Sneaking cigarettes might seem like a harmless preteen rite of passage, but it's more dangerous than you think, a new study ...

Persistent smoking from age 10 through 24 years is associated with increased odds of premature cardiac and structural injury.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a prevalent inherited cardiac disease marked by left ventricular hypertrophy, often due ...

The court heard she had not taken her epilepsy medication on the day of her death and had been found on the floor at about 20 ...

Background: Atrial function is an integral part of cardiac function that is often neglected. The presence of left ventricule hypertrophy (LVH) due to arterial hypertension may impair atrial function.

ECG plays an important role in detection of several stroke risk factors/predictors including atrial fibrillation and left ventricular hypertrophy; both are components of the Framingham Stroke Risk ...

and calcium channel blockers are used in selected patients to decrease left ventricular hypertrophy. To decrease myocardial fibrosis, aldosterone antagonists have a potential therapeutic role.

Professor Xavier Palomer points out that “together, all these processes lead to extracellular cardiac remodelling, ...

Aerosolized vascular endothelial growth factor/stromal cell-derived factor-1α (VEGFNP/SDFNP) led to a lower pulmonary arterial pressure and prevented right ventricular hypertrophy after monocrotaline ...

Still there is limited data on BP in elite athletes. Objective To describe blood pressure, prevalence of hypertension and subclinical organ damage (left ventricular hypertrophy) in elite athletes.