When confronted with a tachycardia having a broad QRS complex, it is important to be able to differentiate between a supraventricular and a ventricular tachycardia. Medication given for the treatment ...

Background and objective Prior studies have suggested that patients with premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) may have an ...

Milestone articles have highlighted the frequency and types of statistical errors in research,1–5 yet fundamental errors ...

A recent meta-analysis has shown that loneliness and social isolation are risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke.1 These latest findings, specific to cardiovascular outcomes, are ...

Introduction Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) affects 1% of the general population. NOTCH1 was the first gene associated with BAV. The proportion of familial and sporadic BAV disease attributed to NOTCH1 ...

Legalisation of medical and recreational cannabis commerce is spreading around the world, associated with increased use1 and ...

Background Emerging evidence suggests associations between air pollution, multimorbidity, and atrial fibrillation (AF), but their interplay remains unclear. We evaluated these relationships in a ...

Background Mobility limitation is prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF), but the dose-response relationship between ...

The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on elevated blood pressure (BP) and hypertension reflect a shift from binary thresholds towards a risk-based management approach that aims to ...

Objective To investigate the prognostic impact of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction in patients with moderate aortic stenosis (AS) and preserved LV systolic function. Methods Patients with a ...

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 ...