is an open access journal by BMJ and BCS, publishing original research in cardiovascular medicine. Open Heart considers submissions of a variety of article types, including original research articles, ...
Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but its relationship with ...
Background We characterised seasonal patterns in cardiovascular (CV) mortality and hospitalisations to understand how CV health might be affected by climate change. Methods We analysed the UK Biobank ...
Background Up to 30% of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have the myocardial bridge (MB) mainly in the left anterior ...
Twenty years ago, writing from India, one of us described distrust as a ‘third burden’ confronting medicine. Alongside ...
Background Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young adults and athletes. It is ...
Background Discharge N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a recognised prognostic marker after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), but its value after surgical aortic ...
Objective Gene therapies are increasingly being developed and evaluated to treat complex diseases with multiple genetic causes, including cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, these studies have ...
Background Fractional flow reserve derived from CT (FFR-CT) enables non-invasive functional assessment of coronary stenoses in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease, but evidence ...
Objective To investigate whether aligning exercise timing with chronotype enhances cardiometabolic and sleep-related benefits in sedentary adults with cardiovascular risk factors. Methods In this ...
Background The benefits of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) compared with conventional approaches (CMVS, conventional mitral valve surgery) remain controversial. We conducted a ...
Background The specific relationship between different blood pressure measures and the risk of aortic aneurysms (AA) remains unclear. Elucidating these associations would be conducive to identifying ...