Background Hypertension is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, dementia and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Objective To develop and validate a 10-year predictive model for cardiovascular and metabolic disease (CVMD) risk using ...

Introduction Atrial fibrosis identified on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has been proposed as a preprocedural ...

Background Left ventricular mass (LVM) is suggested to be a sensitive predictor of adverse cardiovascular outcomes, such as ...

Background Eisenmenger syndrome (ES) is a severe and fatal complication of uncorrected congenital heart disease characterised ...

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, ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and CT imaging plays a crucial role in its diagnosis and management. However, the clinical use of CT is ...

Background Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite significant improvements in the management of HF, the overall outcome remains poor. In addition to ...

Background Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has significantly improved outcomes for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. However, the long-term durability of ...

Introduction European valvular heart disease guidelines define women as a ‘special group’. To explore what factors have led us to consider more than 50% of the global population special, we assessed ...

Objective To evaluate the association between β-blocker use and all-cause mortality in a real-world cohort of patients with myocardial infarction (MI). Methods This study included 2308 patients with ...