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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 ...
Heart

Plasma heart-type fatty acid-binding protein, omega-3 fatty acids and adverse cardiac events in the general population

Background Heart-type fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP), a principal intracellular transporter of long-chain fatty acids ...
Heart

Long-term cortisol exposure and echocardiographic measures of cardiac structure and function

Background Chronic activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis due to long-term stress, reflected by elevated hair ...
HeartOpinion

Carbon footprint of cardiovascular technologies: a new dimension of value

Carbon emissions and environmental pollutants are responsible for deaths, property damage and reduction in population health ...
Heart

From task-specific AI to cardiovascular foundation models: a new era of multimodal interpretation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cardiovascular medicine, evolving from task-specific supervised models towards ...
BMJ

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 ...
BMJ

Improving outcomes in chronic aortic regurgitation: timely diagnosis, access to specialist assessment and earlier surgery

Correspondence to Professor Bernard D Prendergast, Cardiovascular Department, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK; bernard.prendergast{at}gstt.nhs.uk Chronic aortic regurgitation (AR) is ...
BMJ

Incidence of acute rheumatic fever in the world: a systematic review of population-based studies

Faculty of Health Sciences, Tygerberg Hospital and University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa Professor B M Mayosi, Department of Medicine, J Floor Old Main Building, Groote Schuur Hospital, ...
BMJ

Inflammation markers and risk of developing hypertension: a meta-analysis of cohort studies

Correspondence to Dr Sakineh Shab-Bidar, Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14155/6117, Iran; s_shabbidar{at ...
BMJ

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 ...
BMJ

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in low-to-medium surgical risk patients: time for a reappraisal?

The prevalence of severe aortic stenosis (AS) is increasing globally, mainly due to ageing of populations and concomitant with this rise, deaths related to severe AS are also increasing.1 2 The ...
BMJ

Underdiagnosis, treatment pattern and awareness of chronic kidney disease in cardiovascular disease population: results from a national observational study in China

Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents one of the most significant risk factors for adverse cardiovascular events and mortality. Data on real-world clinical practice of Chinese patients ...