Background Heart-type fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP), a principal intracellular transporter of long-chain fatty acids ...

Background Chronic activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis due to long-term stress, reflected by elevated hair ...

Carbon emissions and environmental pollutants are responsible for deaths, property damage and reduction in population health ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cardiovascular medicine, evolving from task-specific supervised models towards ...

1 Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine/Leeds Institute of Data Analytics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Aim To define trajectories of perceived health-related quality of life ...

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 ...

Objective Assessment of generalisability of guideline-informing trials on antithrombotic treatment intensification to real-world patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods Inclusion and ...

Faculty of Health Sciences, Tygerberg Hospital and University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa Professor B M Mayosi, Department of Medicine, J Floor Old Main Building, Groote Schuur Hospital, ...

Introduction Hyperlipidaemia is a well -established cardiovascular risk factor but the effect of hyperlipidaemia and treatment with cholesterol-lowering drugs on cancer remain equivocal. We aimed to ...

Correspondence to Dr Sakineh Shab-Bidar, Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14155/6117, Iran; s_shabbidar{at ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the value of Simpson’s rule, Teichholz’s formula, and recording of mitral ring motion in assessing left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) in patients with left ventricular ...

Coarctation of the aorta (CoA ) is a well-known congenital heart disease (CHD) , which is often associated with several other cardiac and vascular anomalies, such as bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), ...