The present study was a retrospective observational study based on a nationwide Japanese administrative case‐mix Diagnostic Procedure Combination (DPC) database, the Japanese Registry of All Cardiac ...

Environmental toxicants and pollutants are causes of adverse health consequences, including well-established associations between environmental exposures and cardiovascular diseases. Environmental ...

BACKGROUND: Evaluation of whether dyspnea has a cardiac cause is essential. Guidelines from 2016 were reported to result in a ...

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology. An official, Open Access journal of the American Heart Association and the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology ...

While significant progress has been made in reducing disparities within the US health care system, notable gaps remain. This article explores existing disparities within pediatric congenital heart ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is now defined as mean pulmonary artery pressure >20 mm Hg according to the updated clinical classification from the 6th World Symposium of Pulmonary Hypertension (WSPH) ...

Chronic coronary disease (CCD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. There is an ongoing imperative to disseminate evidence-based and patient-centered care recommendations that further ...

Cardiogenic shock (CS) is characterized by a low cardiac output state, which results in inadequate organ perfusion and tissue hypoxia. Despite recent advances in therapeutic strategies, the prognosis ...

BACKGROUND: Integrative multiomics can elucidate pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) pathobiology, but procuring human PAH lung samples is rare. METHODS: We leveraged transcriptomic profiling and ...

BACKGROUND: Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as one of the best tools for cardiac gene delivery due to its cardiotropism, long-term expression, and safety. However, a significant challenge to ...

Albuminuria, the excretion of higher than normal amounts of the protein albumin in the urine (>30 mg/L), is also a risk factor for CVD and incident chronic kidney disease (CKD). 5 Albuminuria is seen ...

Heart failure (HF) is responsible for substantial morbidity among the estimated 6 million affected adults in the United States. 1 For HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), optimal ...