2004, Volume 11, Issue 02, pages 81-168

Cardiac rehabilitation offers physical, psychological and survival benefits for patients recovering from cardiac illness. This questionnaire survey of all known cardiac rehabilitation units in the...

There is a widespread lack of awareness amongst the British public of the link between myocardial infarction and stroke, and about secondary...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest sustained arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice. Depending upon its time course, AF can be classified into three categories: paroxysmal,...

The efficacy and safety of once- or twice-daily immediate-release (IR) fluvastatin 40 mg were compared with those of the extended-release (XL) formulation of fluvastatin 80...

One of the main targets of current research in cardiology is a diagnostic modality able not only to identify vulnerable atherosclerotic lesions but also to...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is set to double over the next 25 years, leading to substantial morbidity and mortality, particularly from macrovascular diabetic...

Recent trials have broadened the evidence base for statin use. It has now been documented that these drugs are effective agents not only in the...

Treatment to reduce blood pressure is effective in preventing and slowing the progression of the vascular complications of diabetes. Recent studies have suggested that use...

The British Hypertension Society (BHS) has recently published its latest guidance for the management of hypertension, BHS-IV.1,2 This article summarises these recommendations and discusses the...

This is the final article in a series examining how the Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative (CHDC) supports clinical teams to improve services for coronary heart...

Statins are currently provided at NHS expense for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), diabetes and those whose coronary risk is greater than 3% per...

The difficulty in delivering a viable primary prevention policy has been evident ever since the publication of the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease...