Arterial Stiffness—What Do We Know about It and What Do We Expect from This Biomarker?

Reiner, Željko

doi:10.3390/jcm11164843

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“…At the district level, there used to be elected Local Popular Councils (LPCs) to represent the residents (ARLEM, 2013), but these were dismantled following the 2011 revolution. As a result, the government-appointed district officials are the only stakeholder on the local level who decide and execute the yearly development plan of districts (Braneya & Fouda, 2019). In the absence of LPCs, the citizens depend on informality and personal connections to influence local governance.…”

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“…Since then, a new law has been under development that disrupts the holding of LPCs elections, leaving the citizens without elected representatives in the local government. Consequently, government-appointed district officials develop the districts' yearly development plans alone (Braneya & Fouda, 2019).…”

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Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

Elwageeh

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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This study investigates local activism in politically challenging contexts, focusing on Cairo. In such contexts, active resident groups strive for urban improvement, while governance arrangements often disregard citizen involvement in urban and public affairs. Cairo presents an exemplary case of local activism in a politically challenging and under-researched context. The study explores the characteristics, roles, and interrelations of active resident groups with local governance arrangements and their deviations from existing literature. It employs a qualitative methodology with observations and semi-structured interviews with local officials and active residents from nine different districts. The study uses Facebook to select, observe, and analyze the activities of multiple active resident groups and contributes to theoretical frameworks for analyzing local activism in complex contexts. It reveals the dominant and absent roles and the governance dimensions (un)attainable by active residents. It also traces the sources of limited local activism in the existing governance arrangements in Cairo, highlighting the importance and difficulty of changing governance arrangements in Egypt. The study broadens our understanding of local activism in the Global South beyond dominant forms of activism.

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Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

Elwageeh

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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“…Upon treating ischemic and dyslipidemic patients with alirocumab, at a 6-month follow-up, we observed a decline in their LDL cholesterol from 140.3 ± 64.9 mg/dL to 73.6 ± 15.5 mg/dL (p = 0.03), together with a reduction in their PWVs from 13.7 ± 2.4 m/s to 10.5 ± 1.43 m/s (p < 0.05) [8]. A linear correlation between the total cholesterol or LDL cholesterol and arterial stiffness has been correctly proved [9] and the reduction with the statins of LDL cholesterol usually reduced the PWV in the treated patients. The interesting question is if the arterial stiffness proved to be increased in familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), an in vivo model of life-long exposure to an elevated level of plasma cholesterolemia, which is the most important risk factor for accelerated and premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.…”

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