Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART)-treated people with HIV (PWH) have increased risk of heart failure with preserved ...

Background Up to 30% of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) have presented to hospital with ...

Background Percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure is an established intervention for secondary prevention of ...

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 ...

Objectives Accelerated atherosclerosis is a well-established phenomenon after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG). In this study, we analysed coronary artery calcium (CCS) progression after ...

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the world, but reviews and analyses of circulatory disease risks associated with smokeless tobacco use may be outdated or incomplete ...

Objective Most current cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk stratification tools are for people without CVD, but very few are for prevalent CVD. In this study, we developed and validated a CVD severity ...

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 ...

Objectives Assessment of frailty prior to aortic valve intervention is recommended in European and North American valvular heart disease guidelines. However, there is a lack of consensus on how it is ...