Background Studies predating widespread COVID-19 vaccination identified patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) as a ...

Regular physical activity combined with structured exercise training has well described benefits for quality of life and ...

Background Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinics (RACPC) are widely used for the outpatient assessment of chest pain, but there ...

Correspondence to Dr Holly R Middlekauff, Division of Cardiology, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, California, USA; hmiddlekauff{at}mednet.ucla.edu Tobacco cigarette smoking is the most prevalent ...

Correspondence to: Tim C Clayton Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; tim.claytonlshtm.ac.uk Role of the funding source: The ...

Correspondence to Professor Kausik K Ray, Imperial Centre for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, Reynolds Bldg, ...

OBJECTIVE--To evaluate the incidence, characteristics, and haemodynamic consequences of pericardial effusion after cardiac surgery. DESIGN--Clinical, echocardiographic, and Doppler evaluations before ...

Cardiac myxomas (CM) are the most common type of primary cardiac tumours in adults, which have an approximate incidence of up to 0.2% in some autopsy series. The purpose of this review is to summarise ...

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Objective To investigate heart rate differences between non-dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers and beta-blockers in patients with non-permanent atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods Using data from ...

Objectives Bullying of trainee doctors has been shown to be associated with detrimental outcomes for both doctors and patients. However, there is limited evidence regarding the level of bullying of ...