Press Releases
1. Heart Failure Patients in Asia (Article in Mandarin, 16 Oct 2018)
2. ESC: Evidence grows for HFpEF as microvascular disease (Medpage, August 2018)
3. Industry and academia must work together (Asia-Pacific Biotech News, May 2018)
4. Heart Failure in Women: Taking Control (Roche’s Dia:gram, April 2018)
5. Found: Molecule that stops heart from healing (The Straits Times, 22 Aug 2017)
6. ICD: Utilisation rate in Asia (Murmurs, NHCS, Apr-Sep2017)
7. Heart failure is different in Women (Singapore Health, Nov-Dec 2017)
8. New way to detect heart failure that's hard to diagnose (The Straits Times, 21 July 2017)
9. Multinational heart failure study shows high prevalence of coronary artery disease, hypertension and diabetes in Asian patients (Media Release, 16 June 2016)
10. 11 local institutes team up for study on heart failure (The Straits Times, 13 July 2015)
11. Bayer, EDB to fund S$30m regional disease research (The Business Times, 9 July 2015)
12. AstraZeneca to collaborate with key Singapore research organisations in heart failure (11 Mar 2015)
13. Doctors hail LCZ696, a new drug for heart failure (The Straits Times, 4 September 2014)
Publications
2019
1. Empagliflozin lowers myocardial ketone utilization while preserving glucose utilization in diabetic hypertensive heart disease: A hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. 2019 Feb;21(2):357-365
2. A new hyperpolarized 13C ketone body probe reveals an increase in acetoacetate utilization in the diabetic rat heart
Scientific Reports. 2019 Apr 2;9(1):5532
Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 2018 Jan 1; 26(1):131-138
18. Monoclonal Antibodies against Specific p53 Hotspot Mutants as Potential Tools for Precision Medicine
Cell Reports 2 Jan 2018; 22: 299–312
19. ICare-ACS (Improving Care Processes for Patients With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome): A Study of Cross-System Implementation of a National Clinical Pathway
Circulation. 2018 Jan 23;137(4):354-363
20. N-terminal B-type Natriuretic Peptide in Heart Failure
Heart Failure Clinics. 2018 Jan;14(1):27-39
21. Single-dose Intravenous Iron in Southeast Asian Heart Failure Patients: A pilot randomized placebo-controlled study (PRACTICE-ASIA-HF)
ESC Heart Failure; 18 Jan 2018; Vol 5 (2): 344–353
Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Dec;19(12):1638-1647
10. Metabolic and Blood Pressure Effects of Walnut Supplementation in a Mouse Model of the Metabolic Syndrome
Nutrients 2017 Jul 7;9(7)
11. Characterization and Standardization of Cultured Cardiac Fibroblasts for Ex Vivo Models of Heart Fibrosis and Heart Ischemia
Tissue Eng Part C Methods. 2017 Jul;23(7):422-433
12. Mortality and acute exacerbated COPD: a pilot study on the influence of myocardial injury
Eur Respir J. 2017 Jun 29;49(6)
13. Ankyrin repeat domain 1 protein: A functionally pleiotropic protein with cardiac biomarker potential
Int J Mol Sci; 2017 Jun 26;18(7)
14. Thymosin beta-4 is elevated in women with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Jun 13;6(6)
15. Risk Stratification Model for 30-day Heart Failure Readmission in a Multi-ethnic South East Asian Community
Am J Cardiol. 2017 May 1;119(9):1428-1432
16. Risk stratification of Asian patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction:The effectiveness of the 'Echo Heart Failure Score'
Eur J Heart Failure 2017 May; Vol 19; 12:1732-1735
17. Right ventricular dysfunction in left-sided heart failure with preserved versus reduced ejection fraction
Eur J Heart Failure 2017 Apr; Vol 19; 12-1664-1671
18. A decade of improvement in the management of New Zealand ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients: results from the New Zealand acute coronary syndrome (NZACS) audit group national audits of 2002, 2007 and 2012
New Zealand Med J (in press); 7 Apr 2017, Vol 130, No. 1453
23. Superior performance of NT-proBNP for diagnosis of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in an Asian compared with a Western setting
Eur J Heart Fail 2017 Feb; 19 (2), 209-217
24. Liposome encapsulated berberine treatment attenuates cardiac dysfunction after myocardial infarction
J Control Release. 2017 Feb 10; 247:127-133
25. Up-regulation of miRNA-221 inhibits hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced autophagy through the DDIT4/mTORC1 and Tp53inp1/p62 pathways
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2016 May 20; 474(1):168-74
26. Overview of MicroRNAs in Cardiac Hypertrophy, Fibrosis, and Apoptosis
Int J Mol Sci. 2016 May 18;17(5)
27. Discovery of Potential Therapeutic miRNA Targets in Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2016 May;21(3):296-309
28. Cardiac MRI based numerical modeling of left ventricular fluid dynamics with mitral valve incorporated
J Biomech. 2016 May 3;49(7):1199-205
29. Longitudinal Community-Based Study of QT Interval and Mortality in Southeast Asians
PLoS One. 2016 May 5;11(5)
30. MicroRNA and Heart Failure
Int J Mol Sci. 2016 Apr 6; 17(4):502
31. The ethnicity-specific association of biomarkers with the angiographic severity of coronary artery disease
Neth Heart J. 2016 Mar; 24(3):188-98
32. Racial Differences in Electrocardiographic Characteristics and Prognostic Significance in Whites Versus Asians
J Am Heart Assoc. 2016 Mar 25;5(3)
33. Incidentalome from Genomic Sequencing: A barrier to personalized medicine?
EBioMedicine. 2016 Feb 4; 5:211-216
34. Microvascular endothelial dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Heart. 2016 Feb 15; 102(4):257-9
35. Connecting Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Renal Dysfunction – The Role of Endothelial Dysfunction and Inflammation
European Journal of Heart Failure 2016 Feb 10; 18(6):588-98
36. Extracellular Vesicle Proteins Associated with Systemic Vascular Events Correlate with Heart Failure: An Observational Study in a Dyspnoea Cohort
PLOS ONE, 2016 Jan 28
37. Breakthrough in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: are we there yet?
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine 2016 Jan; 31(1):1-14
2015 and beyond
1. Automated quantitative assessment of cardiovascular magnetic resonance-derived atrioventricular junction velocities
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2015 Dec 1; 309(11):H1923-35
2. Minding the Gap in Heart Failure: Understanding the Pulse Pressure in Reduced Versus Preserved Ejection Fraction
JACC: Heart Failure Epub 2015 Dec 2
3. Variational Reconstruction of Left Cardiac Structure from CMR Images
PLoS One. Dec 2015;10(12):e0145570
4. Rationale and Design of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Role of Intravenous Ferric Carboxymaltose in Asian Patients with Heart Failure (PRACTICE-ASIA-HF)
ESC Heart Failure Epub 2015 Dec 16
5. Vascular Health Indices and Cognitive Domain Function: Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2015 Nov 26; 50(1):27-40
6. The diagnostic and prognostic potential of plasma extracellular vesicles for cardiovascular disease
Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostic, 2015 Nov 04; 15(12):1577-1588
7. Hematological Parameters Improve Prediction of Mortality and Secondary Adverse Events in Coronary Angiography Patients: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Medicine (Baltimore); 2015 Nov; 94(45)
8. Growth Differentiation Factor 15 in Heart Failure with Preserved versus Reduced Ejection Fraction
Eur J Heart Fail Epub 2015 Oct 25
9. FHL2 switches MITF from activator to repressor of Erbin expression during cardiac hypertrophy
Int J Cardiol 2015 Sep 15; 195:85-94
10. Women Undergoing Coronary Angiography for Myocardial Infarction or Who Present With Multivessel Disease Have a Poorer Prognosis Than Men
Angiology 2015 Sep 7
11. Electrocardiographic Criteria for Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Asians Differs From Criteria Derived From Western Populations—Community-based Data from an Asian Population.
Ann Acad Med Singapore 2015 Aug; 44(8):274-283
12. Cardiac Endothelium-Myocyte Interaction: Clinical Opportunities for New Heart Failure Therapies Regardless of Ejection Fraction
Eur Heart J 2015 Aug 14; 36(31):2050-2060
13. Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: An Expression Of Stage B Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research Jul 2015, Vol. 12(4):234–238
14. The Relationship among Carotid Artery Remodeling, Cardiac Geometry, and Serum N-terminal Pro-B-type Natriuretic Peptide Level in Asymptomatic Asians: Sex-differences and Longitudinal GEE study.
PLOS ONE 2015 Jul 1; 10(7)
15. Inter-Ethnic Differences in Quantified Coronary Artery Disease Severity and All-Cause Mortality among Dutch and Singaporean Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Patients
PLOS ONE 2015 Jul 6; 10(7)
16. Heart Failure In Southeast Asia: Facts And Figures (Invited Editorial)
ESC-Heart Failure June 2015, Issue 2, Volume 2:46-49
17. Experimental heart failure modelled by the cardiomyocyte-specific loss of an epigenome modifier, DNMT3B
J Mol Cell Cardiol 2015 May; 82:174-83
18. Natriuretic peptide receptor 3 (NPR3) is regulated by microRNA-100
J Mol Cell Cardiol 2015 May; 82:13-21
19. Circulating microRNAs in heart failure with reduced and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction
Eur J Heart Fail. 2015 Apr;17(4):393-404
20. Patient Selection in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Clinical Trials
J Am Coll Cardiol 2015, 65(16):1668–1682
21. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in women: the Dutch Queen of Hearts program
Neth Heart J. 2015 Feb; 23(2):89-93
22. Iron deficiency in a multi-ethnic Asian population with and without heart failure: prevalence, clinical correlates, functional significance and prognosis
Eur J Heart Fail. 2014 Oct; 16(10):1125-32
23. Asian Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure (ASIAN-HF) registry
Eur J Heart Fail., Aug 2013, 15(8):928–936
24. The Singapore Heart Failure Outcomes and Phenotypes (SHOP) Study and Prospective Evaluation of Outcome in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (PEOPLE) Study: Rationale and Design
J Card Fail. 2013 Mar;19(3):156-62
25. Growth differentiation factor 15, ST2, high-sensitivity troponin T, and N- terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide in heart failure with preserved vs. reduced ejection fraction
Eur J Heart Fail. 2012 Dec; 14(12):1338-47
Posters
1. Left atrial strain by cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking is a novel diagnostic biomarker of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
ESC 2017
2. Myocardial T1 and extracellular measurement in heart failure with preserved ejection: Reproducibility at 3T and comparison with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
EuroCMR 2017
3. Role of Chronic Inflammation in Driving Progression of Heart Failure
CYTO Asia 2017
4. SG10K: Insights into the genetic architecture of Singaporeans
ASHG 2017
5. Dynamic Metabolomic Profiling Reveals Evidence for Metabolic Inflexibility in the Failing Heart
American Heart Association 2017
8. Novel method for atrioventricular motion assessment from three-dimensional cine magnetic resonance imaging