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Heart is a medical journal that is reviewed by peers every two weeks, focusing on all aspects of cardiovascular medicine and surgery. It serves as the official publication of the British Cardiovascular Society. Originally launched in 1939 under the name British Heart Journal, it was renamed Heart in 1996 when volume 75 began. The journal is published by the BMJ Group.

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Missed opportunities to manage complex comorbidity of heart failure, type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease: a retrospective cohort study

1 month ago | heart.bmj.com | Mohamed Mohamed |Ashkan Dashtban |Sarah Ali |Thomas Oates

DiscussionIn this large, population-based study of simple, evidence-based management for disease pairs across T2D, CKD and HF, we have four findings. First, despite a high comorbidity burden and mortality risk for diseases individually and in combination, major gaps in prevention medications exist. Second, up to half of individuals lacked evidence of BMI or lipid measurement in the past year, with the CKD+HF group most severely affected.
Mortality associated with moderate and severe mitral regurgitation in 608 570 men and women undergoing echocardiography

2 months ago | heart.bmj.com | David Playford |Simon Stewart |Sarah Harris |Gregory Scalia

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Circulating bone morphogenetic protein 10 as a novel marker of atrial stress and remodelling in heart failure

2 months ago | heart.bmj.com | Valentina Bracun |Adriaan A. Voors |Serge Masson |Peter Kastner

To compare patients with low, medium and high BMP10 concentrations, patients were divided into tertiles based on their BMP10 concentrations. Normally distributed variables are presented as means (SD), whereas non-normally distributed variables are presented as medians (quartiles) and categorical variables as percentages.
Age-stratified comparison of heart age and predicted cardiovascular risk in 370 000 primary care patients

2 months ago | heart.bmj.com | Kathrine Stjernholm |Andrew Kerr |Katrina K Poppe |anders jensen

DiscussionTo our knowledge, this is the first study to have systematically compared predicted short-term CVD risk and heart age gaps in a contemporary primary care population. The study demonstrates that these two metrics trend in opposite directions with increasing age and therefore reflect quite different dimensions of CVD risk.
Cost-effectiveness of digoxin versus beta blockers in permanent atrial fibrillation: the Rate Control Therapy Evaluation in Permanent Atrial Fibrillation (RATE-AF) randomised trial

Jan 16, 2025 | heart.bmj.com | Zainab Abdali |Karina V. Bunting |Samir Mehta |John Camm

MethodsThe clinical trial design, protocol and outcomes have previously been published.4 8 In brief, RATE-AF was a pragmatic, NHS-embedded, open-label, blinded, endpoint RCT in patients with permanent AF and symptoms of heart failure in need of heart rate control. All participants provided written informed consent after review of participant information material created by the PPI team.
Relationship between left ventricular shape and cardiovascular risk factors: comparison between the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and UK Biobank

Jan 16, 2025 | heart.bmj.com | Avan Suinesiaputra |Kathleen McGuire Gilbert |David A. Bluemke |Charlene Mauger

Risk FactorsCohort StudiesMagnetic Resonance ImagingData availability statementData may be obtained from a third party and are not publicly available. The MESA CMR images and their clinical and demographic data used in this study are available on request to the MESA Coordinating Centre at[https://www.mesa-nhlbi.org]. The UK Biobank CMR images and their clinical and demographic data used in this study are available on request to the UK Biobank at [https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk].
Association of weight change with cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in obese participants with cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study

Jan 16, 2025 | heart.bmj.com | Jufen Zhang |Rudolph Schutte |Barbara Pierscionek |Anglia Ruskin

AbstractBackground Studies have examined the association between weight change and risk of cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in the general population. However, very few literature reported the association among obese people with established CV disease (CVD) and the factors associated with weight change are not clear. We sought to investigate this using the UK Biobank data.
Updating the Scottish national cardiovascular risk score: ASSIGN version 2.0

Jan 16, 2025 | heart.bmj.com | Paul Welsh |Dorien M Kimenai |Mark Woodward

AbstractBackground The Assessing cardiovascular risk using Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (ASSIGN) risk score, developed in 2006, is used in Scotland for estimating the 10-year risk of first atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Rates of ASCVD are decreasing, and an update is required. This study aimed to recalibrate ASSIGN (V.2.0) using contemporary data and to compare recalibration with other potential approaches for updating the risk score.
Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries: a journey beyond angiography

Jan 16, 2025 | heart.bmj.com | Giovanni Occhipinti |Salvatore Brugaletta |Universitat de Barcelona

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Exploring cardiovascular involvement in IgG4-related disease: a case series approach with cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Jan 13, 2025 | heart.bmj.com | John Henry |Roshan Xavier |Emmanuel Anandraj Selvaraj |Matthew Burrage

ELC and AL are joint senior authors. X @johnaaronhenry, @@cardiolewisContributors AL and ELC conceptualised and designed the study. Data were collected by JAH, RX, ES, MB and KET. Data analysis was conducted by JAH, RX, KET, EL, QZ, VMF, SKP, and AL. NS, VMF, SKP, OR, SN, AL and ELC contributed to data interpretation. The manuscript was written by JAH. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version. AL is the guarantor.