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Impact of prognostic nutritional index on mortality among patients receiving coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a retrospective cohort study
Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...
BMJ4d
Prognostic implications of iron deficiency in patients with atrial fibrillation, with and without chronic heart failure
Background Iron deficiency (ID) is common in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), but its prognostic implications and optimal diagnostic criteria, particularly in those with and without ...
BMJ4d
Diastolic stress echocardiography: from basic principles to clinical applications
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) looms as a major public heart challenge with increasing prevalence due to an ageing population. Diagnosis can be challenging due to non-specific ...
BMJ4d
Relations between alcohol consumption, heart rate, and heart rate variability in men
2 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, St George Hospital UNSW, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to: Professor Laurence G Howes, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, St George ...
BMJ5d
A cost-effectiveness model of genetic testing for the evaluation of families with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
5 Centre for Applied Health Economics, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia 6 Department of Cardiology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 7 Department of ...
BMJ6d
Management of atrial fibrillation in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is frequent in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS). Pressure overload leads to marked structural and electrical remodelling of left atrium. The frequency of ...
BMJ6d
Vardenafil treatment for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a multicentre, open-label study
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Professor Z-C Jing, Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Shanghai ...
BMJ6d
Treatment of atrial flutter
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Albert L Waldo, MD, Division of Cardiology, Room 3080, Lakeside ...
BMJ7d
Dysglycaemia and incident aortic stenosis: a cohort study
Background Aortic stenosis is a degenerative condition with high mortality in its severe stages and no preventive treatment.
BMJ7d
Association between NT-proBNP levels and risk of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
Background and aims N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a well-established biomarker in clinical practice, particularly for heart failure, but its role in predicting atrial ...
BMJ8d
High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I and incident coronary heart disease among asymptomatic older adults
Objective High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) is a novel biomarker of myocardial injury and ischaemia. Our objective was to ascertain correlates of hs-cTnI and its incremental prognostic ...