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Cardiovascular benefits of obesity therapies: an overview of obesity medicines and metabolic bariatric surgery

Obesity is an independent driver of cardiovascular disease (CVD), mediated through adverse haemodynamic loading, insulin resistance, systemic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction and prothrombotic ...
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Prognostic importance of exercise electrocardiography in patients with suspected microvascular disease

Background Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) is associated with a poor prognosis but is difficult to diagnose non-invasively. In a recent paper, ST-segment depression on exercise-ECG was found ...
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Validation of the European Society of Cardiology 0/1-hour algorithm for chest pain triage in Asian emergency departments: a multinational stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial

Background Rapid triage of patients presenting with chest pain is essential for early diagnosis and safe disposition. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour hs-cTn algorithm has shown ...
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Apical ballooning of the left ventricle: first series in white patients

Correspondence to: Dr Walter Desmet, UH Gasthuisberg, Cardiology Department, Herestraat 49, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Walter.Desmet{at}uz.kuleuven.ac.be Background: A cardiac syndrome of “apical ...
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The Swedish Web-system for Enhancement and Development of Evidence-based care in Heart disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies (SWEDEHEART)

5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 6 Uppsala Clinical Research Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, ...
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Effectiveness of the LUCAS device for mechanical chest compression after cardiac arrest: systematic review of experimental, observational and animal studies

Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Simon Gates, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Division of ...
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The role of nurses in the management of heart failure

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 ...
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Clinical anatomy of the aortic root

Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK Professor Robert Anderson, Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N ...
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Effects of dabigatran according to age in atrial fibrillation

Objective The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) and the risk of stroke and bleeding vary according to age. To estimate effects of dabigatran, compared with warfarin, on stroke, bleeding and ...
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Exercise training in dilated cardiomyopathy improves rest and stress cardiac function without changes in cardiac high energy phosphate metabolism

1 Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, UK 2 University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, (OCMR), Department of ...
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Peripheral venous pressure changes during exercise are associated with adverse Fontan outcomes

Objective Elevated central venous pressure (CVP) plays an important role in the development of adverse Fontan outcomes. Peripheral venous pressure (PVP) has been validated as a surrogate for CVP in ...
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Extremely cold and hot temperatures increase the risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality: epidemiological evidence from China

2 School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4 ...