Introduction Inherited cardiac conditions, including dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), may ...

Background While female sex has historically been associated with worse outcomes following surgical aortic valve replacement, ...

Background Patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) are at high risk of mortality, regardless of symptom status. Despite ...

Background Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a hereditary disorder characterised by elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, substantially increasing the risk of ...

Objectives National dietary guidelines were introduced in 1977 and 1983, by the US and UK governments, respectively, with the ambition of reducing coronary heart disease (CHD) by reducing fat intake.

Objective Most current cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk stratification tools are for people without CVD, but very few are for prevalent CVD. In this study, we developed and validated a CVD severity ...

Objectives The advent of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) systems employing large language models such as ChatGPT has sparked public, professional and academic debates on the capabilities ...

Objective Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute heart failure syndrome which resembles acute coronary syndrome (ACS) at presentation. Differentiation requires coronary angiography, but where this does ...

Background Stroke volume is an established echocardiographic marker but has not been widely studied in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). We aimed to evaluate stroke ...

Background Fibrocalcific aortic valve sclerosis (AVSc), the earliest manifestation of aortic stenosis (AS), is increasingly recognised as a marker of systemic vascular damage and adverse ...

For some time the alcohol-heart relationship has been a controversial topic in heart disease epidemiology.1–3 The relationship between average alcohol consumption and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is ...