Background Evidence supporting dietary interventions for heart failure (HF) prevention remains limited. The Dietary ...

Background Quality of life (QoL) measures are commonly used in randomised trials assessing therapies for stable angina. As ...

Background The optimal revascularisation strategy for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after ...

Objective To test the effectiveness of an impedance cardiography (ICG) guided treatment strategy on improving blood pressure (BP) control in real-world clinical practice. Design A single-centre, ...

Objective To investigate the diagnostic performance of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) for assessing significant coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients referred for surgical aortic valve replacement ...

Introduction Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) reduce mortality and morbidity in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), but are largely underused. We evaluated ...

Because serum magnesium does not reflect intracellular magnesium, the latter making up more than 99% of total body magnesium, most cases of magnesium deficiency are undiagnosed. Furthermore, because ...

Objective In this randomised two-period crossover trial, the objective was to compare acute changes in arterial distensibility between high-intensity interval physical exercise (HIIPE) and ...

Background Numerous studies have highlighted the burden of hypertension by estimating its prevalence. However, information regarding quantum and characteristics of persons whose blood pressure ...

Background Hypertension is a risk factor for bleeding events and is included in the HAS-BLED (Hypertension, Abnormal renal/liver function, Stroke, Bleeding history or predisposition, Labile INR, ...

Background Catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) has emerged as a reperfusion strategy for intermediate-risk and high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), potentially improving thrombus resolution while ...

Background Serum potassium (sK) disorders are associated with worse outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This study introduced a novel metric, time in ...