Background Restarting direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) after a serious bleeding event in patients with atrial fibrillation ...

Background Atrial fibrillation(AF) may be linked to increased sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk, but patients with AF are often ...

The obesity epidemic has significantly heightened the impact of cardiometabolic risk factors on the global burden of cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists ...

Background Although treatment options for heart failure (HF) have improved, advanced HF (AdHF) remains a challenging ...

Background The burden of cardiovascular events in Africa is projected to rise significantly in the coming decade, placing ...

Background Stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR) is a novel, non-invasive treatment for therapy-refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT). In STAR, a high dose of radiation is used to ...

Objective The comparative efficacy and safety of prasugrel and ticagrelor in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remain unclear. We aimed to ...

Background Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) has good modern results, but large multicentre longitudinal data on outcomes, especially hospital resource utilisation through childhood and adolescence, are ...

There are large knowledge gaps regarding the global epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF), in part due to the paucity of informative community-based or population-based studies representative of ...

Objective We conducted the first systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the specific prevalence of apparent treatment-resistant, pseudo-resistant and true-resistant hypertension among treated ...

A recent meta-analysis has shown that loneliness and social isolation are risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke.1 These latest findings, specific to cardiovascular outcomes, are ...

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 ...