Tri-Service General Hospital Songshan Branch, Taipei (Taiwan)
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Cheng-Wei Liu is an interventional cardiologist and specializes in coronary artery disease and lower extremity arterial disease. In the field of general cardiology, He specializes in metabolic syndrome, hypertension, diabetes mellitus with atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, general and epidemiological cardiology, heart failure, and transthoracic echocardiography; he also involves the cardiac field of military medicine and mainly focuses on the risk assessment of electrocardiography, echocardiography and military training. His studies discussed (1) the relationship between uric acid and cardiovascular diseases (2) Predictors of prognoses in patients with lower extremity arterial diseases (3) Nutrition supplement in the fields of cardiovascular diseases by systematic-review and meta-analyses. He also reviewed international journals indexed by SCI. (https://publons.com/researcher/3810879/cheng-wei-liu/)
Elevated serum uric acid associated with both electrocardiographic and echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy independent of blood pressure in healthy individuals