Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Coronary blood flow is dependent upon arterial pressure, ...

Correspondence to Professor Demosthenes Panagiotakos, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Attica 176 71, Greece; dbpanag{at}hua.gr Contributors Both authors met the ICMJE ...

BHF Health Promotion Research Group, Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, UK Dr M O’Flaherty, Division of Public Health, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, University of ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of prenatal exposure to maternal malnutrition on coronary heart disease in people born around the time of the Dutch famine, 1944–45. DESIGN Historical cohort study.

CRY Centre for Cardiac Pathology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK Objective: To characterise the demographics and aetiology of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in athletes ...

OBJECTIVE--To assess the arrangement of myocardial bridges. DESIGN--A necropsy study of 90 consecutive hearts (56 male, 34 female). RESULTS--Myocardial bridges, either single or multiple, were seen in ...

The structural and functional abnormalities that lead to cardiac death are coronary artery disease and left ventricular abnormalities related to remodelling (left ventricular hypertrophy, left ...

Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron. Barcelona, Spain Professor Jordi Soler-Soler, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron, P Vall ...

Cardiothoracic Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London, UK Correspondence to Professor John B Chambers, Cardiothoracic Centre, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK; john.chambers{at}gstt.nhs ...

Objective: To assess whether use of oral glucocorticoids is associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity. Design and setting: Nested case–control study within a cohort of patients (⩾ ...

Hearing impairment, psychological distress, and incident heart failure: a prospective cohort study ...

Background In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), most of the factors associated with the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) are also involved in the pathophysiology of exercise limitation. The present ...