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Severity of mobility limitation and adverse outcomes in heart failure
Background Mobility limitation is prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF), but the dose-response relationship between ...
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Prognostic implications of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in moderate aortic stenosis
5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore 6 Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, Singapore Objective To investigate the prognostic ...
BMJ9d
When absence of evidence equates to evidence of absence: the case of routine use of cerebral embolic protection devices in transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Objectives This updated hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis aims to integrate the latest randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the use of cerebral embolic protection (CEP) in transcatheter aortic ...
BMJ9d
Reshaping the paradigm: towards holistic cardiovascular risk assessment in older adults
In his song ‘Envelhecer’ (‘Aging’), Arnaldo Antunes states that “the most modern thing there is in this life is to grow old”.1 In this piece, he reframes aging not only as an inevitable biological ...
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Observational data during the COVID-19 pandemic: opportunity with uncertainty
Correspondence to Dr Klaus K Witte, Division of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research, University of Leeds, Leeds LS16 5AR, UK; k.k.witte{at}leeds.ac.uk ...
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Echocardiographic estimation of pulmonary pressure in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation
Correspondence to Dr Guillaume Leurent, Cardiology, Pontchaillou Hospital Cardiology and Vascular Diseases Department, Rennes 35000, France; Guillaume.LEURENT{at}chu-rennes.fr; Dr Léo Lemarchand; ...
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Can PCI match CABG for multivessel disease? Here is how
Revascularisation of multivessel coronary artery disease (MVD) can be accomplished by either percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. An ...
BMJ17d
Contemporary diagnosis and management of spontaneous coronary artery dissection
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) has emerged over the last decade as an increasingly recognised cause of myocardial infarction, especially among younger women. The advances in our ...
BMJ17d
Relationship between left ventricular shape and cardiovascular risk factors: comparison between the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and UK Biobank
Background Statistical shape atlases have been used in large-cohort studies to investigate relationships between heart shape and risk factors. The generalisability of these relationships between ...
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Strategies to enhance recruitment of female participants to cardiovascular research: a joint British Cardiovascular Societies’ consensus document in collaboration with the ...
Despite significant progress in cardiovascular pharmacotherapy and interventional strategies, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among females in the UK ...
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Persistent psychological distress and mortality in patients with stable coronary artery disease
Background A single assessment of psychological distress, which includes depression and anxiety, has been associated with increased mortality in patients with coronary heart disease, but the ...