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It is time to treat cannabis as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease
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 ...
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37 Personalising MET levels for moderate-vigorous physical activity, where public health recommendations can potentially miscategorise patients as only achieving light activity
1 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium; Department of Cardiology, UZ Leuven, Belgium 2 Exercise Physiology and Cardiovascular ...
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Stem cell therapy for myocardial repair
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to: Professor Peter L Weissberg Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of ...
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Severity of mobility limitation and adverse outcomes in heart failure
Background Mobility limitation is prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF), but the dose-response relationship between ...
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Individualised strategy of warfarin treatment for deep vein thromboembolism – case reports
2 Department of Family Physician, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University 3 Department of Family Physician, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University 4 Department of Medicine, Johns ...
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Cardiac rehabilitation and physical activity: systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective To undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the impact of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on physical activity (PA) levels of patients with heart disease and the methodological ...
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Five-minute heart rate variability can predict obstructive angiographic coronary disease
4 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Dipak Kotecha, Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, ...
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Management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1053-7840Paul M Haydock, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8126-9583Andrew S Flett To review the pathophysiology of heart failure with reduced ...
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Prevalence of exercise-induced left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in symptomatic patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Background: Resting left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) occurs in 25% of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and is an important cause of symptoms and disease progression.
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Vagally mediated atrioventricular block: pathophysiology and diagnosis
Vagally mediated atrioventricular (AV) block is defined as a paroxysmal AV block, localised within the AV node, associated with slowing of the sinus rate. All types of second-degree AV block, ...
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Positron emission tomography imaging in cardiovascular disease
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is useful in cardiovascular disease across several areas, from assessment of myocardial perfusion and viability, to highlighting atherosclerotic plaque ...
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Prognostic implications of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in moderate aortic stenosis
5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore 6 Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, Singapore Objective To investigate the prognostic ...