Background Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is characterised by systemic congestion and elevated left ...
Background Comorbidities add complexity to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but also open opportunities to use therapies with benefits beyond the cardiovascular (CV) system, particularly ...
Sleep breathing disorders (SBDs)—including obstructive sleep apnoea, central sleep apnoea and sleep-related hypoventilation syndromes—represent a major yet under-recognised contributor to global ...
Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents one of the most significant risk factors for adverse cardiovascular events and mortality. Data on real-world clinical practice of Chinese patients ...
The prevalence of severe aortic stenosis (AS) is increasing globally, mainly due to ageing of populations and concomitant with this rise, deaths related to severe AS are also increasing.1 2 The ...
Cardiovascular involvement in Marfan syndrome (MFS) was long considered to be limited to the thoracic aorta. For decades, the attention of clinicians and researchers has focused primarily on aortic ...
Correspondence to Dr Jean Joel Bigna, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon; bignarimjj{at}yahoo.fr Objective We conducted the first systematic ...
Objective Previous studies have suggested that niacin treatment raises glucose levels in patients with diabetes and may increase the risk of developing diabetes. We undertook a meta-analysis of ...
Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to improve shared decision making (SDM) in cardiology with particular focus on patient-centred outcomes such as decisional conflict. Methods ...
1 Department of Cardiology, The Middlesex Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust 3 ...
Background There is substantial interest in the cardiovascular effects of e-cigarette use, highlighting the need to update our knowledge on the subject. We conducted this review to analyse whether ...
Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) can occur in isolation, or in combination with other structural cardiac anomalies, most commonly ventricular septal defect, pulmonary ...