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Respiratory and Cardiovascular Medicine
School based education programme to reduce salt intake in children and their families
Graham A MacGregor discusses whether an education programme targeted at schoolchildren could lower salt intake in children and…
Cryoablation or Drug Therapy for Initial Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Jason Andrade discusses the lower rate of atrial fibrillation recurrence found with catheter cryoballoon ablation than with antiarrhythmic drug therapy
Inhaled Treprostinil in Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Interstitial Lung Disease
Aaron Waxman discusses research into patients with pulmonary hypertension due to interstitial lung disease and the effects of…
Reappraisal of Ischemic Heart Disease
In recent years, it has become apparent that coronary microvascular dysfunction plays a pivotal pathogenic role in angina…
Percutaneous coronary intervention in stable angina (ORBITA)
Symptomatic relief is the primary goal of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in stable angina and is commonly observed…
Will New Anti-eosinophilic Drugs Be Useful in Asthma Management?
Recently there has been great interest in the development of precision medicines that target a specific underlying disease…
Targeting cytokines to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Cytokines play a key role in orchestrating and perpetuating the chronic airway inflammation in asthma and chronic obstructive…
Restoring the resting potential brings maturity to induced stem cell-derived human cardiac myocytes
Reprogramming of mature human cells to produce the equivalent of embryonic stem cells offers exciting possibilities for therapeutic…
Role of sodium/calcium exchange in heart failure-induced arrhythmias
Sudden death from ventricular arrhythmias is an important source of mortality in patients with congestive heart failure. Rapid…
Mechanisms of calcium transient and action potential alternans in cardiac cells and tissues
Alternation of cardiac action potential duration (APD) from beat to beat and concurrent alternation of the amplitude of…
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