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Executive Director of CBB, Catherine Burns, Systems Design Engineering

Executive Director of CBB, Catherine Burns, Systems Design Engineering

CBB Member Richard Hughson, Kinesiology

CBB Member Richard Hughson, Kinesiology

CBB Member Karim Karim, Electrical and Computer Engineering, in lab

CBB Member Karim Karim, Electrical and Computer Engineering, in lab

Executive Director of CBB, Catherine Burns, Systems Design Engineering
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Executive Director of CBB, Catherine Burns, Systems Design Engineering
CBB Member Richard Hughson, Kinesiology
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CBB Member Richard Hughson, Kinesiology
CBB Member Karim Karim, Electrical and Computer Engineering, in lab
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CBB Member Karim Karim, Electrical and Computer Engineering, in lab

Learn how CBB researchers are exploring Cardiovascular applications:

CBB Researchers

Stories
  • "Women are naturally more fit than men," Waterloo News, Richard Hughson, December 4, 2017
  • "Paving the way for a digital X-ray and health-care revolution," Office of Research, Karim Karim, June 9, 2016
  • "Waterloo science aboard the International Space Station," Waterloo Stories, Richard Hughson, April 19, 2016

  • "Tiny technology to prevent the risk of skipping a beat or worse," Waterloo Engineering, Patricia Nieva, April 2015

  • "Waterloo discovers a key regulator in the pacemakers of our brain and heart," Science News, David Spafford, April 25, 2014

  • "Cardio research probes puzzle of fainting astronauts," Kinesiology Research Stories, Richard Hughson, October 18, 2012

  • "A tiny machine to predict heart attacks," Waterloo Stories, Patricia Nieva, July 5, 2012

Press/Media

  • “Are women more naturally fit than men?” CTV News, Richard Hughson, January 2, 2016

  • "Bending the cost curve: Building a $1000 diagnostic X-ray imager for scalable and sustainable healthcare," YouTube Lecture, Karim Karim, September 30, 2014

Publications by CBB Researchers

  • Gibbons, TD, Zuj, KA, Peterson, SD, Hughson, RL. Comparison of pulse contour, aortic Doppler ultrasound and bioelectrical impedance estimates of stroke volume during rapid changes in blood pressure. Exp Physiol. 2019; 104: 368– 378. https://doi.org/10.1113/EP087240

  • "Recent advances in sex differences in kidney function", Layton A, Sullivan J, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, 2019 vol: 316 (2) pp: F328-F331, www.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/ajprenal.00584.2018

  • J. Leete and A. T. Layton, "Sex-specific long-term blood pressure regulation: Modeling and analysis," Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 104, pp. 139-148, 2019. Available: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010482518303408.

  • Hughson RL, Robertson AD, Arbeille P, Shoemaker JK, Rush JWE, Fraser KS, Greaves DK. (2016). Increased post-flight carotid artery stiffness and inflight insulin resistance resulting from six-months spaceflight in male and female astronauts. American Journal of Physiology: Heart and CirculatoryPhysiology. 310: H628-H638. doi/10.1152/ajpheart.00802.2015

    Fraser KS, Heckman GA, McKelvie RS, Harkness K, Middleton LA, Hughson RL.(2015). Cerebral hypoperfusion is exaggerated with an upright posture in heart failure. JACC Heart Failure. 3: 168-175. doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2014.07.017

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