Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes more than 50% of deaths in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Clinical studies suggest that kidney-derived factors contribute to CVD ...

Cardiovascular and metabolic health are influenced by the circadian system, which regulates 24-hour rhythms across numerous physiologic processes. Disruptions to circadian rhythmicity can adversely ...

BACKGROUND: A 3-dimensional hyperboloid model has been proposed to characterize ventricular tachycardia (VT) circuitry. We ...

CoV-2, has led to the first approval of mRNA vaccines in humans. By producing the full-length SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein, they ...

Drug-induced cardiotoxicity (DICT) is a severe adverse drug reaction that affects the cardiovascular system and is a leading cause of drug withdrawals and clinical trial failures. 1 DICT prediction is ...

Background: Little correlation exists between the burden of ischemia and severity of angina in patients with stable coronary artery disease. This placebo-controlled, n-of-1 study investigated the ...

Increasing evidence suggests that inflammatory mechanisms are involved in the intracerebral hemorrhage–induced brain injury. We evaluated the prognostic role of the peripheral leukocyte counts and ...

Competing risks occur frequently in the analysis of survival data. A competing risk is an event whose occurrence precludes the occurrence of the primary event of interest. In a study examining time to ...

Cardiac troponin (cTn) testing is an essential component of the diagnostic workup and management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Although over the past 15 years the diagnostic performance of the ...

Most physicians in the 1920s were general practitioners with relatively little postgraduate training. Although they measured blood pressure routinely, electrocardiograms and chest X-rays were in the ...

Prehospital activation of in-hospital stroke response hastens treatment but depends on accurate emergency medical services (EMS) stroke recognition. We sought to measure EMS stroke recognition ...

This week, please join author Emily Lau, editorialist Sadiya Khan, and Associate Editor Kelly Chin as they discuss the article "Contemporary Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy: Insights ...