Clinical practice guidelines form the foundation of evidence-based care in cardiology, yet gaps persist between the care ...

Background The Heart Failure Association Pre-test Assessment, Echocardiography and Natriuretic Peptide, Functional testing, ...

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Mostofsky, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Kresge Building, Room 505-B, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) allows for the study of the pathophysiology of exercise intolerance through assessment of exercise integrative physiology of the pulmonary, cardiovascular, ...

3 Department of Biostatistics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Nina Ajmone Marsan, Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, ...

Objectives Despite many shared risk factors and pathophysiological pathways, the risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and myocardial infarction (MI) in interstitial lung disease (ILD) remains poorly ...

Vagally mediated atrioventricular (AV) block is defined as a paroxysmal AV block, localised within the AV node, associated with slowing of the sinus rate. All types of second-degree AV block, ...

Correspondence to Dr Christian Hakulinen, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; christian.hakulinen{at}helsinki.fi Objective To ...

Objective The aim of the meta-analysis was to determine the association of obesity and heart failure (HF) and the cardiac impact of intentional weight loss following bariatric surgery on cardiac ...

The rationale, need and opportunity of multiple screening. Although the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has decreased in recent decades, CVD remains a major healthcare challenge. In Europe ...

Background One-year mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has declined over time, yet the reasons for this improvement remain unclear. Understanding the drivers of these changes is ...