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Each year the Heart editorial team selects the most meritorious research papers to receive the Heart Best Research Paper Award.. We are pleased to announce the winner and finalists for the Heart Best Research Paper Award 2024 in recognition of high quality and clinical impact.
Calcium and vitamin D supplement: right or wrong? - Heart
Intuitively, one might think that supplementing vitamins and minerals would be the right thing to do especially in older and comorbid people. Every year, billions of dollars are spent in this belief.1 However, we may all be wrong. A present study in this journal demonstrates a significantly increased cardiovascular (CV) mortality in elderly patients supplementing calcium, be it …
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Heart is an international peer reviewed journal that keeps cardiologists up to date with important research advances in cardiovascular disease. New scientific developments are highlighted in editorials and put in context with concise review articles. There is one free Editor’s Choice article in each issue, with open access options available to authors for all articles.
Bradyarrhythmias in patients with atrial fibrillation | Heart
The increasing burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) and significant morbidity/mortality associated with this arrhythmia encourage screening it in clinical practice, as recommended in current guidelines. It means opportunistic screening (in patients over 65 years) or systematic screening (in people above 75 years) by using clinical examination, followed by an ECG, 24-hour ECG monitoring or ...
Ebstein’s anomaly in children and adults: multidisciplinary ... - Heart
Although survival has significantly improved in the last four decades, the diagnosis of Ebstein’s anomaly is still associated with a 20-fold increased risk of mortality, which generally drops after neonatal period and increases subtly thereafter. With increasing age of presentation, appropriate timing of intervention is challenged by a wide spectrum of disease and paucity of data on patient ...
Clinical relevance of arrhythmias during sleep: guidance for ... - Heart
Cardiac rhythm during sleep is influenced by the autonomic nervous system and various pathologic states. Most arrhythmias that occur during sleep are detected incidentally on Holter recordings, and are in fact benign. Although such findings may not necessitate further investigation, they may be an important clue to an underlying disorder in need of investigation and treatment. It is important ...
Prevalence, incidence and survival of heart failure: a systematic ...
Studies of the epidemiology of heart failure in the general population can inform assessments of disease burden, research, public health policy and health system care delivery. We performed a systematic review of prevalence, incidence and survival for all available population-representative studies to inform the Global Burden of Disease 2020. …
Diagnosis and management of resistant hypertension - Heart
Definition of resistant hypertension. Resistant hypertension is generally defined as uncontrolled clinic blood pressure (>140/90 mm Hg) after treatment with three or more antihypertensives. 5 In the UK, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines specify that these three should include optimal doses of an ACE inhibitor (or an angiotensin receptor blocker), a …
Resting heart rate: what is normal?
Resting heart rate (RHR) is a clinical parameter easily measurable with typical value between 50 and 90 beats per minute (bpm) that varies during the day with a night-time decrease.1 RHR can go down to 30 bpm in those with good physical condition, but RHR is also partly genetically determined, with slightly higher values in women than in men.2 The interpretation of …
Recent advances in percutaneous coronary intervention - Heart
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) continues to advance at pace with an ever-broadening indication. In this article we will review the recent technological advances in PCI that have enabled more complex coronary disease to be treated. The choice of revascularisation strategy must take into account the evidence—just because we can treat by PCI does not necessarily mean we should. When ...