Background The minimally important difference (MID) for frailty variation associated with adverse outcomes remains unknown in ...

Background Pocket haematoma is a common complication of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) procedures and may lead ...

Background We aimed to estimate mental disorder disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence and determine whether ...

Background Since the 1960s, beta blockers have been used to treat hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), a genetic ...

Background Many observational studies highlight clonal haematopoiesis (CH) as a novel determinant of cardiovascular disease ...

Objective To test the effectiveness of an impedance cardiography (ICG) guided treatment strategy on improving blood pressure (BP) control in real-world clinical practice. Design A single-centre, ...

Introduction Routine measurement of the outcome of myocardial infarction is usually limited to immediate morbidity and mortality. Our aim was to determine the response to patient-reported outcome ...

Background Pre-procedural and post-procedural plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels can predict rhythm outcomes after catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the significance ...

For some time the alcohol-heart relationship has been a controversial topic in heart disease epidemiology.1–3 The relationship between average alcohol consumption and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is ...

Background Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has emerged as an alternative treatment for aortic regurgitation (AR) in patients at high surgical risk. However, evidence comparing outcomes ...

Objective We examined the extent and nature of the psychological difficulty experienced by athletic adults with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), correlates of that difficulty and coping mechanisms.

Background Bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) were designed to reduce the rate of late adverse events observed in conventional drug-eluting stents (DES) by dissolving once they have restored ...