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Timing of heart failure diagnosis and uptake of newly recommended therapies following clinical guideline updates

Background Clinical guideline updates aim to ensure that patients benefit from emerging evidence, yet it is unclear whether ...
Heart

Plasma heart-type fatty acid-binding protein, omega-3 fatty acids and adverse cardiac events in the general population

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

Long-term cortisol exposure and echocardiographic measures of cardiac structure and function

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

Carbon footprint of cardiovascular technologies: a new dimension of value

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

Waiting times and prioritisation for coronary artery bypass surgery in New Zealand

Professor H White, Cardiology Department, Green Lane Hospital, Private Bag 92 189, Auckland 1030, New Zealand. email:harveyw{at}ahsl.co.nz OBJECTIVES To review the New Zealand coronary artery bypass ...
BMJ

Clarifying the anatomy of the superior sinus venosus defect

Objectives We sought to clarify the variations in the anatomy of the superior cavoatrial junction and anomalously connected pulmonary veins in patients with superior sinus venosus defects using ...
BMJ

Habitual tub bathing and risks of incident coronary heart disease and stroke

Objective Tub bathing is considered to have a preventive effect against cardiovascular disease (CVD) by improving haemodynamic function. However, no prospective studies have investigated the long-term ...
BMJ

On-line detection of cholesterol and calcification by catheter based Raman spectroscopy in human atherosclerotic plaque ex vivo

Background: Raman spectroscopy has the unique potential to detect and quantify cholesterol and calcification in an atherosclerotic plaque in vivo. Objective: To evaluate the sensitivity and ...
BMJ

Sleep breathing disorders and cardioneurological complications: from pathophysiology to endotype-driven precision management

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 ...
BMJ

Two dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography: clinical applications

1 AKH Linz, Department of Internal Medicine I – Cardiology, Linz, Austria 2 Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Internal Medicine II, AKH, Vienna, Austria Correspondence to ...
BMJ

Acute coronary occlusion in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome: outcome and early identification by strain echocardiography

1 Department of Medicine, Sørlandet Hospital, Arendal and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 2 Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ...
BMJ

The bicuspid aortic valve: an integrated phenotypic classification of leaflet morphology and aortic root shape

Objective: To establish a classification of bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) that includes both leaflet morphology and aortic shape. Setting: Two academic medical centres of the University of Washington, ...