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Journal Editorials

The untapped potential of reproductive history in cardiovascular disease

With Henriette Nielsen and Sofie Bliddal Mortensen, Copenhagen Univ. Hospital, Copenhagen – Denmark

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Published on 24 January 2022

Atrial fibrillation and breast cancer: casual or causal relationship?

With Jose Luis Merino & Teresa Lopez Fernandez, La Paz Univ. Hospital, Madrid - Spain

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Published on 17 January 2022

Women and cardiac rehabilitation: Moving beyond barriers to solutions?

With Christi Deaton and Faye Forsyth, Univ. of Cambridge School - UK

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Published on 10 January 2022

Left ventricular performance by work and wasted energy: is strain not sufficient?

With Ole Jakob Sletten and Otto Smiseth, Oslo Univ. Hospital - Norway

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Published on 3 January 2022

Aortic valve calcification score utility extended to moderate aortic stenosis

With Magnus Back and Mohammed Hashem, Karolinska Univ. Hospital, Stockholm - Sweden

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Published on 20 December 2021

PCSK9 inhibition for acute arterial events: more than LDL lowering

With Carl Orringer and Jelani Grant, Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine - USA

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Published on 13 December 2021

When tissue and outcomes are the issue. Cardiac magnetic resonance for patients with suspected cardiac tumours

With Grigorios Korosoglou, Hospital Weinheim, Weinheim - Germany and Sorin Giusca, Univ. of Heidelberg Heidelberg - Germany

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Published on 6 December 2021

Immune checkpoint inhibitors and cardiovascular events among patients with cancer: a window into the critical role of the immune system in cardiovascular biology

With Lavanya Kondapalli, Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora - USA and Tomas Neilan, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston - USA

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Published on 29 November 2021

Investigating contrasting results in REDUCE-IT and STRENGTH: partial answers but questions remain

With Kevin C Maki, Indiana Univ. School of Public Health, Bloomington - USA and Carl E Orringer, Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami - USA

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Published on 22 November 2021

Impact of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: lessons from CONCEPTION

With Martha Gulati, Univ. of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix - USA and Anastasia Mihailidou, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney - Australia

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Published on 15 November 2021

Sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: time to change the narrative

With Perry Elliott, Univ. College London - UK and Alexandros Protonotarios, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science London - UK

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Published on 8 November 2021

Does early angiography pave the way for improved outcomes in patients with acute heart failure?

With Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Izmir - Turkey and Ahmet Celik, Mersin Univ. - Turkey

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Published on 1 November 2021

Pace and ablate better than drugs in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation: lessons from the APAF-CRT mortality trial

With Cecilia Linde, Karolinska Institute, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm - Sweden

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Published on 25 October 2021

Novel actors on the stage of cardiac dysfunction induced by anti-PD1 oncological treatments

With Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti and Alessandra Cuomo, Federico II Univ. Naples - Italy

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Published on 18 October 2021

Key roles of five lifestyle risk factors in the harmful transition from a healthy condition to multimorbidity in the Chinese population

With Dong Zhao and Jing Liu, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing - China

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Published on 11 October 2021

ESC Guidelines 2021 on valvular heart disease

With Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Univ. Heart Center Freiburg, Bad Krozingen - Germany and Alec Vahanian, Univ. Paris-Descartes, Paris - France

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Published on 6 October

First, do not harm

With Sharonne Hayes and Rajiv Gulati, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota - USA

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Published on 4 October 2021

ESC Guidelines 2021 on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy

With Michael Glikson, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem and Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Aarhus Univ. Hospital – Denmark.

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Published 29 September 2021

Decoding the link between heart failure and incident cancer

With Anju Nohria and Sanjay Divakaran, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston - USA

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Published on 27 September 2021

The endothelial niche in heart failure: from development to regeneration

With Stefanie Dimmeler and Julian Wagner - Univ. of Frankfurt - Germany

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Published on 20 September 2021

Initiation and management of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: history gone full circle

With Christian van der Werf, Amsterdam Univ. Medical Center - Netherlands and Pier Lambiase, Univ. College London, London - UK

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Published on 13 September 2021

Genome-wide association analysis in dilated cardiomyopathy reveals two new players in systolic heart failure on chromosomes 3p25.1 and 22q11.23

With Perry Elliott and Douglas Cannie, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, London - UK

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Published on 6 September 2021

Beat-to-beat variability occurs not only in atrial fibrillation: clinical value of dynamic assessment of the mitral and tricuspid annulus

With Roberto Lang and Karima Addetia, Univ. of Chicago Medicine, Chicago - USA

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Published on 19 July 2021

Optical coherence tomography and vulnerable plaque detection: how far are we willing to stray from true histology?

With Hector Garcia-Garcia, MedStar Washington Hospital Center - Washington, USA and Ronald Bass, Georgetown Univ., School of Medicine - Washington, USA

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Published on 12 July 2021

Redefining cardiovascular risk prediction: is the crystal ball clearer now?

With Lale Tokgozoglu, Hacettepe Univ. - Ankara, Turkey & Meral Kayikcioglu, Ege Univ. - Izmir, Turkey

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Published on 5 July 2021

Physical exercise is cardioprotective, but detrimental for the heart in high air pollution areas

With Thomas Muenzel and Omar Hahad, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg Univ. - Mainz, Germany

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Published on 28 June 2021

Can we turn heart failure into heart success by studying myocardial remission?

With Thomas Luescher, Senior Editor EHJ and Brian Halliday, National Heart and Lung Institute - London, UK

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Published on 21 June 2021

Decoding stroke risk scores in atrial fibrillation and CKD: still more work to do

With Ben Freedman and David Brieger, Sydney Medical School, Univ. of Sydney, Head Vascular Biology Anzac Research Institute - Australia

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Published on 14 June 2021

Childhood-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy research coming of age

With Juan Pablo Kaski and Gabrielle Norrish, Univ. College London - UK

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Published on 7 June 2021

Low sudden cardiac death risk in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: ‘A wolf in a lamb’s skin’?

With Nuno Cardim and Alexandra Toste, Hospital da Luz - Lisboa, Portugal

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Published on 31 May 2021

Silent brain infarcts and early cognitive outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

With Thomas Luescher, Senior Editor European Heart Journal and Brian Halliday, National Heart and Lung Institute - London, UK

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Published on 24 May 2021

Left atrial strain: evaluating left ventricular filling pressure from an upstream vantage point

With Frank Flachskampf and Tomasz Baron, Uppsala Univ. - Sweden

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Published on 17 May 2021

Alcohol consumption, cardiac biomarkers, and risk of atrial fibrillation and adverse outcomes

With Thomas Luescher, Senior Editor European Heart Journal and Brian Halliday, National Heart and Lung Institute - London, UK

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Published on 10 May 2021

C-reactive protein predicts outcome in COVID-19: is it also a therapeutic target?

With Mark Pepys and Floriaan Schmidt, Univ. of College London - UK

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Published on 3 May 2021

Heart failure, cognition, and brain damage

With Ulrich Laufs and Arno Villringer, Leipzig Univ. Hospital - Germany

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Published on 26 April 2021

A broken heart after child loss

With Kim Smolderen and Matthew Burg, Yale Univ., New Haven - USA

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Published on 19 April 2021

Predicted benefit of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: the MADIT-ICD benefit score

With Thomas Luescher, Senior Editor European Heart Journal and Brian Halliday, National Heart and Lung Institute - London, UK

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Published on 12 April 2021

Multisystem positron emission tomography: interrogating vascular inflammation, emotional stress, and bone marrow activity in a single scan

With Marc Dweck and Anna Barton, Univ. of Edinburgh - UK

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Published on 5 April 2021

Lifelong low Lp(a) levels: genetics give a green light?

With Samia Mora and Zareen Farukhi, Brigham and Women's Hospital - Boston, USA

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Published on 29 March 2021

What we (don’t) know about myocardial injury after COVID-19

With Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Bristol Heart Institute - Bristol, UK, Leslie Cooper, Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville, USA and Matthias Friedrich, McGill University Health Centre - Montreal, Canada

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Published on 22 March 2021

Heart failure and systolic function: time to leave diagnostics based on ejection fraction?

With Otto Smiseth and John Aalen, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet - Oslo, Norway

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Published on 15 March 2021

Heart failure drug treatment: the fantastic four

With Johann Bauersachs and Dominik Berliner, Hannover Medical School - Germany

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Published on 8 March 2021

Illuminating the path from genetics to clinical outcome in Brugada syndrome

With Connie Bezzina and Pieter Postema, Amsterdam UMC - Netherlands

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Published on 1 March 2021

MTMR4 SNVs modulate ion channel degradation and clinical severity in congenital long QT syndrome: insights in the mechanism of action of protective modifier genes

With Peter Schwartz and Luca Sala, Istituto Auxologico Italiano - Milan, Italy

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Published on 22 February2021

Changing the paradigm for post-MI cholesterol lowering from intensive statin monotherapy towards intensive lipid-lowering regimens and individualized care

With Kausik Ray and Julia Brandts, Imperial College London - UK

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Published on 15 February 2021

Noise and cardiovascular risk: nighttime aircraft noise acutely triggers cardiovascular death

With Thomas Muenzel and Omar Hahad, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg Univ. - Mainz, Germany

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Published on 8 February 2021

COVID-19 pandemic: complex interactions with the arrhythmic profile and the clinical course of patients with cardiovascular disease

With Giuseppe Boriani and Marco Vitolo, Univ. Hospital of Modena & Reggio Emilia - Italy

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Published on 1 February 2021

A fundamental principle of coronary pathophysiology for risk stratifying coronary artery disease

With Nils Johnson and Lance Gould, Univ. of Texas - Houston, USA

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Published on 25 January 2021

Are we underestimating the potential for cardiotoxicity related to immune checkpoint inhibitors?

With Tomas Neilan, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston - USA, Matthias Totzeck, Univ. Hospital Essen - Germany and Esther Lutgens, Amsterdam UMC - Netherlands

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Published on 12 January 2021

Secondary tricuspid regurgitation: neglected no more!

With Philipp Bartko, Gregor Heitzinger and Georg Goliasch, Medical Univ. of Vienna - Austria

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Published on 11 January 2021

Aspirin or P2Y12 inhibition: establishing the cornerstone of antiplatelet therapy after stenting

With Michelle O'Donoghue and Marc Sabatine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Boston, USA

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Published on 4 January 2021

Less dementia after catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: a nationwide cohort study

With Thomas Luescher, Senior Editor European Heart Journal and Brian Halliday, National Heart and Lung Institute - London, UK

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Published on 28 December 2020

Measure or predict prosthesis–patient mismatch?

With Luc Pierard and Raluca Dulgheru, Univ. Hospital of Liege - Belgium

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Published on 21 December 2020

The sooner, the better: anti-inflammation in acute myocardial infarction

With Thomas Luescher, Senior Editor European Heart Journal and Brian Halliday, National Heart and Lung Institute - London, UK

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Published on 14 December 2020

CD8 lymphocytes and plaque erosion: a new piece in the jigsaw

With Giovanna Liuzzo and Daniela Pedicino, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli - Italy

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Published on 7 December 2020

Non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants in adults with congenital heart disease: quod non?

With Werner Budts and Alexander Van De Bruaene, Univ. Hopistal Leuven - Belgium

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Published on 30 November 2020

Personalised medicine for dilated cardiomyopathy

With Perry Elliott and Mohammed Majid Akhtar, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science - London, UK

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Published on 23 November 2020

Sex differences among young individuals with myocardial infarction

With Marysia Tweet and Sharonne Hayes, Mayo Clinic Rochester - USA

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Published on 16 November 2020

Evaluating risk of dementia in older people: a pathway to personalised prevention?

With Andrew Sommerlad and Naaheed Mukadam, Univ. College London - UK

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Published on 9 November 2020

Global longitudinal strain in severe aortic stenosis

With Bernard Cosyns, Univ. Hospital Brussels - Belgium

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Published on 2 November 2020

Transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation in failed aortic bioprosthetic valves: a word of caution in times of euphoria

With Helmut Baumgartner and Gerhard-Paul Diller, Univ. Hospital Muenster - Germany

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Published on 26 October 2020

Defining circulating mononuclear cells in heart failure through single-cell RNA sequencing: new insights for an old disease

With Gianluigi Condorelli and Marinos Kallikourdis, Humanitas Univ. - Milan, Italy

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Published on 19 October 2020

Sex differences and the left ventricle: morphology matters

With C. Noel Bairey Merz and Janet Wei, Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre - Los Angeles, USA

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Published on 12 October 2020

Electro-mechanics or mechano-electrics, an intricate interplay - STANISLAS cohort insights

With Kristina Haugaa, Oslo Univ. Hospital - Norway and Ida Leren, Diakonhjemmet Hospital Oslo - Norway

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Published on 5 October 2020

A highly specific biomarker for Brugada syndrome. Too good to be true?

With Arthur Wilde and Ahmad Amin, Amsterdam Medical Center - Netherlands

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Published on 28 September 2020

Insights from physiology applied to interpretation of supranormal ejection fraction in women

With Peter Kerkhof, UMC Amsterdam - Netherlands and Neal Handly, Univ. College of Medicine Philadelphia - USA

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Published on 21 September 2020

Does atrial fibrillation affect the tricuspid annulus 3D geometry in patients without severe valve regurgitation?

With Luigi Badano, Milano Bicocca Univ. - Italy and Denisa Muraru, Milano Bicocca Univ. - Italy

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Published on 14 September 2020

Air pollution health impacts: the knowns and unknowns

With Tomasz Guzik, Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research - Thomas Muenzel, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg Univ. - Mainz, Germany and Jos Lelieveld, Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry - Mainz, Germany

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Published on 7 September 2020

Catheter ablation versus thoracoscopic surgical ablation in long standing persistent atrial fibrillation (CASA-AF) - A randomised control trial

With Lucas Boersma and Vincent van Dijk, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein - Netherlands

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Published on 31 August 2020

Edoxaban in atrial fibrillation patients with percutaneous coronary intervention by acute or chronic coronary syndrome presentation: a pre-specified analysis of the ENTRUST-AF PCI trial

With Renato Lopes, Duke Univ. Medical Center - USA and Alexander Fanaroff, Univ. of Pennsylvania - USA

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Published on 31 August 2020

The effect of intracoronary infusion of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells on all-cause mortality in acute myocardial infarction: The BAMI Trial

With Roberto Bolli and Christopher Fine, Univ. of Louisville - USA

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Published on 31 August 2020

Regression of left ventricular hypertrophy with SGLT2 inhibitors

With Francesco Paneni, Univ. of Zurich – Switzerland and Nazha Hamdani, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum – Germany

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Published on 16 August 2020

It’s time to personalise and optimise lipid-lowering therapy

With Oliver Weingartner, Univ. Hospital of Jena - Germany, Shailesh Patel, Univ. of Cincinnati - USA and Dieter Lütjohann, Univ. of Bonn - Germany

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Published on 4 August 2020

Sex differences in aortic dissection

With Kim Eagle and Nicole Bhave, Univ. of Michigan Medical School - USA

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Published on 20 July 2020

How COVID-19 lockdown impacts outcomes of patients with new onset AFib

With Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist and Elena Sciaraffia, Uppsala Univ. - Sweden

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Published on 6 July 2020

Comparing the 2019 and 2016 ESC/EAS dyslipidaemia guidelines

With Allan Sniderman, McGill Univ. - Canada

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Published on 22 June 2020

Revascularisation of ischaemic myocardium: still valuable in patients with stable CAD?

With Danilo Neglia and Riccardo Liga, Univ. of Pisa - Italy

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Published on 8 June 2020

The Metabolic Signature: An Emerging Paradigm in Cardiovascular Nutritional Research?

With Sanjay Sharma and Gemma Parry-Williams, St George's, Univ. of London - UK

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Published on 25 May 2020

Simple electrocardiographic measures improve sudden arrhythmic death prediction in coronary disease

With Brian Olshansky and Alexander Mazur, Univ. of Iowa - USA

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Pubilshed on 11 May 2020

Right Ventricular Dysfunction and Outcome: Aetiology Matters

With Marco Guazzi and Alessia Spina, Univ. of Milano - Italy

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Published on 28 April 2020

Cell type-specific expression of the putative SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in human hearts

With Stefanie Dimmeler and Andreas Zeiher, Goethe-Univ. - Germany

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Published on 15 April 2020

SARS-CoV2: Use of inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system in patients with COVID-19

With Gabriela Kuster and Qian Zhou, Univ. of Basel - Switzerland

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Published on 6 April 2020

Non-obstructive coronary artery disease can no longer be ignored

With Marc Dweck and David Newby, Univ. of Edinburgh - UK

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Published on 30 March 2020

Sex differences and higher upper normal limits for left atrial end-systolic volume in individuals in their mid-60s: data from the ACE 1950 Study

With Camilla Torlasco and Luigi Badano, Univ. of Milano-Bicocca - Italy

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Published on 16 March 2020

Vitamin K antagonists and osteoporotic fractures: insights from comparisons with the NOACs

With Doralisa Morrone and Raffaele De Caterina, Univ. of Pisa - Italy

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Published on 2 March 2020

Secondary prevention medications after coronary artery bypass grafting and long-term survival: A population-based longitudinal study from the SWEDEHEART registry

With Bernard Gersh and Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Mayo Clinic - USA

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Published on 17 February 2020

Does type 2 diabetes confer higher relative rates of cardiovascular events in women compared with men?

With Naveed Sattar and Lyn Ferguson, Univ. of Glasgow - UK

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Published on 3 February 2020

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in previously undiagnosed patients with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia resuscitated from sudden cardiac arrest

With Pier Lambiase and Sherry Honarbakhsh, Barts Health NHS Trust - London, UK

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Published on 20 January 2020

A population-based study of cardiovascular disease mortality risk in US cancer patients

With Joerg Herrmann and Kathryn Ruddy, Mayo Clinic - Rochester, USA

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Published on 6 January 2020

Short-term e-cigarette vapour exposure causes vascular oxidative stress and dysfunction

With Tomasz Guzik, Univ. of Glasgow - UK and David Harrison, Vanderbilt Univ. - Nashville, USA

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Published on 16 December 2019

Cardiovascular effect of discontinuing statins for primary prevention at the age of 75 years: a nationwide population-based cohort study in France

With Chris Cannon, Brigham and Women's Hospital - Boston, USA and Ulrich Laufs, Leipzig Univ. - Germany

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Published on 2 December 2019

The association between the public reporting of individual operator outcomes with patient profiles, procedural management, and mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention: an observational study from the Pan-London PCI (BCIS) Registry using an interrupted time series analysis

With Morton Kern and Arnold Seto, Univ. of California - Irvine, USA

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Published on 18 November 2019

Sudden death in cardiac sarcoidosis: an analysis of nationwide clinical and cause-of-death registries

With Perry Elliott and Douglas Cannie, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science - London, UK

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Published on 4 November 2019

A new opening on aortic stenosis: predicting prognosis with clonal hematopoiesis

With Peter Libby, Amy Lin, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School - USA and Benjamin Levine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - USA

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Published on 22 October 2019

Periodontitis and hypertension: causally linked by immune mechanisms

With Ernesto Schiffrin McGill, Univ. of Montreal - Canada and Stefano Taddei, Univ. of Pisa - Italy

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Published on 14 October 2019

Promoting physical activity in primary and secondary prevention

With Carl Chip Lavie, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute - New Orleans, USA and Sergey Kachur, Univ. of Illinois - Chicago, USA

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Published on 30 September 2019

Development and validation of a multivariable prediction model for major adverse cardiovascular events after early stage breast cancer

With Thomas Luescher, Univ. of Zurich – Switzerland and Alexander Lyon, Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital - UK

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Published on 16 September 2019

Thromboembolic events around the time of cardioversion for atrial fibrillation

With Freek Verheugt, Heartcenter, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG) - Netherlands

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Published on 9 September 2019

Defining high bleeding risk in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

With Morton Kern and Arnold Seto, Univ. of California - Irvine, USA

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Published on 26 August 2019

Transcatheter heart valve migration and embolization: rare and preventable?

Wtih Ronald Binder and Michael Porodko, Univ. Teaching Hospital Klinikum Wels - Austria

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Published on 19 August 2019

Measuring coronary microvascular function: is it finally ready for prime time?

With Adrian Banning and Giovanni Luigi De Maria, Oxford Univ. Hospitals - UK

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Published on 12 August 2019

Longevity-associated variant BPIFB4 gene transfer to recapitulate healthy ageing in patients at risk: is the future around the corner?

With Giovanni Camici and Luca Liberale, Center for Molecular Cardiology, Univ. of Zurich - Switzerland

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Published on 5 August 2019

PCSK9 inhibitors: what we know, what we should have understood, and what is to come

With Marc Sabatine and Robert Giugliano, Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Boston, USA

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Published on 31 July 2019

Continuous anticoagulation with catheter ablation: answers and questions

With Christopher Granger and Sean Pokorney, Duke Univ. Medical Center - USA

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Published on 22 July 2019

Cardiac arrest in takotsubo syndrome: results from the InterTAK Registry

With Thomas Luescher, Editor in Chief - European Heart Journal and Allan Davies, International Associate Editor - European Heart Journal

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Published on 16 July 2019

Transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation: a melody to follow

With Lars Sondergaard and Michael Rahbek Schmidt, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen - Denmark

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Published on 8 July 2019

Frequency, predictors, and prognosis of ejection fraction improvement in heart failure: an echocardiogram-based registry study

With Sanjay Prasad and Daniel J. Hammersley, Royal Brompton Hospital - UK

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Published on 1 July 2019

The future of functional mitral regurgitation treatment

With Patrick Myers and Piergiorgio Tozzi, Lausanne Univ. Hospital - Switzerland

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Published on 24 June 2019

Left ventricular non-compaction: have we reached the limits of conventional imaging?

With Perry Elliott and Alexandros Protonotarios, Univ. College London - UK

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Published on 17 June 2019

Impact of Preoperative FFR on Arterial Bypass Graft Anastomotic Function: the IMPAG trial

With Morton Kern and Arnold Seto, Univ. of California, Irvine - USA

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Published on 10 June 2019

Targeting RNA to lower triglycerides: long strides from short molecules

With Deepak Bhatt and Peter Libby, Brigham and Women's Hospital - USA and Harvard Medical School - USA

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Published on 3 June 2019

Blood pressure target in diabetics: how low is too low?

With Jay Mehta and Marwan Saad, Univ. Arkansas for Medical Sciences - USA

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Published on 29 April 2019

Cardiovascular Disease and Uric Acid?

With Franz Messerli, Univ. of Bern - Switzerland and Michel Burnier, Univ. Hospital of Lausanne - Switzerland

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Published on 23 April 2019

How to target vascular inflammation in the post-CANTOS era?

With Tomasz Guzik, Univ. of Glasgow - UK, Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research and Pasquale Maffia, Univ. of Glasgow - UK, Deputy Editor of Cardiovascular Research

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Published on 15 April 2019

Atrial fibrillation, with ACS and PCI: walking a tightrope

With Roxana Mehran, Icahn School of Medicine - Mount Sinai and Dominick Angiolillo, Univ. of Florida College of Medicine - USA

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Published on 9 April 2019

Congress highlights

From ESC Congress

Results of the European Infective Endocarditis registry (ESC-EORP EURO-ENDO)

With Thomas Luescher, Univ. Zurich - Switzerland and Stephan Windecker, Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern – Switzerland

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Published on 4 September 2019

Is perivascular fat a new cardiovascular risk factor? Results of SCOT-HEART

With Stephan Achenbach, Univ. of Erlangen - Germany and Victoria Delgado, Leiden Univ. Medical Center - Netherlands

Published on 4 September 2019

DANAMI-2 - 16-year follow-up of the Danish Acute Myocardial Infarction 2 trial - Primary percutaneous coronary intervention versus fibrinolysis in ST-elevation myocardial infarction

With Borja Ibanez, Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research - Spain and Allan Davies, Hunter New England Health - Australia

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Published on 3 September 2019

Residual inflammatory risk associated with interleukin-18 and interleukin-6

With Thomas Luescher, Univ. Zurich - Switzerland, Filippo Crea and Luigi Biasucci, Catholic Univ. of the Sacred Heart - Italy

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Published on 3 September 2019

The relation between systemic inflammation and incident cancer in patients with stable cardiovascular disease, a cohort study

With Peter Libby and Paul Ridker, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School - USA

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Published on 2 September 2019

Estimating individual lifetime benefit and bleeding risk of adding rivaroxaban to aspirin for patients with stable cardiovascular disease: results from the COMPASS trial

With Roxana Mehran, The Mount Sinai Hospital - USA, Jan Steffel, Univ. Hospital Zurich - Switzerland and Diana Gorog, Univ. of Hertfordshire – UK

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Published on 1 September 2019