Publications by authors named "Anke Bruninx"

Background: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease poses a heavy burden on the population's health and health care costs. Identifying apparently healthy individuals at risk of developing cardiovascular diseases using clinical prediction models raises awareness, facilitates shared decision-making, and supports tailored management of disease prevention. In the CARRIER project, a personalized cardiovascular risk management (CVRM) eCoach approach is cocreated, in which identified individuals receive education, guidance, and monitoring to prevent atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through existing interventions.

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Background: To improve screening for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), we aimed to develop and temporally evaluate sex-specific models to predict 4-year ASCVD risk in South Limburg based on age and neighbourhood characteristics concerning home address.

Methods: We included 40- to 70-year-olds living in South Limburg on 1 January 2015 for model development, and 40- to 70-year-olds living in South Limburg on 1 January 2016 for model evaluation. We randomly sampled people selected in 1 year and in both years to create development and evaluation data sets.

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  • Loop diuretics are commonly used in heart failure patients for symptom relief, but there's little data on the safety of lowering doses which is mostly guided by expert opinion.
  • A study analyzing data from 622 heart failure patients found that within 30 days of down-titrating diuretics, about 30% of patients needed to increase their dose again, and hospitalization and death rates were significantly higher following a dose reduction compared to maintaining the same dose.
  • The findings suggest that reducing diuretic doses carries substantial risks and emphasizes the need for close monitoring of heart failure patients after any reduction in their diuretic therapy.
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Digital health is a promising tool to support people with an elevated risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and patients with an established disease to improve cardiovascular outcomes. Many digital health initiatives have been developed and employed. However, barriers to their large-scale implementation have remained.

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This study aimed to systematically review the use of clinical prediction models (CPMs) in personalised lifestyle interventions for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. We searched PubMed and PsycInfo for articles describing relevant studies published up to August 1, 2021. These were supplemented with items retrieved via screening references of citations and cited by references.

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Many researchers have tried to predict semantic priming effects using a myriad of variables (e.g., prime-target associative strength or co-occurrence frequency).

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