Correspondence to A/Prof Sarah Zaman, Westmead Applied Research Centre and Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, 2145, Australia; ...

1 McGill University Health Centre, Montreal QC, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, GLEN campus, 1001 Decarie, Montreal, Quebec, ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether anginal episodes might be related to extremes of hypotension in patients with ischaemic heart disease taking drugs to treat angina and heart failure. DESIGN AND SETTING ...

5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 6 Uppsala Clinical Research Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, ...

Background No previous long-term studies have examined if workers with low physical fitness have an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality due to long work hours. The aim of this study was to test ...

Correspondence to Dr Arushi Singh, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA; arushi.singh{at}northwestern.edu Objective Diuretics reduce congestion in patients with ...

Background Guideline size criteria for prophylactic repair of ascending aortic aneurysm do not account for sex, although some evidence suggests women may experience acute type A aortic dissection ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the application of guidelines in the decision making process leading to medical or surgical treatment for aortic stenosis in elderly patients. DESIGN Cohort analysis based on a ...

Correspondence to Dr Narayanswami Sreeram, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Heart Centre Cologne, University Hospital of Cologne, Kerpenerstrasse 62, 50973 Cologne, Germany; n.sreeram{at}uni-koeln ...

Correspondence to Dr Marc William Deyell, Heart Rhythm Services, Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6E 1M7, Canada; mdeyell{at}providencehealth.bc.ca Objective The ...

Department of Cardiology, King’s College London, Cardiovascular Division, London, UK Correspondence to: Professor A M Shah Department of Cardiology, King’s College London School of Medicine, Bessemer ...

Correspondence to Dr Jean Joel Bigna, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon; bignarimjj{at}yahoo.fr Objective We conducted the first systematic ...