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Premature ventricular complexes and risk of atrial fibrillation and stroke in patients without structural heart disease
Background and objective Prior studies have suggested that patients with premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) may have an ...
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Top 10 statistical pitfalls: a reviewer’s guide to avoiding common errors
Milestone articles have highlighted the frequency and types of statistical errors in research,1–5 yet fundamental errors ...
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Severity of mobility limitation and adverse outcomes in heart failure
Background Mobility limitation is prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF), but the dose-response relationship between ...
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It is time to treat cannabis as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease
Legalisation of medical and recreational cannabis commerce is spreading around the world, associated with increased use1 and falling perception of the risk.2 Frequent cannabis use has increased in ...
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Impact of air pollution and multimorbidity on the risk of incident atrial fibrillation
Background Emerging evidence suggests associations between air pollution, multimorbidity, and atrial fibrillation (AF), but their interplay remains unclear. We evaluated these relationships in a ...
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Contribution of NOTCH1 genetic variants to bicuspid aortic valve and other congenital lesions | Heart
Introduction Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) affects 1% of the general population. NOTCH1 was the first gene associated with BAV. The proportion of familial and sporadic BAV disease attributed to NOTCH1 ...
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Incidence, predictors and clinical impact of upper gastrointestinal bleeding after transcatheter aortic valve replacement | Heart
Background Upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is common in patients with aortic stenosis due to the combination of acquired type 2A von ...
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Prognostic implications of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in moderate aortic stenosis | Heart
Objective To investigate the prognostic impact of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction in patients with moderate aortic stenosis (AS) and preserved LV systolic function. Methods Patients with a ...
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Insights from Norway on implementing the 2024 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for elevated blood pressure and hypertension | Heart
The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on elevated blood pressure (BP) and hypertension reflect a shift from binary thresholds towards a risk-based management approach that aims to ...
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Outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in bicuspid versus tricuspid aortic stenosis with severe calcification | Heart
Background The comparative outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in bicuspid versus tricuspid aortic stenosis (AS) with severe calcification remain unclear. This study aimed to ...
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Tyrosine kinase inhibitors in chronic myeloid leukaemia and emergent cardiovascular disease | Heart
Objectives (1) Describe how the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in individuals with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) has evolved; (2) evaluate the risk of MACE associated with the ...
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When absence of evidence equates to evidence of absence: the case of routine use of cerebral embolic protection devices in transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Objectives This updated hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis aims to integrate the latest randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the use of cerebral embolic protection (CEP) in transcatheter aortic ...