Background Iron deficiency (ID) is common in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), but its prognostic implications and optimal diagnostic criteria, particularly in those with and without ...

Background Early heart failure (HF) diagnosis is crucial to ensure that optimal guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is ...

8 F-CRIN INI-CRCT Cardiovascular and Renal Clinical Trialists, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France Objective It is not fully understood whether and how socioeconomic status (SES) has a prognostic impact in ...

5 Centre for Applied Health Economics, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia 6 Department of Cardiology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 7 Department of ...

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Professor Z-C Jing, Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Shanghai ...

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1053-7840Paul M Haydock, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8126-9583Andrew S Flett To review the pathophysiology of heart failure with reduced ...

Objectives Non-contrast CT aortic valve calcium scoring ignores the contribution of valvular fibrosis in aortic stenosis. We assessed aortic valve calcific and non-calcific disease using ...

Objective To examine association of COVID-19 with incident cardiovascular events in 17 871 UK Biobank cases between March 2020 and 2021. Methods COVID-19 cases were defined using health record linkage ...

Background: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) improves symptoms and prognosis in patients with heart failure and cardiac dyssynchrony. Guidelines from the National Institute of Health and ...

Background and aims N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a well-established biomarker in clinical practice, particularly for heart failure, but its role in predicting atrial ...

Objectives Characterisation of trends in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) outcomes are critical to informing clinical practice and quality improvement, but there are few recent population studies for ACS ...

The management of atrial fibrillation (AF) has focused on anticoagulation, rhythm control and ventricular rate control. Recently, a fourth pillar of AF management has been incorporated recognising the ...