Background The Assessing cardiovascular risk using Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (ASSIGN) risk score, developed in 2006, is used in Scotland for estimating the 10-year risk of first ...

Background Despite sub-optimal long-term results DC electrical cardioversion (DCCV) remains a main stay in atrial fibrillation (AF) management. In selected patients long-term success at 6 weeks is ...

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK Dr Alison Hislop, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK; a.hislop{at}ich.ucl.ac ...

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 investigate how patients with heart failure with preserved left ventricular systolic function (LVSF) compare with patients with reduced LVSF. Design: Cohort study. Setting: Urban ...

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, ...

1 Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2 Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the ...