Anticoagulation is a critical component in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Large randomised controlled trials have ...

The global pandemics of plague and smallpox in the Middle Ages claimed hundreds of millions of lives. In this era, long before the concepts of pathogens and infectious diseases were established, ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure yet often remains undiagnosed. Screening has been proposed to identify asymptomatic AF and ...

Obesity is an independent driver of cardiovascular disease (CVD), mediated through adverse haemodynamic loading, insulin resistance, systemic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction and prothrombotic ...

10 The George Institute for Global Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Background Cardiovascular risk is underassessed in women. Many women undergo screening ...

Correspondence to Professor Olaf Wendler, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, King's College Hospital London, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK; olaf.wendler{at}nhs.net Recognise ‘red flags’ in ...

1 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to Clare Teresa ...

1 King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, UK 2 National Institute for Health Research Biomedical ...

5 Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, and Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 6 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II, ...

Aims In people with heart failure (HF), a high body mass index (BMI) has been linked with better outcomes (‘obesity paradox’), but there is limited evidence in community populations across long-term ...

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