Up to 40% of older women living in the community experience urinary incontinence. In community settings, urinary incontinence impacts the quality of life, morbidity, and mortality rates. How...
This study aimed to identify relationships in recently diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with respect to anticoagulation status, use of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) fo...
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The evaluation of myocardial contractility is essential in cardiology practice. The gold standard for this evaluation is the end-systolic elastance, but it the method involved is complex. Ec...
Elderly patients after hospitalisation for acute events on account of age-related diseases (eg, joint or heart valve replacement surgery) are often characterised by a remarkably reduced func...
In basilar artery occlusion, endovascular thrombectomy within 12 hours of onset improved functional outcomes at 90 days versus best medical management alone. “Despite the overwhelmi...
Current evidence on TAVI has been generated exclusively by cardiology studies and no operative data from cardiac surgeons are available. Here we describe the development of our TAVI program ...
Treatment adherence and persistence impact the effectiveness of edoxaban for the prevention of thromboembolism in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The objective of this analysis was t...
Inflammatory processes in the oral cavity have been linked to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases while periodontitis and dental caries are some of the most common inflammatory disea...
A population-based study including more than 51,000 patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) showed compared with non-use of statins, statin use was linked with a lower risk for ischemic strok...
Background 2018 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology cholesterol guideline recommends statin in patients with chronic and/or stable liver disease for secondary pr...
Body wasting in patients with cancer can affect the heart.The frequency, extent, and clinical and prognostic importance of cardiac wasting in cancer patients is unknown.This study prospectiv...
A substudy of the POWER FAST III trial demonstrated that a high-power, short-duration radiofrequency (HPSD RF) application for pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is associated with a higher ri...
CHADS₂ and CHA₂DS₂-VASc scores are widely used in clinical practice and include similar risk factors for the development of coronary artery disease (CAD). It is known that the factors ...
The FREEDOM COVID Anticoagulation trial failed to demonstrate that therapeutic anticoagulation compared with prophylactic anticoagulation reduces 30-day composite events among non-critically...
People with gender dysphoria on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as part of gender affirmation therapy have substantially increased odds of serious cardiac events and other problems, includ...
To appraise all available antithrombotic treatments within or after 12 months following coronary revascularization and/or acute coronary syndrome in two network meta-analyses (NMA).Forty-thr...
Several lines of evidence have clearly indicated that inflammation plays a pivotal role in the development of atherosclerosis and of its thrombotic complications such as acute coronary syndr...
Little is known about the relationship between blood pressure (BP) and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) in people with proteinuria and a preserved estimated glomerular filtration rate (...
Left ventricular (LV) thrombus is an increasingly recognised complication following anterior myocardial infarction and non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy. Whilst vitamin K antagonists (VKA) remain...
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