Division of Cardiology, Shimada Municipal Hospital, Shimada City, Shizuoka, Japan Correspondence to: Makoto Kondo, MD, Division of Cardiology, Shimada Municipal ...

1 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Lower Lane, Liverpool, MSY L9 7AL, United Kingdom 2 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Introduction Heart failure (HF) co-exists ...

Correspondence to Dr Lazaros K Kochilas, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta GA 30341, USA; lazaros.Kochilas{at}emory.edu ...

Objectives Vascular stiffness (VS) and vascular calcification (VC) are surrogate markers of vascular health associated with cardiovascular events. Vitamin K-dependent proteins (VKDP) are associated ...

Correspondence to Dr Stephen W Waldo, VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System, 1055 Clermont Street, Denver, CO 80220, USA; stephen.waldo{at}ucdenver.edu Peripheral artery disease (PAD) includes ...

a Paediatrics, Imperial College School of Medicine at National Heart and Lung Institute, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK, b Paediatric Cardiology Department, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK ...

Objective To study abnormalities in the resting ECG as independent predictors for all cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in a population based random ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse led shared care programme to improve coronary heart disease risk factor levels and general health status and to reduce anxiety and depression in ...

Correspondence to Dr Anenta Ramakrishnan, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine, London, UK; anenta.ramakrishnan{at}imperial.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or ...

Professor Keith AA Fox, Department of Cardiology, The Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh EH3 9YW, UK email:k.a.a.fox{at}ed.ac.uk ...

Introduction In the setting of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI), it has been shown that stenting compared to balloon angioplasty (BA) reduces the need for repeat revascularisation but ...

Care provided by specialist nurses has been shown to improve outcomes for patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), significantly reducing the number of unplanned readmissions, length of hospital ...