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Persistent psychological distress and mortality in patients with stable coronary artery disease

Background A single assessment of psychological distress, which includes depression and anxiety, has been associated with increased mortality in patients with coronary heart disease, but the ...
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Resting heart rate: what is normal?

Correspondence to Dr David Nanchen, Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; david.nanchen{at}chuv.ch ...
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The risk of misdiagnosis in acute thoracic aortic dissection: a review of current guidelines

Acute aortic syndrome and in particular aortic dissection (AAD) persists as a cause of significant morbidity and mortality despite improvements in surgical management. This clinical review aims to ...
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Use of oral glucocorticoids and risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease in a population based case–control study

Objective: To assess whether use of oral glucocorticoids is associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity. Design and setting: Nested case–control study within a cohort of patients (⩾ ...
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‘Warm-up Angina’: harnessing the benefits of exercise and myocardial ischaemia

1 Department of Cardiology, King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, UK 2 Department of Cardiology, National ...
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Clinical predictors of cardiac syncope at initial evaluation in patients referred urgently to a general hospital: the EGSYS score

Objective: To develop, in patients referred for syncope to an emergency department (ED), a diagnostic score to identify those patients likely to have a cardiac cause. Design: Prospective cohort study.
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Cost of cardiovascular diseases in the United Kingdom

1 Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2 British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of ...
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Acute myocardial infarction: failed thrombolysis

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Management of stable angina: summary of NICE guidance

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Cardiac hypertrophy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and hyperparathyroidism--an association.

Left ventricular hypertrophy (symmetric, asymmetric, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) is an almost invariable accompaniment of primary hyperparathyroidism. Five of 18 patients with hypertrophic ...
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Natural history of left bundle-branch block.

The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with the development of complete left bundle-branch block and the prognosis in a group of people not in hospital, who had no clinical ...
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Haemodynamic effects of glucagon

The central and peripheral vascular haemodynamic effects of glucagon were studied in 29 patients. With a single dose method of 2 or 5 mg. glucagon intravenously the inotropic action of the drug ...