When economic security is the sole driver, health equity remains a defensible and responsible aspiration. If health is the ...

BACKGROUND: Whether cannabis is a risk factor for cardiovascular events is unknown. We examined the association between smoking cannabis and cardiovascular events in a cohort of older veterans (66 to ...

The era of predictive modeling enhanced with machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to aid clinical ...

BACKGROUND: Vascular aging is an important phenotype characterized by structural and geometric remodeling. Some individuals exhibit supernormal vascular aging, associated with improved cardiovascular ...

A classification is presented of anomalies involving the coronary sinus. These anomalies are classified into four anatomic groups on the basis of (1) enlargement of the coronary sinus, (2) absence of ...

One hundred ten cases of T waves more than 10 mm in height in the precordial leads were studied. The T waves were wide in ischemic heart disease and thin and peaked in uremia. Marked changes in the ...

A short A-V conduction time, whether present with normal or with abnormal QRS complex, is associated with an increased incidence of paroxysmal rapid heart action. There are a considerable number of ...

BACKGROUND: Fontan circulatory failure (FCF) is a chronic state in palliated single ventricle heart disease with high morbidity and mortality rates, including heart failure, multisystem end-organ ...

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BACKGROUND: Evaluation of whether dyspnea has a cardiac cause is essential. Guidelines from 2016 were reported to result in a high incidence of indeterminate left ventricular (LV) filling pressure. We ...

In the thrombogenic theory of the pathogenesis of arteriosclerotic lesions, parietal fibrin deposits in the arteries play a primary role. In an effort to elucidate the hemostatic system in the ...