A 41 year old man presented with an eight year history of paroxysmal attacks of chest pain, palpitations, excessive sweating, nausea, headache, and pallor. Six years previously he had undergone ...

Background Cancer survivors have an increased risk of heart failure, but this is balanced by the risk of death from other ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the cost effectiveness of ramipril treatment in patients at low, medium, and high risk of cardiovascular death.

The vascular endothelium is a monolayer of cells between the vessel lumen and the vascular smooth muscle cells. Far from being inert, it is metabolically active and produces a variety of vasoactive ...

Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), ...

Background In Kuwait, coronary artery disease (CAD) has a mortality rate of 30% (World life Expectancy, 2020). In Kuwait, weather, food, cultural and social norms can act as influencing factors in ...

Background Chronic kidney disease is common in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and can significantly affect drug excretion and efficacy. This study focuses on the effects of modification ...

Background Heterogeneity of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) results in significant challenges for treatment development. Identifying and characterising distinct HFpEF ...

Background We aimed to evaluate the association between atrial fibrillation (AF) burden, duration and number of episodes with healthcare utilisation and quality of life in patients with early ...

The rapid rise in rates of obesity in recent decades represents a major challenge in healthcare provision. In Ireland in 2011, 26% of men and 21% of women were obese. Analysis from the United Kingdom ...

Objective Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterised by apical systolic obliteration and is associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), stroke, heart failure (HF), and mortality. We ...