Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), ...

Background Cancer survivors have an increased risk of heart failure, but this is balanced by the risk of death from other ...

Background Chronic kidney disease is common in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and can significantly affect drug excretion and efficacy. This study focuses on the effects of modification ...

Background Heart failure (HF) imposes a major health burden on women. While traditional (well-established) risk factors are ...

Objective To evaluate the association between chocolate intake and incident clinically apparent atrial fibrillation or flutter (AF). Methods The Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study is a large ...

In the context of a steadily ageing population, there is a continuous increase in the prevalence and incidence of all primary chronic conditions.1 Among the chronic conditions, heart failure (HF), ...

Objective To investigate whether nighttime sleep duration and snoring status were associated with incident heart failure (HF). Methods A prospective study was conducted based on Kailuan cohort ...

Objective Patients with unoperated single ventricle (SV) rarely survive into adulthood with good functional status and may develop Eisenmenger's syndrome (ES). We report outcomes of a 30-year cohort ...

Background Current risk scores inadequately predict long-term mortality after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), limiting their ability to guide decisions around procedural futility. We ...

Implantation of drug-eluting stents (DESs) remains central to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and chronic coronary syndromes (CCS). DES platforms, polymers ...

Clinical introduction A 75-year-old patient with hypertension and severe aortic stenosis underwent elective coronary angiography that showed mild non-obstructive disease in the mid left anterior ...