Stroke, one of the most severe complications of atrial fibrillation (AF), can be prevented by oral anticoagulants in patients ...

Objective—To assess prevalence and type of non-atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in young people (≤35 years) who died suddenly. Design—A necropsy study of 150 consecutive cases of sudden death ...

2 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Background and aims Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) reduce mortality and hospitalisation in heart failure with ...

Correspondence to: Steve R Ommen, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55906, USA; omen.stevemayo.edu At the cellular level diastole can be ...

Objectives This study evaluates the 5-year clinical outcomes of transcatheter mitral valve (MV) repair with the MitraClip device in patients at high risk for MV surgery treated in the Endovascular ...

Correspondence to Dr Shamir R Mehta, Division of Cardiology, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario ON L8L 2X2, Canada; smehta{at}mcmaster.ca Objective Approximately 10% of patients with ...

Objective Using a large national database of people hospitalised with COVID-19, we investigated the contribution of cardio-metabolic conditions, multi-morbidity and ethnicity on the risk of ...

Background Limited strategies have been developed to evaluate and address the alarming discrepancy in early mortality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Objective To assess heart ...

OBJECTIVES Though atrial fibrillation (AF) is an important cause of cardiovascular morbidity, there are few large epidemiological studies of its prevalence, incidence, and risk factors. The ...