Background The Buckberg index, a diastolic to systolic pressure-time integral ratio, is a resting measure of myocardial oxygen supply and demand. It compares the delivery of oxygen to the heart muscle ...

Methods The nationwide study includes 22 488 intensive care patients in Uppsala, Karolinska and Lund University Hospitals, Sweden, between 2004 and 2015. Creatinine and cystatin C were analysed with ...

OBJECTIVE To characterise the central and regional haemodynamic effects of insulin in patients with chronic heart failure. DESIGN Single blind, placebo controlled study. SETTING University teaching ...

Findings Incident MACCE was reported in 4,082 (9.9%) individuals in the study population and 3,463(9.7%) individuals with valid ECG parameters over a median follow-up period of 12.5 years. We found ...

Cognitive impairment in cardiac patients may interfere with disease management. This review describes studies examining specific cognitive impairments in cardiac patients and studies that investigate ...

congenital junctional ectopic tachycardia; antiarrhythmic drugs; heart failure; Junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET) is a rare arrhythmia presenting either as a primary form 1 or more often as a ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common inherited cardiac disorder, is defined by unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy. HCM is associated with a range of clinical expressions, including ...

Objective In the majority of studies, the effect of physical activity (PA) on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality is estimated at a single time point. The impact of long-term PA is likely to ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. Approximately seven million people suffer from AF in Europe, and it is likely that several more millions suffer from ‘silent’, ...

Background and scope of the consensus statement. High blood pressure (BP) is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) disease globally and a major threat to society’s well-being, despite ...

The structural and functional abnormalities that lead to cardiac death are coronary artery disease and left ventricular abnormalities related to remodelling (left ventricular hypertrophy, left ...

There is a paucity of studies looking at the natural history of valvular heart disease (VHD) in exercising individuals, and exercise recommendations are largely based on expert consensus. All ...