2005, Volume 12, Issue 06, pages 405-476

This study evaluated primary care hypertension management against UK quality targets and prescribing guidelines through a survey of 738 hypertensives in an urban three-partner personal...

How well do primary care teams identify patients with CHD and diabetes? The British Women’s Heart and Health Study, a prospective cohort study, suggests that...

Myocardial calcification is a rare finding usually detected by computerised tomographic (CT) scanning. It is often missed and, when found, is often misdiagnosed. The addition...

Inequalities in health care between men and women have been described extensively with regard to access to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. These inequalities affect coronary...

There is no evidence from randomised controlled trials to guide oxygen treatment after stroke. This survey aims to establish a snapshot of views of clinicians...

The mainstay of heart failure management is angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy initially as a vasodilator, followed by beta blockade at a varying time interval, based...

In spite of treatment with inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system, plasma levels of aldosterone increase progressively in heart failure. This phenomenon of aldosterone escape is...

Patients attending cardiology clinics, particularly those with chronic heart failure (CHF), frequently have co-morbidities and attend other hospital medical clinics. We examined the case notes...

We continue our series where Consultant Interventionist Dr Michael Norell takes a sideways look at life in the cath lab ..... and beyond. In this...

Submissions are in and now the real lobbying can begin. Scarcely a year after the implementation of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) of the...

As an organisation we are delighted that, as from this issue, The British Journal of Cardiology will become the official journal of the Scottish Heart...