1 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan 2 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan ...

Introduction Heart failure develops in 3%–5% of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and is associated with a ten-fold increase in mortality. Myocardial perfusion abnormalities using ...

Background Limited empirical evidence informs driving restrictions after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation. We sought to evaluate real-world motor vehicle crash risks after ICD ...

Background With the rising incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and the number of undiagnosed cases, there is an urgent need for innovative strategies for early identification of individuals ...

Introduction The added value of exercise ECG data to traditional risk factors in predicting cardiovascular events remains unclear. Deep learning of ECG signals has demonstrated state-of-the-art ...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) has become an important clinical tool to evaluate exercise capacity and predict outcome in patients with heart failure and other cardiac conditions. It provides ...

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Objective In the majority of studies, the effect of physical activity (PA) on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality is estimated at a single time point. The impact of long-term PA is likely to ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of death in the United States and Europe. Although there has been a decline in the number of deaths from myocardial infarction throughout the ...

Correspondence to Dr Alicja Bortkiewicz, Nofer Collegium, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 91-348 Lodz, Poland; Alicja.Bortkiewicz{at}imp.lodz.pl Cardiovascular disease (CVDs) is a major ...

Correspondence to Dr Tom Marshall, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; t.p.marshall{at}bham.ac.uk Objective Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most ...

Laboratoire d’Études Moléculaires des Valvulopathies (LEMV), Laval Hospital Research Center/ Quebec Heart Institute, Department of Surgery, Laval University, Québec, Canada Introduction: Aortic ...