Background Aortic valve calcification (AVC) is a disease process driven by inflammation and lipid infiltration, serving as a ...

Background The Fontan procedure is associated with long-term cardiac and non-cardiac complications and early mortality. Recent data suggest that some fibrosis scores may offer prognostic insight for ...

Background Sinoatrial node dysfunction and atrial fibrillation (AF) often coexist, and each potentially initiates or perpetuates the other. Consequently, genetic risk factors for AF may be associated ...

Background Socioeconomic disparities are associated with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in older populations, but evidence in young adults is limited. We investigated the association between income ...

2 Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal 3 Cardiology Department, CCUL, CAML, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal 4 ...

Correspondence to Dr Pierre-Antoine Dugué, Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global ...

Objective Although the factors associated with short-term survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are well established, relatively little is known about the factors that influence ...

Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common autosomal-dominant disorder in most European countries. Patients with FH are characterised by a raised level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and ...

Objective Determine maternity hospital and lesion-specific prenatal detection rates of major congenital heart disease (mCHD) for hospitals referring prenatally and postnatally to one Congenital ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor James C Moon, Barts Heart Center, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; j.moon{at}ucl.ac.uk Recognising lamin A/C heart ...

Background Long-term patterns of depressive symptoms among patients with heart failure, specifically those with a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), and their relationship with prognoses are not ...