2009, Volume 16, Issue 06, pages 257-304

Although patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) share key pathophysiological mechanisms, they present with diverse clinical, electrocardiographic and enzyme characteristics and experience a wide range...

Fat around the heart— known as pericardial fat— may be a better predictor of future heart disease than either body mass index (BMI) or waist...

The Framingham and UKPDS (United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study) risk equations overestimate the probability of cardiovascular events in people with type 2 diabetes, according to...

A new stethoscope – the Littmann 3200 – is now available which is the first to enable Bluetooth transfer of sounds to software for storage...

Conventional cooling methods can improve survival and reduce neurologic injury after cardiac arrest, a new Cochrane Review...

A new drug, lorcaserin, showed good weight loss results without the valvular side-effects associated with some other serotonin type agents in the Phase III Blossom...

N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a “remarkable predictor” of incident atrial fibrillation (AF), even after adjustment for other known risk factors, according to the...

New analyses of data from ECASS 3 (Third European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study) suggest that the thrombolytic, tPA (alteplase) has benefits in the treatment of...

Extending clopidogrel treatment from one to two years after drug-eluting stent placement is associated with a reduction in very late thromboses, new registry data suggest....

The use of niacin was associated with a regression of atherosclerotic plaque in a new imaging...

Seven million in UK have prediabetes An estimated seven million people in the UK have prediabetes (or impaired glucose regulation), according to Diabetes UK. The...

The Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2009 meeting was held in San Francisco, USA, from September 22nd –...

Colin Doig and Henry Purcell report highlights from the recent Cardiology at the Limits meeting held in Cape Town, South...

‘Making change happen’ was the theme of the 12th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) in Nottingham on 1st – 3rd...

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

The term pharmaceutical salt is used to refer to an ionisable drug that has been combined with a counter-ion to form a neutral complex. Converting...

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a condition that is frequently underdiagnosed and often the subject of suboptimal care. It can present with rest pain or...

The multi-disciplinary approach provides a forum for peer review of angiographic data. We aimed to examine the outcomes of our multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings in...

The treatment of raised cholesterol has advanced significantly in the last 25 years: fibrates, statins, bile acid sequestrants, ezetimibe, and more. In October 2007, colesevelam...

We undertook a seven-year in-depth review of all reported obituaries of medical practitioners in the BMJ to assess the age and disease distribution of mortality...