of left ventricular ejection fraction?
LVEF measured during hospitalization for MI was a determinant for HRQoL 2.5 years later.
Smokers have impaired endothelium-dependent but normal endothelium-independent vasodilation as determined by brachial artery reactivity studies. Further, Terrminalia arjuna therapy for two weeks leads to significant regression of this endothelial abnormality amongst smokers.