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Drug-associated Takotsubo syndrome risk profiling: a global pharmacovigilance study

Background Drug exposure has been reported in association with Takotsubo syndrome, but the breadth and relative strength of ...
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Prognostic importance of exercise electrocardiography in patients with suspected microvascular disease

Background Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) is associated with a poor prognosis but is difficult to diagnose non-invasively. In a recent paper, ST-segment depression on exercise-ECG was found ...
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Heart rate in early rhythm control therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation

Background Preventing high heart rates in atrial fibrillation (AF) is recommended to reduce AF-related symptoms and morbidity. Evidence on a strong relationship between lower heart rate during AF and ...
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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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Validation of the European Society of Cardiology 0/1-hour algorithm for chest pain triage in Asian emergency departments: a multinational stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial

Background Rapid triage of patients presenting with chest pain is essential for early diagnosis and safe disposition. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour hs-cTn algorithm has shown ...
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The economic burden of coronary heart disease in the UK

1 Health Economics Research Centre, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2 British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Institute of Health Sciences, University ...
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Takotsubo syndrome: aetiology, presentation and treatment

Correspondence to Prof Christian Templin, Director Acute Cardiology, Andreas Grüntzig Heart Catheterization Laboratories, University Hospital Zurich, University Heart Center, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 ...
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Increased coronary heart disease and stroke hospitalisations from ambient temperatures in Ontario

Objective To assess the associations between ambient temperatures and hospitalisations for coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. The relationship of temperatures with cardiovascular-related ...
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Pacing induced cardiomyopathy: recognition and management

Right ventricle (RV) apex continues to remain as the standard pacing site in the ventricle due to ease of implantation, procedural safety and lack of convincing evidence of better clinical outcomes ...
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Significantly increased risk of all-cause mortality among cardiac patients feeling lonely

Objective To explore whether living alone and loneliness 1) are associated with poor patient-reported outcomes at hospital discharge and 2) predict cardiac events and mortality 1 year after hospital ...
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Cardiovascular disease and mortality sequelae of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank

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 ...
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Retinal vascular fingerprints predict incident stroke: findings from the UK Biobank cohort study

Objective To investigate the associations between a comprehensive set of retinal vascular parameters and incident stroke to unveil new associations and explore its predictive power for stroke risk.