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The global pandemics of plague and smallpox in the Middle Ages claimed hundreds of millions of lives. In this era, long before the concepts of pathogens and infectious diseases were established, ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure yet often remains undiagnosed. Screening has been proposed to identify asymptomatic AF and ...

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10 The George Institute for Global Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Background Cardiovascular risk is underassessed in women. Many women undergo screening ...

1 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to Clare Teresa ...

Correspondence to Dr Rakesh M Suri, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA; surir{at}ccf.org Contemporary ...

5 Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, and Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 6 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II, ...

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At present there is no universally accepted nomenclature for congenital cardiac malformations. Much of the controversy results from failure to distinguish the structural connections of the heart from ...

Objective To study the association of self-reported physical activity level with prognosis in a cohort of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), with a special focus on the dose–response ...