Background Chronic heart failure (HF) is a growing global health challenge. People with HF
experience substantial burden that includes low exercise tolerance, poor health‐related …

It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced and tested in the …

Heart Failure Society (JHFS). The working committee for this project includes members and
collaborators involved in the previous versions of the heart failure guidelines and members …

Background We sought to provide a contemporary picture of the presentation, etiology, and
outcome of infective endocarditis (IE) in a large patient cohort from multiple locations …

Objective: Discrimination is posited to underlie racial disparities in hypertension. Extant
literature suggests a possible association between racial discrimination and blood pressure …

Heart disease was an uncommon cause of death in the US at the beginning of the 20th
century. By mid-century it had become the commonest cause. After peaking in the mid …

Acute ischemic stroke is the third leading cause of death in industrialized countries and the
most frequent cause of permanent disability in adults worldwide. Despite advances in the …

The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of clinical disorders including an unhealthy body
habitus with a large waistline, dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance and hypertension. It is …

Heart disease is one of the first causes of death worldwide. This paper presents a real-time
system for predicting heart disease from medical data streams that describe a patient's …

The National High Blood Pressure Education Program presents the complete Seventh
Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment …