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Implementing clinical practice guidelines in cardiology: accelerating the translation of evidence into practice

Clinical practice guidelines form the foundation of evidence-based care in cardiology, yet gaps persist between the care ...
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Parsimonious echocardiography-based model for predicting long-term all-cause mortality in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Background The Heart Failure Association Pre-test Assessment, Echocardiography and Natriuretic Peptide, Functional testing, ...
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Persistent precordial “hyperacute” T-waves signify proximal left anterior descending artery occlusion

Objective: To describe patients with a distinct electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern without ST-segment elevation in the presence of an acute occlusion of the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery ...
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Chocolate intake and risk of clinically apparent atrial fibrillation: the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Mostofsky, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Kresge Building, Room 505-B, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ...
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Joint British Societies’ consensus recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (JBS3)

British Cardiovascular Society, Association of British Clinical Diabetologists, British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation, British Association for Nursing in Cardiovascular ...
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in contemporary cardiology: physiological insights, novel applications and evolving algorithms

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) allows for the study of the pathophysiology of exercise intolerance through assessment of exercise integrative physiology of the pulmonary, cardiovascular, ...
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Significant lead-induced tricuspid regurgitation is associated with poor prognosis at long-term follow-up

3 Department of Biostatistics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Nina Ajmone Marsan, Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, ...
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Vagally mediated atrioventricular block: pathophysiology and diagnosis

Vagally mediated atrioventricular (AV) block is defined as a paroxysmal AV block, localised within the AV node, associated with slowing of the sinus rate. All types of second-degree AV block, ...
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Interstitial lung disease is a risk factor for ischaemic heart disease and myocardial infarction

Objectives Despite many shared risk factors and pathophysiological pathways, the risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and myocardial infarction (MI) in interstitial lung disease (ILD) remains poorly ...
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Why and when to screen for cardiovascular disease in healthy individuals

The rationale, need and opportunity of multiple screening. Although the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has decreased in recent decades, CVD remains a major healthcare challenge. In Europe ...
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Drivers of 1-year mortality decline after acute myocardial infarction in England and Wales: a 15-year national cohort study

Background One-year mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has declined over time, yet the reasons for this improvement remain unclear. Understanding the drivers of these changes is ...