Background Severe aortic stenosis (AS) is commonly associated with advanced cardiac damage, including right ventricular dysfunction (RVD), pulmonary hypertension (PH) and tricuspid regurgitation (TR), ...

Background The epidemiology and long-term healthcare utilisation associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) among those ...

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

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of the leading causes of mortality in England, with its burden disproportionately ...

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 ...

Objective Severe secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR) causes significant right atrial (RA) volume overload, resulting in structural and functional RA-remodelling. This study evaluated whether ...

The systematic review and meta-analysis recently published in Heart provides the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the survival benefit associated with guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) ...

In the early 2000s, the natural history of heart failure (HF) was vividly illustrated, highlighting a defining feature of HF progression: a prolonged course of fluctuating yet steadily worsening ...

Correspondence to Dr Victoria Delgado, Department of Cardiology, Heart and Lung Center, Leiden University Medical Center; Albinusdreef 2, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; v.delgado{at}lumc.nl If you ...

Correspondence to Dr Gregory Roth, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; rothg{at}uw.edu Studies of the epidemiology of heart failure in ...

Objectives Dedicated studies aimed at investigating the relationship between walking pace and arrhythmia are limited. This study assessed associations between self-reported and accelerometer measured ...