Background: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) improves symptoms and prognosis in patients with heart failure and cardiac dyssynchrony. Guidelines from the National Institute of Health and ...

Introduction Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of death in the UK with estimated 2.3 million people living with coronary artery disease [1]. Effective cardiac rehabilitation can improve ...

Objective To undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the impact of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on physical activity (PA) levels of patients with heart disease and the methodological ...

Background Heart failure (HF) guidelines recommend routine testing for iron deficiency (ID) and, for those with ID, ...

In recent large-scale cardiovascular outcome trials, two new classes of glucose-lowering medications—sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists ...

Two cases which exhibited a Wenckebach form of exit conduction between an electrical pacemaker and the ventricular myocardium are presented. This manifests with increasing latency (stimulus to QRS ...

Correspondence to Dr Rohan S Wijesurendra, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; rohan.wijesurendra{at}cardiov.ox.ac.uk; Professor Barbara Casadei, Division of ...

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1053-7840Paul M Haydock, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8126-9583Andrew S Flett To review the pathophysiology of heart failure with reduced ...

Objective To evaluate the long-term clinical efficacy of Valsartan in combination with aniodarone on maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with non-valvular paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF).

1 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow 2 Institute for Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde Individuals with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) ...

Correspondence to Hualiang Lin, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; linhualiang{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn Objectives We aimed to ...

Objectives To compare effectiveness of warfarin and antiplatelet exposure regarding both thrombotic and bleeding events, following surgical aortic valve replacement ...