Objective To investigate whether nighttime sleep duration and snoring status were associated with incident heart failure (HF). Methods A prospective study was conducted based on Kailuan cohort ...

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

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 ...

Introduction Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is a structural and functional condition that precedes the development of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The etiology of ...

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 ...

Introduction Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) exerts paracrine effects on the myocardium. More lipid-laden adipocytes, with lower attenuation on computed tomography (CT), are associated with greater ...

Implantation of drug-eluting stents (DESs) remains central to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and chronic coronary syndromes (CCS). DES platforms, polymers ...

Objective The use of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) for prevention of infective endocarditis (IE) is controversial. In recent years, guidelines to cardiologists and dentists have advised restriction of ...

Clinical introduction A 49-year-old man presented to the emergency department following sudden onset chest pain with collapse. He was refurbishing his home when he collapsed on the floor with chest ...