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Timing of heart failure diagnosis and uptake of newly recommended therapies following clinical guideline updates

Background Clinical guideline updates aim to ensure that patients benefit from emerging evidence, yet it is unclear whether ...
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Cardiac MRI of Lyme disease myocarditis

Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Correspondence to Dr Stephen P Harden, Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University ...
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Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for CVD: implications for evidence-based patient care and scientific inquiry

Correspondence to Dr Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84602, USA; julianne_holt-lunstad{at}byu.edu How should these data inform ...
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Habitual tub bathing and risks of incident coronary heart disease and stroke

Objective Tub bathing is considered to have a preventive effect against cardiovascular disease (CVD) by improving haemodynamic function. However, no prospective studies have investigated the long-term ...
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Mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation

Correspondence to Dr Dirk Westermann, Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany; d.westermann{at}uke.de Importantly, ...
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Structured telephone support or non-invasive telemonitoring for patients with heart failure

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ASSA13-17-3 The Prospective Clinical Trial of Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Control of Perioperative Hyperglycemia For the Children Undergoing the Palliative Congenital ...

1 Peking Union Medical College, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Center of Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, China Academy of Medicine Sciences 2 Fuwai Hospital, National Center for ...
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Management of infective endocarditis

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79 Hyperlipidaemia Reduces Mortality in Breast, Prostate, Lung and Bowel Cancer

Introduction Hyperlipidaemia is a well -established cardiovascular risk factor but the effect of hyperlipidaemia and treatment with cholesterol-lowering drugs on cancer remain equivocal. We aimed to ...
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Update on management of atrial fibrillation in heart failure: a focus on ablation

Atrial fibrillation is increasingly encountered in patients with heart failure. Both diseases have seen tremendous rises in incidence in recent years. In general, the treatment of atrial fibrillation ...
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Hypereosinophilic syndrome: considerations for the cardiologist

Eosinophil-mediated endomyocardial damage is a well-known complication in patients with hypereosinophilic syndromes (HES). Although management and survival have improved significantly, some patients ...
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Limitations of the New York Heart Association functional classification system and self-reported walking distances in chronic heart failure

Background: Two ways to evaluate the symptoms of heart failure are the New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification and asking patients how far they can walk (walk distance). The NYHA system is ...