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Does angina vary with the menstrual cycle in women with premenopausal coronary artery disease?

OBJECTIVE To determine whether angina in women with established coronary heart disease varies with changes in hormone concentrations during the menstrual cycle. DESIGN Subjects were prospectively ...
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Differentiation between athlete’s heart and dilated cardiomyopathy in athletic individuals

Objective Distinguishing early dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) from physiological left ventricular (LV) dilatation with LV ejection fraction <55% in athletes (grey zone) is challenging. We evaluated the ...
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120 Echocardiographic versus cardiac catheterisation derived measures of right heart pressures: a retrospective analysis from the university hospitals of north midlands

Introduction Assessment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a common indication for transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE). PAH is defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP)>25 mmHg and is ...
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Surgery of valve disease: late results and late complications

Dr Peter Groves, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XW, UKgroves.peter{at}cardiffandvale.wales.nhs.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...
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Social class and coronary heart disease.

Over the past 40 years in England and Wales the rise in mortality from coronary heart disease has continued unabated among working-class men, whereas among professional men the rate has changed little ...
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Cardiac function and obesity

Correspondence to: Ramachandran S Vasan, MD, Framingham Heart Study, 73, Mt Wayte Avenue, Framingham, MA 01702, USA; vasan{at}fram.nhlbi.nih.gov ...
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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome or sudden cardiac death. Initial reports on this condition were scarce as they were based on postmortem ...
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Meta-analysis: mistake or milestone in medicine?

Correspondence to Farid Foroutan, Ted Rogers Centre of Excellence in Heart Function, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada; farid.foroutan{at}uhn.ca Since ...
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Human non-contrast T1 values and correlation with histology in diffuse fibrosis

1 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2 Heart Hospital Imaging Centre, Institute of ...
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Cardiorespiratory fitness and exercise-induced ST segment depression in assessing the risk of sudden cardiac death in men

Objective The aim of this study was to investigate whether information on both cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and exercise-induced ST segment depression improves the prediction of sudden cardiac ...
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Cardiac tumours: diagnosis and management

Dr Leonard M Shapiro, Department of Cardiology, Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridge CB3 RE, UKlms{at}doctors.org.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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Cardiac tumours: an update

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