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Prognostic importance of exercise electrocardiography in patients with suspected microvascular disease

Background Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) is associated with a poor prognosis but is difficult to diagnose non-invasively. In a recent paper, ST-segment depression on exercise-ECG was found ...
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Drug-associated Takotsubo syndrome risk profiling: a global pharmacovigilance study

Background Drug exposure has been reported in association with Takotsubo syndrome, but the breadth and relative strength of ...
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Heart rate in early rhythm control therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation

Background Preventing high heart rates in atrial fibrillation (AF) is recommended to reduce AF-related symptoms and morbidity. Evidence on a strong relationship between lower heart rate during AF and ...
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Joint British Societies’ consensus recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (JBS3)

British Cardiovascular Society, Association of British Clinical Diabetologists, British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation, British Association for Nursing in Cardiovascular ...
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Takotsubo syndrome: aetiology, presentation and treatment

Correspondence to Prof Christian Templin, Director Acute Cardiology, Andreas Grüntzig Heart Catheterization Laboratories, University Hospital Zurich, University Heart Center, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 ...
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Significantly increased risk of all-cause mortality among cardiac patients feeling lonely

Objective To explore whether living alone and loneliness 1) are associated with poor patient-reported outcomes at hospital discharge and 2) predict cardiac events and mortality 1 year after hospital ...
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Risk of drug-induced liver injury with the new oral anticoagulants: systematic review and meta-analysis

2 Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal 3 Cardiology Department, CCUL, CAML, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal 4 ...
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Increased coronary heart disease and stroke hospitalisations from ambient temperatures in Ontario

Objective To assess the associations between ambient temperatures and hospitalisations for coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. The relationship of temperatures with cardiovascular-related ...
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Clinical anatomy of the aortic root

Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK Professor Robert Anderson, Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N ...
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Cardiovascular disease and mortality sequelae of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank

Objective To examine association of COVID-19 with incident cardiovascular events in 17 871 UK Biobank cases between March 2020 and 2021. Methods COVID-19 cases were defined using health record linkage ...
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Risk prediction models: II. External validation, model updating, and impact assessment

3 NCRP for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, South African Medical Research Council and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Clinical prediction models are increasingly used to ...
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Effectiveness of the LUCAS device for mechanical chest compression after cardiac arrest: systematic review of experimental, observational and animal studies

Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Simon Gates, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Division of ...