Background Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a common cause of cardiovascular mortality, often triggered by ventricular ...

Aim In the UK, pharmacological management of patients with heart failure (HF) occurs predominantly in general practice. Using ...

Background Postoperative cerebral infarction following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for multivessel coronary artery ...

Background The aim of the study was to estimate the sex-specific prevalence and incidence of atrial fibrillation or flutter ...

Background Cardiac MR (CMR) provides a comprehensive assessment of pericardial structure, tissue characteristics and constriction-related haemodynamics, making it an excellent tool for assessing the ...

Background Valve disease is using up an important, growing proportion of the resources allocated for healthcare. Clinical care is often suboptimal and while multidisciplinary clinics are the ‘gold ...

Aims To describe the use of warfarin and direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD), to evaluate changes in renal function over time ...

Background The main aim was to examine age-specific risk factor associations with incident atrial fibrillation (AF) and their attributable fraction in a large European cohort. Additionally, we aimed ...

Importance The healthcare sector is essential to human health and well-being, yet its significant carbon footprint contributes to climate change-related threats to health. Objective To review ...

Objective Aspirin and non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are preventive against cardiovascular disease (CVD) and several cancer types, but long-term use has been associated ...

Background Mechanical stress on the heart is commonly considered the sole stimulus explaining the synthesis and release of circulating natriuretic peptides and their derivatives. While one of the most ...