Background and objectives The History, ECG, Age, Risk factors and Troponin (HEART) score is widely used for emergency ...
Aim Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goal attainment remains suboptimal among individuals with or at risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). We evaluated contemporary ...
Rationale Higher blood pressure variability (BPV) has been associated with adverse cardiovascular events in various clinical ...
Background Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major global health problem, accounting for up to 20% of deaths in Western societies. Clinical quality registries have been shown in a range of disease ...
For some time the alcohol-heart relationship has been a controversial topic in heart disease epidemiology.1–3 The relationship between average alcohol consumption and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is ...
Background International guidelines recommend percutaneous coronary intervention within 120 min for high-risk acute coronary syndrome. In Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago with a rising ...
Objective Smokeless tobacco use is a public health issue throughout the world, but reviews and analyses of circulatory disease risks associated with smokeless tobacco use may be outdated or incomplete ...
Background Chronic total occlusion (CTO) often triggers collateral coronary development, yet the relationship between angiographically graded collaterals and myocardial viability remains incompletely ...
Objectives Patients’ backgrounds and clinical outcomes in urgent/emergent/salvage transcatheter aortic valve replacement (Em-TAVR) remain unclear. We investigated patient characteristics and the ...
Background Catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) has emerged as a reperfusion strategy for intermediate-risk and high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), potentially improving thrombus resolution while ...
Objective To describe the natural history of cardiomyopathy in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who are receiving contemporary therapies. Methods This is a single-institution ...