An Important Window of Opportunity to Optimize Maternal Health.
This narrative review highlights the substantial long-term cardiovascular risk associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and positions the postpartum period as a critical window for…
Contemporary Prevention, Recognition, and Management.
This narrative review outlines contemporary strategies for preventing, recognizing, and managing major complications following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). It emphasizes the…
This European Heart Journal review addresses the frequent loss to follow-up and care gaps when transitioning patients with inherited arrhythmia syndromes (LQTS, CPVT, Brugada) from paediatric to…
consensus statement by the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on blood pressure monitoring.
The European Society of Hypertension has issued a consensus statement on wearable wristwatch cuff oscillometric blood pressure monitors. A systematic review identified only two devices (Omron…
insights from the TEXTMEDS randomised clinical trial
Good risk-factor control and medication adherence after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) help determine long-term prognosis, and sex plays a role. In this secondary analysis of the randomised…
An Integrated Review of a Bidirectional Relationship.
This integrated review examines the bidirectional relationship between frailty and heart failure in older adults, highlighting how frailty independently predicts incident HF while HF accelerates…
Cancer survivors are at risk of heart failure (HF), partly from prior cancer therapy, but early predictors are scarce. Chronic low-grade inflammation has been linked to both cancer and HF. In this UK…
Although interest in male-female differences in cardiovascular disease is growing, evidence in infective endocarditis (IE) is limited and contradictory. This prospective study included 791 patients…
Aligning the timing of exercise with chronotype ('morning' or 'evening' type) may yield greater cardiometabolic benefit. In this 12-week randomised trial (Lahore, Pakistan; 150 sedentary adults aged…
European journal of heart failureKidney diseaseLifestyle
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and is linked to worse outcomes via unclear mechanisms. In this cohort of 925 HFpEF patients…
Massive left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but its natural history is poorly understood. This analysis…
Massive left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but its natural history is poorly understood. This analysis…