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Premature ventricular complexes and risk of atrial fibrillation and stroke in patients without structural heart disease
Background and objective Prior studies have suggested that patients with premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) may have an ...
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Severity of mobility limitation and adverse outcomes in heart failure
Background Mobility limitation is prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF), but the dose-response relationship between ...
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Impact of air pollution and multimorbidity on the risk of incident atrial fibrillation
Background Emerging evidence suggests associations between air pollution, multimorbidity, and atrial fibrillation (AF), but their interplay remains unclear. We evaluated these relationships in a ...
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Contribution of NOTCH1 genetic variants to bicuspid aortic valve and other congenital lesions
Correspondence to Dr Radoslaw Marek Debiec, Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester College of Medicine Biological Sciences and Psychology, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; rmd24{at}le.ac.uk Aim The ...
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Incidence, predictors and clinical impact of upper gastrointestinal bleeding after transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Background Upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is common in patients with aortic stenosis due to the combination of acquired type 2A von ...
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Insights from Norway on implementing the 2024 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for elevated blood pressure and hypertension
The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on elevated blood pressure (BP) and hypertension reflect a shift from binary thresholds towards a risk-based management approach that aims to ...
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Prognostic implications of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in moderate aortic stenosis
5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore 6 Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, Singapore Objective To investigate the prognostic ...
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Outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in bicuspid versus tricuspid aortic stenosis with severe calcification
Background The comparative outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in bicuspid versus tricuspid aortic stenosis (AS) with severe calcification remain unclear. This study aimed to ...
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Tyrosine kinase inhibitors in chronic myeloid leukaemia and emergent cardiovascular disease
Objectives (1) Describe how the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in individuals with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) has evolved; (2) evaluate the risk of MACE associated with the ...
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When absence of evidence equates to evidence of absence: the case of routine use of cerebral embolic protection devices in transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Objectives This updated hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis aims to integrate the latest randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the use of cerebral embolic protection (CEP) in transcatheter aortic ...
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Reshaping the paradigm: towards holistic cardiovascular risk assessment in older adults
In his song ‘Envelhecer’ (‘Aging’), Arnaldo Antunes states that “the most modern thing there is in this life is to grow old”.1 In this piece, he reframes aging not only as an inevitable biological ...
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Opportunities and challenges of implementing computed tomography fractional flow reserve into clinical practice
Correspondence to Dr Edward D Nicol, Departments of Cardiology and Radiology, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Sydney Street, London, SW3 6NP, UK; e.nicol{at}nhs.net CT-derived ...